An Island author will be signing copies of her book at Ventnor Library next week. Valerie Bridgeman tells us more. Ed
The day after its publication and at the invitation of Friends of Ventnor Library, Jan Toms, Island author will be signing her new spoof crime novel The Accidental Assassin at Ventnor Library on Tuesday 26th July at 11.00am (see other dates at bottom of article).
The novel centres on Victor Green, an unmarried tax inspector, who with a miniature poodle and a policeman’s daughter gets embroiled in gang warfare on the Island! The book is a first in a series featuring the adventures of Victor Green.
Jan will also be signing her recently published The Little Book of the IW which contains hundreds of snippets of information about the Island.
For instance did you know that:
- With the £5 he earned from composing ‘Salut d’Amour’ Edward Elgar paid for his honeymoon at Ventnor.
- William Hosking of Ventnor installed one of his clocks at every railway station on the Isle of Wight.
Other Island books in the pipeline
Commissioned by The History Press, Jan is currently working on two more Island books, one on Villains and one looking at locations Then and Now.
In her own words Jan says, “It is a shock to realise that I have been writing for more that 25 years. I was born on the Island from a long line of natives going back to at least Elizabethan times, hence the Island really is in my blood. I hope to continue writing fact and fiction about it for as long as I can.”
Jan will be taking part in book signings across the Island from tomorrow. Catch her at …..
- IWCP Shop, Newport, July 23 10am-12pm
- Ventnor Library July 26 11am-1pm
- Waterstones, July 27 6.30-8.30pm
- Freshwater Library July 30 – 10.30-12.30
