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

Rosy Cole

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.

Interests include singing, painting, drawing, walking, alternative therapies, opera, early music, folk, jazz and musicals

 

Further information at: http://www.pilgrimrose.com

Upcoming Works

  • THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS, Book Two of the Berkeley Trilogy 1800 - 1811
    (The story of Mary Cole, 5th Countess of Berkeley 1767 - 1844)

    JERICHO ROSE, the book. (Work in progress.) Prose and poems inspired by the Lebanese poet, Kahlil Gibran. Title piece featuring Mary, the Mother of Jesus in a collection penetrating the inner psychology of figures in biblical history: Eve, Esther, Bathsheba, King Herod, Mary Magdalene, Pilate’s Wife, the Man of Kerioth, Peter, Thomas, John, Paul…

    THE GODMOTHER (Marion Grace)
    Dysfunctional family wrestles with the aftermath of two World Wars under a dour but charismatic oracle, Sibyl.The book is already written but awaits preparation for publication.

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....

Nickname

  • None that I know of!!

Relationship

  • Widow

Family

  • One adult son (and a Labrador X who has ideas above his station and thinks he should be upright!)

Causes I Support

  • World Vision, Bible Alive International Prison Outreach, Salvation Army (Missing Persons) Emmaus (Homeless Project, UK) Poor Clares, Arundel, UK

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