The Third Apology, a story of love, betrayal and redemption, has been receiving some great reviews from early readers of the paperback. When two young Englishmen set out to hitchhike to Marrakesh in 1968 their lives are altered forever after they meet a beautiful French female fashion student. The narrative captures their turbulent lives in […]
Author: Douglas Adamson
The Third Apology Launch
The Third Apology launch event for fifty invited guests at Six Poor Folk bar andbistro in Knaresborough went down a storm. Invitees supped delicious Cava andcanapés while Doug was interviewed about the book and its detailed plot ofsecret pasts, romance, betrayal, and reconciliation by bar owner, Ian Gill. Ian was specifically chosen as he is […]
Early Birds And All That
It was 2.55 am when my alarm went off. It was a late April Saturday morning and I was on a mission with fellow bird enthusiasts to witness a Lek. We needed to be in upper Teesdale in the North Pennines by 5 am to meet our guides from the Game Conservancy Trust. Arriving late […]
Far Too Far To Go By Car
Don’t get me wrong, at heart I am a petrolhead, and have enjoyed some fast, exotic, gas guzzling motors over the decades of my long driving life. I still hanker after my Maserati, Porsche, open top Jags and Alfas. However, old age, realism and concern for the environment has tempered my tastes. The alternative is […]
Endeavour
Last week I was privileged to attend a talk and an event that are inspiring examples of endeavour by spirited individuals working in the natural world. On Wednesday eveningI watched a film presentation by Marek Borkowski, a man who during the last fifty years has managed to save and preserve ancient wetlands in the Biebrza […]
Are You Sitting Comfortably? Well I’ll Begin…
I must have been about 10 years old when I had my first rush of creative writing. I had been asked by my English teacher, the indomitable, Mr Horne, a man with keen sense of the absurd, to write an essay on anything we fancied for a homework exercise. This was better than the usual […]
The Winter Madness of the Lighthouse Keeper
The little girl clambered into her wooden bed and pulled the wool blanket up to her chin. Lying back on her straw mattress she could see the lighthouse through her tiny bedroom window. The lighthouse was painted white and it stood proud atop a small rocky outcrop surrounded by crashing seas. In the summer months, […]
The Return Chapters 13-15 – the Conclusion
Chapter 13 The manorial court rolls in medieval times mentions Jacob’s Acres as common land used by villeins to raise cattle, sheep and grow cereals. Under the feudal system they paid dues every year to the Lord of the Manor. When the Enclosure Act came into being in the early 1700s land was parcelled up, […]
The Return – Chapters 10-12
Chapter 10 Simon Padfoot is looking over his business plans for the fifty houses on Jacob’s Acres. He will trigger his option to purchase as soon as planning is granted. The vendor is a Cayman Island Trust Fund, the real owner is surrounded in secrecy. All his dealings to date have been through a large, […]
The Return – Chapters 7-9
The Return Chapters 7-9 Chapter 7 ‘Hello, what can I do for you?’ Ask the Rector, as she is about to put on her blue clerical blouse and collar. A man has emerged silently through the vestry door into the robing room of St Mary’s. He is dressed as a clergyman in an old fashioned […]