Margaret Skea
About me
Fascinated by Scotland’s turbulent history, and in particular the 16th century, I’ve just finished my first novel which was the Historical Fiction Winner in the 2011 Harper Collins / Alan Titchmarsh People’s Novelist Competition. Published on 22nd November 2012 by Capercaillie Books, it is available via any bookshop and online stores.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Tide-Margaret-Skea/dp/1909305065/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354089317&sr=1-1
An Hawthornden Fellow and award winning short story writer, I live with my husband in the Scottish Borders.
From my website
Turn of the Tide has just been nominated in the People’s Book Prize – public voting – so please can I ask folk to vote http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/section.php?id=6 (TotT is at the bottom of page 1 of fiction) and if you can share / tweet or otherwise spread the word, I’d be…
Summer Banquet Blog Hop – Attempt 3!!
When I signed up for the Summer Banquet Blog Hop some time ago, I had no idea what I might write about. But like most of my musings this post sprang from a snippet I heard recently on the radio about a showbiz wedding that cost a staggering $10,000,000 Not…
Fruit and Vegetables – why they aren’t as healthy as they were a few hundred years ago!
This fascinating article (most of the articles I find to post links to here ARE fascinating, so I’m not apologizing for using the word) sheds some insights into how, and perhaps why, our food today isn’t as healthy as it once was. It’s no surprise that our ‘sweet tooth’, which…