TESTIMONIALS
Mining Memories (2010)
'Beautiful'
- Hunter Davies, speaking at the 2011 Lakeland
Book of the Year Awards Ceremony.
'Sad but wonderful poems.'
- Dennis Skinner, MP
'Although it is inappropriate to select a favourite poem
I did find At the Party particularly poignant. It is extremely
important that memories should live on.'
- V.O.S.Jones, MBE, Chairman of the Coal Industry
Social Welfare Organisation
Dandelions Growing Up in Cumbria (2015)
'It has compassion, humour and honesty.'
- M.H., Amazon review
'Delightful collection of wonderful honest poetry.
Pictures of the Cumbrian landscape leap from the page.'
- Glenian, Amazon reviewer
'An enlightening and moving collection of poems.
I have read and re-read Dandelions and will go back to the poems again.'
- Mary C., Amazon reviewer
Night Light (2015)
'Jenny Martin just gets better and better. She squeezes so much meaning
from so few words. This little book takes the reader through the whole range
of human emotions: despair, grief and sadness to the frankly hilarious.
Do not miss this beautifully crafted book.'
- Glenian, Amazon review
Why Didn't They Listen? The nightmare of a missed dementia diagnosis (2015)
'An extensively researched book on two very topical subjects:
dementia and medical negligence.'
- Mykel Sonar, Amazon review
'An expose of the medical and legal mistakes and muddle
that marred a couple's last years together.'
- Eve Hopeful, Amazon review
'Very well written.
The opening chapters I just couldn't put down.'
- Netty, Amazon review.
Aftermath (2014)
'Moving war poetry and short story collection.'
- Berwick Advertiser
'Family's links to the tragedy of war and the pits recalled.'
- The Whitehaven News
'I have read Aftermath from cover to cover and I found
the stories and poems very moving.'
- Sir Nicholas Winterton
'This collection of poems and short stories will stir the memories
of many and forever leave a place in their hearts.'
- Dame Vera Lynn
In Our Fathers' Footsteps (2018)
'The pity of war is visited afresh, with an insight reflecting the author's
author's grasp of the poetic. Thoughts on the French Resistance blend
with moving memories of the friendship
forged between her father and a Dutch family.'
- J.P., Judge and writer
'A sincere and thought proving book about WW2, meticulously researched,
the sadness softened by the author's personal approach, sympathy and humour.
It is a great book and well worth reading.'
- Amazon customer
'This book by the author of Mining Memories is a chronicle of war
from - unusually - the perspective
of ordinary people. An in-depth and emotive,
yet easy and entertaining read.'
- P.P., proof reader and English teacher
'A prodigious and impressive work written in a fluent
prose style, infused with passionate concern for humanity and
despair at its frequently self-defeating behaviour.'
- Professor Emeritus D.M. Goldberg
Last Post
(poem)
'Haunting poem'
- The Whitehaven News
Mining Memories (2010)
'Beautiful'
- Hunter Davies, speaking at the 2011 Lakeland
Book of the Year Awards Ceremony.
'Sad but wonderful poems.'
- Dennis Skinner, MP
'Although it is inappropriate to select a favourite poem
I did find At the Party particularly poignant. It is extremely
important that memories should live on.'
- V.O.S.Jones, MBE, Chairman of the Coal Industry
Social Welfare Organisation
Dandelions Growing Up in Cumbria (2015)
'It has compassion, humour and honesty.'
- M.H., Amazon review
'Delightful collection of wonderful honest poetry.
Pictures of the Cumbrian landscape leap from the page.'
- Glenian, Amazon reviewer
'An enlightening and moving collection of poems.
I have read and re-read Dandelions and will go back to the poems again.'
- Mary C., Amazon reviewer
Night Light (2015)
'Jenny Martin just gets better and better. She squeezes so much meaning
from so few words. This little book takes the reader through the whole range
of human emotions: despair, grief and sadness to the frankly hilarious.
Do not miss this beautifully crafted book.'
- Glenian, Amazon review
Why Didn't They Listen? The nightmare of a missed dementia diagnosis (2015)
'An extensively researched book on two very topical subjects:
dementia and medical negligence.'
- Mykel Sonar, Amazon review
'An expose of the medical and legal mistakes and muddle
that marred a couple's last years together.'
- Eve Hopeful, Amazon review
'Very well written.
The opening chapters I just couldn't put down.'
- Netty, Amazon review.
Aftermath (2014)
'Moving war poetry and short story collection.'
- Berwick Advertiser
'Family's links to the tragedy of war and the pits recalled.'
- The Whitehaven News
'I have read Aftermath from cover to cover and I found
the stories and poems very moving.'
- Sir Nicholas Winterton
'This collection of poems and short stories will stir the memories
of many and forever leave a place in their hearts.'
- Dame Vera Lynn
In Our Fathers' Footsteps (2018)
'The pity of war is visited afresh, with an insight reflecting the author's
author's grasp of the poetic. Thoughts on the French Resistance blend
with moving memories of the friendship
forged between her father and a Dutch family.'
- J.P., Judge and writer
'A sincere and thought proving book about WW2, meticulously researched,
the sadness softened by the author's personal approach, sympathy and humour.
It is a great book and well worth reading.'
- Amazon customer
'This book by the author of Mining Memories is a chronicle of war
from - unusually - the perspective
of ordinary people. An in-depth and emotive,
yet easy and entertaining read.'
- P.P., proof reader and English teacher
'A prodigious and impressive work written in a fluent
prose style, infused with passionate concern for humanity and
despair at its frequently self-defeating behaviour.'
- Professor Emeritus D.M. Goldberg
Last Post
(poem)
'Haunting poem'
- The Whitehaven News
One Dog and His Cop
'Well researched and entertaining'
- Amazon review
'A gift for my mum but she has absolutely enjoyed it and could not put it down'
- Amazon review
- Amazon review
'A gift for my mum but she has absolutely enjoyed it and could not put it down'
- Amazon review