Wendy Percival

By the time this post whooshes its way on to the the World Wide Web, I’ll be away recharging my batteries on the Cornish coast. In the past, when went away with the family, I used to choose a novel to read to the children at bedtime which was set in the location where we were staying. I remember a particular favourite was The Wind Eye by Robert Westall, set on the Northumberland coast, near Lindisfarne. Brilliant book! It became legendary in our family, creating a fabulous at

A few years ago we were staying in Marazion, not far from Penzance where I’d been on a writer’s panel at the Penzance Literary Festival. During an evening walk along the beach we came across a large crowd of people and realised we’d stumbled upon a film crew in action. Before we knew it, we’d joined the extras and found ourselves cheering at a running race along the sand. It was only afterwards that we discovered the film crew were from ZDF, National German TV, filming a dram