Auteur: Francesca Brooks

It was from this unique Island city that Richard the Lionheart set out on his Crusades and Horatio Nelson sailed to meet his destiny at the Battle of Trafalgar. More recently, Portsmouth played a key …

The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a …

Growing Pains is the second book in a series of memoirs about growing up in the city of Portsmouth after World War Two. We join George in 1954, when Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile barrie …

George East’s Portsmouth-born ancestors fought at the battles of Trafalgar, Sebastapol and in both World Wars. Our hero fought most of his teenage battles on the streets of his beloved city. This tal …

In a new book, a Hayling Island author has ‘spilled the beans’ about running a beach kiosk. Life’s a Beach tells the story of a woman recovering from a failed marriage and business who arrives in a s …