alison brodie

I love books.  I collect them.  What's wrong with that, huh?  Nothing.  But Hubby doesn’t agree.  He’s “sick” of having to tiptoe through tottering towers of paperbacks to get from one side of the room to the other....

Hello darlinks,

I am Zenka, the fabulous star of ZENKA.

Linda of Linda's Book Bag told Alison to write about me.  Vy?  Vy should Alison do this?  It is ME who must write about ME.  And this is vat I do now.

I tell you.  Fro...

My latest book, Zenka, has just been published on Amazon Kindle.

Here is the Goodreads link:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36423193-zenka

Let me tell you a little about it (remember, I am useless at writing a synopsis.  I can writ...

I found this antique pamphlet "A Short Guide to Great Britain" published by the War and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C.  This guide was issued to American servicemen during the Second World War.  Read what it has to say about Britis...

It’s been scientifically proven that reading reduces stress by 68%.  But how much MORE stress is reduced if you read COMEDY?

I write comedy...

This New Year’s will be pretty uneventful for most of us, apart from drunken Uncle Billy reversing into the mailbox, or grandma getting cheeky with the hot new neighbour.

But sweep your mind back sixteen years.  Can you do that?  If you...

5 TOP LIPS

Where would romance be without lips?  Lips are where the first spark flies, when the first thrill enters the nervous system.

I’m pretty sure all my books have got lips in them; if not mentioned overtly then certainly they assu...

Walls tumble down. They start off by keeping things in, or out – depending on where you stand, or who you are – north/south, rich/poor, East/West, royal/peasant and so on. They end up, when they come tumbling down, letting everything i...

Do you have to stumble over discarded crap to get to your desk? Do you have to side-step the Step Master, skirt your pile of laundry and tip-toe through a maze of teetering books just to get to your laptop?

Here are my 12 Top Tips tha...

If I had any fingernails left, I’d be chomping on them. If I hadn’t sworn off all my vices for the New Year, I’d be swimming in them. If I hadn’t set January 26 as the launch date of my new romance, THE DOUBLE, I’d be baking a cake, wa...