Robert Smith Literary agency » Aurum Press https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the lost world of Africa’s infamous aristocrats https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/the-ghosts-of-happy-valley/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/the-ghosts-of-happy-valley/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:53:00 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=1466 The Happy Valley set’s notoriety was sealed in 1941 with the still unsolved murder of the Earl of Errol. Juliet Barnes explores Happy Valley in a remarkable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of the extraordinary and vanished characters. With the help of African guides, and the memories of elderly expats, she brings […]

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]]> Barnes The Ghosts of Happy ValleyThe Happy Valley set’s notoriety was sealed in 1941 with the still unsolved murder of the Earl of Errol. Juliet Barnes explores Happy Valley in a remarkable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of the extraordinary and vanished characters. With the help of African guides, and the memories of elderly expats, she brings new insights to their gilded but frantic lives, and updates the area’s traumatic history from the Mau Mau atrocities in the 50s to the forest and animal devastations of today.

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]]> https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/the-ghosts-of-happy-valley/feed/ 0 Missing, Believed Killed: The remarkable story of a Japanese POW camp survivor https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/795/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/795/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:02:32 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=795 John Baxter was 91, when his book about his experiences in Japanese POW camps was published.  Royal Engineer Baxter was captured and imprisoned in Indonesia in 1942.  He was starved and beaten, and contracted malaria, dysentery and diphtheria, for which he received no treatment.  For the last two years of the War, he worked in […]

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]]> Baxter Missing, Believed KilledJohn Baxter was 91, when his book about his experiences in Japanese POW camps was published.  Royal Engineer Baxter was captured and imprisoned in Indonesia in 1942.  He was starved and beaten, and contracted malaria, dysentery and diphtheria, for which he received no treatment.  For the last two years of the War, he worked in the hard labour mines in Japan, where, in August 1945, he felt the direct blast of the atomic bomb falling on Nagasaki 40 miles away.

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