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Rosy Cole Biographical historical novel author. Also writes literary fiction. Occasional articles.

Rosy Cole

Author Biography

Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England and now lives on the West Sussex coast. A professional writer for over twenty years, she has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader and is a member of the Society of Authors (UK) and the Historical Novel Society.
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Influences

Jane Austen, Susan Hill, Lawrence Durrell, Virginia Woolf

Favorite Books

Restoration - Rose Tremain,

Rites of Passage - William Golding,

The Waves - Virginia Woolf,

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf,

Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon,

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Favorite Authors

Anya Seton, Helen Ashton, Mark Twain, Susan Hill, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Rachel Billington, Anita Brookner, Salley Vickers, Turgenev, Tolstoy,Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Dumas (the younger) William Golding, Kasuo Ishiguro, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Paul Theroux, Laurie Lee, Joanna Trollope, John Mortimer, David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Jessie Kesson, Frances Wilson, Beryl Bainbridge, Isobel Colegate, Jane Austen,Thomas Hardy, Antonia White, Herman Wouk, Gerard W Hughes, Alice Thomas Ellis, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Webb, Susan Howatch, Kate Atkinson, Tracy Chevalier, Peter Ackroyd, Andre Gide....

What I'm Reading

Research for The Berkeley Trilogy

Web Links

Rosy Cole's Blog

Babel
November 30, 2008
- In his interesting blog discussing the relationship of violence and language, Hammoudi Abdelwa
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Inconceivable Prospect
November 28, 2008
- This Sunday marks the launch of the Season of Advent.
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New Heart, New Inspiration
November 19, 2008
- It's sobering that the fear expressed by Raul Ramos y Sanchez in Another Martyr in the Making?
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Media

Du Temps Perdu	Debut and Diversion

Published Works


DREAMS OF GOLD	MY MOTHER BIDS ME	A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS
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Articles and Stories

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Song Cycle by Rosy Cole

Preview excerpt from THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS, Book Two of the Berkeley Trilogy by Rosy Cole

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Published Reviews

My Mother Bids Me by Historical Novels Review Online (November 2008 - February 2009 quarter)
The Wolf And The Lamb by Kirkus Reviews/Discoveries
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB by Historical Novel Review Online (August - November quarter 2008)