Author Archive: Wendy Holden
A Time Of Miracles
by Wendy Holden ‘AS long as I have music, then it is proof that beauty still exists in this world.’ So spoke sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Zuzana Růžičková in 1943 on the eve of being transported from the ghetto where most of her family had died to the even more unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and […]
From War Correspondent To Fiction Writer
WENDY HOLDEN, also known as TAYLOR HOLDEN explains what it’s like to be a war correspondent and how the legacy of her experiences unwittingly provided rich material for her first novel. THE IMAGES on our television screens or in our newspapers are frighteningly familiar – Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq – carnage, misery and bloodshed everywhere […]
Two Decades of Writing
TWENTY years ago my first book was published – Unlawful Carnal Knowledge: The True Story of the Irish X Case was subsequently banned in Ireland, which made it an overnight success north of the border. As a journalist on the Daily Telegraph, I was working full-time but took the week off to promote my book […]
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