If you read Ellie's first book - Algarve Shorts - you will know that the dream of her and her husband to make a new life in Portugal ended on a sad note. They had bought a carpentry business and settled in Algarve where they were deliriously happy until disaster struck. The economic recession which had been their main reason for leaving the UK spread to Europe and eventually hit Portugal. Their business suffered and they had only one choice left to them. They had to return to England.

But their love of Algarve never left them. It remained in their blood and sooner or later they knew they would have to go back. When things got a little better, this is exactly what they did. They packed their belongings and set off in their camper van.

Long Road Back tells the story of their second attempt to make a new life for themselves in Portugal.

Will they succeed this time? You can find out by buying the new book.

Education Glorious Salvation is an account of the author’s schooldays at Bottesford Primary School during the war years of 1939 to 1945.

He attempts to contrast the naivety and innocence of primary pupils with their mischief and impishness in the hope that the narrative also conveys the salvation that education provided for him and many of his school colleagues.

John Taylor’s narration is absolutely apolitical but he, like many, many others, regrets the demise of the grammar/secondary education system in this country. Although he was a grammar school boy himself, he still acknowledges the value of his wife’s super secondary education which enabled her, in her nursing career, to achieve just as much as he did.