Country Rock story

Rough Music is a story set in the 1970s in a country rock band. The 2 lead singers try to make good music and maintain their marriages, in spite of being on tour all the time.

story about Nashville

Available on Amazon, my story about a young singer and his girlfriend, and how he learns to make their relationship better. Its called Beds and Blue Jeans

Hannah Shaw

Hannah is an American animal advocate who specialises in rescuing newborn kittens who have no mother to care for them. She has fostered many many kittens and written a book TIny But Mighty about her work and she lectures on kitten care and fostering. She also writes children's books

The Onedin Line by Cyril Abraham

This is both a TV serial and a set of books by Cyril Abraham. He wanted to write a tv series about a shipping line but decided to set his story in Victorian Liverpool. It was a bedroom and boardroom series, which was extremely popular on tv in the 1970s. THe anti hero was James Onedin, son of a shopkeeper, who went off to sea but had an ambition to own his own shipping line. James is a hard unfeeling man... who becomes depressed that he cannot afford to buy even one ship. Then he gets a chance. There is a rundown ship for sale, from an old man with a drink problem. The old man has a plain daughter who wants the security of marriage. James agrees to marry her to get the ship. James has a brother and a sister, Elizabeth, who is very beautiful and who attracts the attention of Albert Frazer whose father owns a ship yard. The story covers James' marriage to Anne, and their falling in love. Elizabeth becomes pregnant by her fiance, and ends up marrying ALbert Frazer. The later part of the saga covers the love affairs of Charlotte, James' daughter, and her 2 cousins, William Frazer and Samuel Onedin. James remarries several years after Annes death but his second wife, Letty also dies. He marries a Spanish American woman and they have a baby son.

story on Amazon

Here's another story on Amazon by Nadine Sutton. Its called Rough Music and is about a country rock band in the US in the 1970s and 80s. The band are just beginning to have some success after being a bar band. Now they have wives and children and are not sure what more they want out of life.

available on Amazon... music world story

Beds and Blue Jeans is a story, novella length about a young bar singer in Nashville in the 2010s.. who has found himself being pursued by a lot of lady fans. He has a girlfriend who has just had his baby, but the relationship with Patty isn't going too well. Sam lets himself be caught by various pretty ladies but can he learn to appreciate Patty and settle down with her and their baby. On Amazon.

Nancy Mitford

Linda settles down in Alconleigh, where Dorothy Fanny's mother has also turned up to seek refuge..with a Spanish boyfriend. Davey and Emily are also there. The Alconleighs are not aware of the break up of Linda's second marriage... or that she has a new lover. but Dorothy who has left several husbands, is, and teases Linda about her French duke. Linda is not very well, and Fanny worries about her since she was not supposed to have another baby. Fanny is also pregnant and so is Louisa Linda's older sister. Spring comes and Linda only has one letter from Fabrice which she cannot read. Then, she has her baby, a boy, and dies in giving birth. Fanny has another son and she and Alfred contact Christian and offer to adopt Linda's child. Fabrice is shot during resistance work and Fanny and Davey tell the parents that Linda was in love with Fabrice, and had his baby. They accept their new grandson.... but they all miss Linda