Author Description

This is an eclectic and supernal collection of stories and articles by all the current members of the Verwood u3a Writers Circle, published for your delectation and delight. Contributors Viv Gough, Helen Griffith, Ted Mason, Jan Mills, Alan Pearce, Barbara Shea, Carol Waterkeyn, Lesley Watts and Tony Wilson have brought together their combined skills across a range of genres - writing which will inform, amuse, perhaps entrance and sometimes astonish. There are subjects such as International Misunderstanding, trouser trickery, a divorce that wasn't, a snowman that fought back and won, a white van man who got his comeuppance, a boy and a lobster, a curious court case, a cougar in action in error, a cosmopolitan put-down, dolls dancing in the night, arresting the Governor of the Bank of England, the Dunkirk evacuation, hiding in the wardrobe, WW1 reminiscences and a slowly bumped-off choir. There is something for everybody herein. And since all the entries are of fewer than 800 words it is a tome which you can just dip into whenever you feel like it: at the airport, at the railway station, but not, obviously, at the wheel of a car. These pieces are indubitably the best thing since the best thing since sliced bread - as Otto Rohwedder would have said, were he still with us. In short, a remarkable compendium which ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous! Must read!