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Haunted Kent by Janet Cameron

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Anne Boleyn Haunting in Kent, Drawing: Copyright Janet Cameron Tempus Publishing, (2005) £8.99 www.tempus-publishing.com ISBN 0-7524-3605-8 HEALTH ALERT - If you scare easily DON'T BUY HAUNTED KENT Haunted Kent contains heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestions and related supernatural phenomena which range over many years and span the county of Kent. Why do some people attract ghosts, spirits and poltergeists? Why can only certain individuals detect their vibration frequencies? (Perhaps you are one of these spirit-sensitive people.) Haunted Kent celebrates new and well-known spooky stories from around the county. Contained in this selection are stories of the hunchback monk at Boughton Malherbe, the black dog of Leeds, Canterbury's faithless friar and Dungeness' mysterious lady, as well as the famous tale of Lady Blanche of Rochester Castle. This fascinating collection of strange sightings and happenings in the county's str

Dover - Murder & Crime by Janet Cameron

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Tempus Publishing (2006) £8.99 www.tempus-publishing.com ISBN: 0-7524-3978-2 Those who fell foul of the law in Kent faced a horrible fate, some were thrown to their deaths from the top of Dover's iconic white cliffs, while others were hanged, quartered, burnt or buried alive, yet still the criminal fraternity of Kent went undeterred. This fascinating book contains tales of thwarted rivals and wicked soldiers, desperate mothers, licentious monks and disreputable women.

Poems

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POEMS BY JANET CAMERON PUBLISHED IN ACUMEN, EQUINOX, LOGOS LIST I like the sound when soft winds play pizzicato on wing feathers of swans in flight. I like the songs of sunset when starlings audition for Aerial Idol. I like the sight of sanderlings prospecting in the shallows like grouchy old men. I like the fresh smell of a new day,- the taste of sea spray on my lips and of you on my tongue. (Janet Cameron, from Acumen No. 51, January, 2005) 7 WAYS OF LOOKING AT 15 MINUTES The author would like to thank her family - and Mrs. McDowell who actually read her book. Her agent who spoke for more than sixty seconds on the telephone and signed a card 'With Much Love...' The author would like to stick a Long Pin in the heart of the academic who remarked, 'Oh well, nowadays they publish such rubbish. And the 'friend' who asked how much it cost her! Figments and fragments - the seeds that gave birth to the composite children