Rosy Cole Biographical novelist and Poet. Literary fiction. Occasional articles.

Rosy Cole

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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 thirty 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, T.S.Eliot, Kahlil Gibran...

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

Press Clips

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Reviews of Next Year In Jerusalem (first edition of Dreams of Gold)

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