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Writing poetry and making up stories since she was a child, Ann only began to write for publication when her children left home. Her ambition was to write science fiction, but, fascinated by Swansea Castle and distracted by a major stroke she researched local history, an interest that culminated in the publication of her first book Alina, The White Lady of Oystermouth, a local history book told as a story, at Easter 2012. Early retirement gave her more time to concentrate on her writing.
The sales of over 300 copies of Alina in local shops and museums, and at speaking engagements, led to a second local history book, Broken Reed: The Lords of Gower and King John in September 2013, and then to The Magna Carta Story: The Layman’s Guide to Magna Carta at Easter 2015. The latest book, Medieval Gower Stories, is a collection of ten other stories she found in her research, published in October 2017. The next book will be Swansea Miracle.
During her stroke recovery she wrote poetry, which she published as My Stroke of Inspiration in August 2015, a surprisingly cheerful collection. She is still writing science fiction, a series called Flight of the Kestrel, and the first book Intruders was published in April 2016. The second, Alien Secrets, was published in October 2018. The third, Crisis of Conscience, was published in 2021. Look out for book 4, Planet Fail.
Also a surprisingly cheerful collection of her stroke poetry, My Stroke of Inspiration, and a Christian help book, Blinded by the Light.
Reviewed by Thomas Falco for Readers' Favorite
In this piece of non fiction, the writer has presented the life story of Alina de Breos in her fight for the Gower peninsular. It includes important information about her family, Wales and England at that time period - including the famous fight between King Edward II and Queen Isabella. This information is vital in understanding Alina's story and the era that she lived in. It also includes information about the family line of Alina, showing the estate of her family and how it changed through generations before getting to Alina's life - again, more vital information needed to better understand her story.
Though this piece of writing is based on facts, I couldn't help sense a bit of a storyline. Sometimes non fiction can get too caught up in story telling that the underlying facts are put on the backbench but I must stress that while there is an interesting storyline to this piece, the emphasis is on the facts - which is needed in any good non fiction writing. It is a great short piece. The amount of information isn't overwhelming and certainly a good introduction for anybody wanting to research this particular era. The only problem I had as a reader reading this is that there are a lot of 'Williams' in the story (especially at the start). Although it helps keep as much historical detail to the piece, it can be a little hard keeping up with which William is which. But entering this piece with this in mind, it is a wonderful piece that is rich with historical information. It is in fact a great starting point for further research into this field.
