©Calyx Picture Agency Swindon Festival of literature Alison Bruce
©Calyx Picture Agency Swindon Festival of literature Alison Bruce
©Calyx Alison Lansdown with car
It all for started in Swindon’s Town Hall for Alison Bruce – then Lansdown – at a film-writing course.
“I like the idea, but you need to write a book first,” was the tutor’s instructions.
So Alison went away and wrote her third book; well, her first, but it was like Star Wars where the first turned into the third in the seven book series.
I knew Alison in the 1980s when she was a presenter on local radio, presenting a rock and roll show.
I have photographed her with her Ford Zodiac car as a mechanic, as a model, and recently I ventured into her now home town of Cambridge, to interview her about the first book in the Detective Goodhew series of crime novels. Continue reading
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