The south coast of Guernsey
They took the road to St Martin’s, a pleasant village on the high ground south of St Peter Port, but shortly before entering it the landau turned to the left. For another half mile or...
Category: Guernsey
Sam Youd on Guernsey
Sam Youd wrote more than half his 57 published novels during the nearly twenty years he lived on the Channel Island of Guernsey. It was on Guernsey that he first ventured into the field of...
The jumble of destruction
In the east the sky turned from black to purple and, as the stars faded, to light-flushed blue. The earth was quieter, trembling from time to time but with no great violence; almost gently. Matthew...
A terminal quiet
He had no idea how long it was before the first real lull came. He had the impression that the shocks had been going on for hours, but that was not to be relied on;...
Convulsions
Matthew felt the canes whip against his face and body, and reached out convulsively to anchor himself. The earth subsided and he began to slip down, then rocked as violently as before, throwing the stars...
A cold clear night
It was a clear, fairly cold night – no clouds, a quarter moon, and light sifting out across the sky from the great arc of the Milky Way. He heard the dog again as he...
The island of Herm
Hilary Ford recalls the island of Herm: Herm, three miles from St Peter Port, is the tiny jewel of the Channel Islands…. Before the first ferry arrives in the morning, and after the last goes...
The weather is breaking
She felt more at peace than she could ever remember. Over eighteen hours had passed since she last took the drug, and her mind felt clear, though languid. There was the enormous relief of freedom,...
Guernsey – a land of deep conflicts
May 9th 1945 saw the end of five years of occupation of the island of Guernsey, when British forces arrived in St Peter Port, greeted by crowds of joyous but malnourished islanders. Here Hilary Ford reflects...
The Book of Lies
The spirited Sarnia is by no means the only literary heroine to tread the cliff paths of Guernsey. Wind the clock forward a hundred and twenty years to the 1980s and, in Mary Horlock’s The...