Beatles & Chiefs by Janet Macleod Trotter
Featured on BC Home Truths, this is the delightful memoir of a Beatle-mad, ex-pat Scot growing up in the north-east of England in the 1960s. The only girl in a family of boys, Janet was brought up in the 'Land of Boy' - a boarding school in Durham where her father Norman was housemaster. Every year, these seven MacLeods would cram into a Ford Zephyr for the two day journey back to the ancestral home on the Isle of Skye. Beatlemania, the Girls from U.N.C.L.E, suffragette great-aunts, real chiefs, Donovan-spotting, a pastry scandal and a dash of blood-thirsty clan history - Janet's tales are amusing and touching, and vividly re-create the lost world of '60s Durham and the Scottish Highlands before mass tourism.Janet MacLeod Trotter, a British author, has published eight novels, four of which are historical sagas set in the xxth century. The first, The Hungry Hills, was nominated for a Sunday Times award for best author novel, while Las luces de Assam was nominated for a Romantic Novelists' Association award for best novel of the year and is one of Amazon's top ten best-selling titles, with sales in both Russian and French. Janet has also written for adolescent audiences and is the author of numerous short stories for women's magazines, some of which have been collected in the anthology Ice Cream Summer. Beatles & Chiefs, his childhood memories from Durham and Skye in the 1960s, were featured on BBC Radio 4's Home Truths program. In addition, the author has written for The Newcastle Journal, directed The Clan MacLeod Magazine, and is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Society. (www.janetmacleodtrotter.com) Las luces de Assam is the first installment in the Aromas of Tea series, which takes place in the United Kingdom and India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780956642653 |
| ISBN 10 | 0956642659 |
| Title | Beatles & Chiefs |
| Author | Janet Macleod Trotter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MacLeod Trotter Books |
| Year published | 2011-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 138 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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