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Writers Awards
Janet has been longlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for 2008, for the Tea Planter's Lass, awarded by the Romantic Novelists Association
Launch of A Handful of Stars Stirs up memories of fascism in 1930s Tyneside.
Janet and husband Graeme gave dramatic readings from A Handful of Stars at the paperback launch at Waterstones in Newcastle. Graeme, taking his role as the fascist Vinne seriously, whipped off his jacket to reveal a blackshirt to the shocked gasps of the audience!
Janet also met up with one of her readers who had witnessed Blackshirt violence in South Shields in the 1930s. Joan Richardson had been pushed into a doorway for safety by her father to avoid a street fight between Mosley's fascists and their pursuers. Janet's new novel has prompted several members of the public to get in touch with their memories of those troubled times.
  
 
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Janet has been giving talks and doing signings around the region.
Her talk at Whitburn Library was the opening event of this year's Whitburn Festival where she was given a warm welcome by staff and readers despite the wet and windy summer's day!
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New Novel:
The Tea Planter's Lass
Janet's latest book is now available in hardback by Headline.
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Handful of Stars
"A Handful of Stars" is now
available in hardback, large print and audio.
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Beatles and Chiefs
Featured on BBC Home Truths, Beatles and Chiefs is Janet’s
delightful memoir of a Beatle-mad, ex-pat Scot growing up
in the north-east of England in the 1960s, and of the MacLeod
family’s annual pilgrimage back to the Isle of Skye.
For more information about this book click on book cover
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Contact
Janet by e-mail:
janet@janetmacleodtrotter.com
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