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  Apologies for contacting you when we have never met or been in touch before. I am trying to trace a Julia Jones who lived in Writtle as a child, and wondered if this might be you? I run a removals and clearance company and have this week been clearing the property of a book publisher called Arne Soova. Within the contents, I came across a portrait sketch by Brenda Moore and on the back of the frame is written “Julia Jones as a child…[something beginning with N] Hall, Writtle, Essex”. Apologies if this is not you but if it is, I am just really interested in the story behind the portrait and would love to know more. I can also send a picture of the portrait if you wished. This unexpected email came from Alexa MacDonald and her husband Johnney, whose removals and clearance company is in Newmarket, Suffolk.   When a house is almost empty, Alexa explained that they often find some remaining letters, photos, small items which seem likely to have a personal significance to someo...

  last book Next month I publish the final volume in the Strong Winds series. It’s called Voyage North,  It’s number 7 and it’s been a long time coming.  At the end of Pebble , the sixth volume in the series, Donny the  central character took a reckless decision to leave school, abandon his beautiful junk Strong Winds , fail to say goodbye to his mother and head north with a couple of dodgy Russians on a superyacht. Well, that was back in 2018 and, as you can imagine, I’ve been worrying about him ever since.... Why worry? Why not get on and write the next story, you might reasonably ask. What use was lockdown except to get everyone  completing projects that had lain forgotten for decades? What could be more enjoyable than to stow away on the former Soviet spy ship MY (Motor Yacht) Raisa , now a luxury, automated, expedition vessel and discover what’s really going on between the morally suspect oligarch Arkady Ivanov and the carefully un-named Russian Presiden...