Tag: BBC London
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Writing about WW2 – a British obsession.
Writing about World War 2 is not for the faint-hearted as most of the British have a fixed view and may have heard the stories handed down from their parents. The battle with the Nazis appears to being rerun nightly in the form of military documentaries on TV. The wartime leader Churchill’s home is still…
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The college principal who was key in the development of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The original idea underlying the story of an unlucky boy in One Year One Night by SL Roman came through a few key individuals. They included the principal of Strode’s College in Egham Dr Frank Botham. Frank was very keen on media in general and ran a college with a number of courses in the…
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One Year One Night by SL Roman now available in North America and elsewhere on digital platforms including Audible.
Fans of listening to stories can hear the young adult novel read by actresss Laura Castiel. The wartime story of an unlucky boy which first appeared in print was the brainchild of Laura Meloni Bywaters and Sarah Onions. They chose the pen name of SL Roman to reflect Laura’s home city, Rome. It was published…
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The role of the iconic city Brighton in the creation of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The seaside town of Brighton on the English Channel was the birthplace of the original unlucky boy whose story was used in the novel One Year One Night. Ken Carter was born in 1929 so when war came to Britain in 1939 he was due to be evacuated out of the coastal firing line to…
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Sending the children away – how the British coped with evacuation – in One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The effect of evacuation often lasted for a lifetime – some children were lucky and the British film director Bryan Forbes later wrote happily of his experience of leaving a working class background in East London and staying with a professor and his wife in picturesque Cornwall in the west ofEngland.But one boy Sarah and…
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Living underground in 1940 – the background to One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The British had to get used to living below the surface in the first year of war. Many householders bought Anderson shelters which could be built in the garden and meant a whole family could hide down below when the German bombers arrived overhead. The shelters were damp and smelly and often people refused to…
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Our novel One Year One Night is being distributed to libraries across North America.
One Year One Night by SL Roman has been published by Red Chair Press and has been on sale since August 1. Its distributor in the U.S. and Canada is Lerner Distribution and its ideas can be seen in its blog. http://lernerbooks.blog Red Chair also uses other distributors – often supplying books to readers using…
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How hardship hit the characters in the award-winning adult fiction One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The wartime years in the first novel by SL Roman saw the British face shortages and rationing of food. No food could be bought without the card unless it was ‘under the counter’. Food is a preoccupation for our heroine Annie from the start and she oftens refers to a tiny piece of meat at…
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The Surrey source of the idea for award-winning novel One Year One Night by SL Roman.
One half of SL Roman – Sarah Onions heard a story of an unlucky boy who was killed in WW2 when she was teaching at Strode’s College in Egham in southern England. All teachers are aware that the students always seem to know what’s happening before anyone else and her classes knew the story of…
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Millside – a village in southern England created out of nowhere by the writers of One Year One Night.
Once the writers of One Year One Night by SL Roman decided to turn the tale of the original unlucky boy into a novel, there were new decisions to make. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters, writing under the pen name of SL Roman had to establish a village in their minds where the lively…
One Year One Night - SL Roman. 