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Poetry - July 2024

My third poetry collection.

Buy from the publisher: Cold Hub Press, coldhub@gmail.com PO Box 156, Lyttelton 8841, New Zealand 

Born in Dunedin in 1942, Dunstan Ward studied at the University of Canterbury and then taught at Waikato University. In 1971 he left for London, and in 1973 settled in Paris, retiring as Professor of English at the University of London Institute in 2007; he still teaches a weekly seminar at the Paris centre of Columbia University (New York). With Beryl Graves, the poet’s widow, he edited the Complete Poems of Robert Graves. He has published three poetry collections: Beyond Puketapu (Steele Roberts, 2015), At This Distance (Cold Hub Press, 2019) and Departures (Cold Hub Press, 2024).

Fiction - April 2025

Not so long ago, young women fought and died for Britain

Twenty-year-old Diana Buckingham was bred to be the wife of an important man. Now the nation is at war and the enemy is preparing to invade. Diana must choose between her aristocratic life, and being who she really is – she can’t have both. She joins the hundreds of thousands of enlistees training to defend their country.

As the bombs begin to rain down and the death toll rises, Diana needs every ounce of savvy to keep herself, and her troops, alive. They must hold their nerve and keep the pilots in the air, or Britain will fall. They fight, live, and love as though there is no tomorrow, dismantling the chains of class, and creating a world where they are free to be, and do, anything. Diana must decide who she truly is, and where a romance with a totally unsuitable airman fits in.

Once the war is won, they are dismissed to homes and kitchens, where an insidious enemy is waiting for them. This time they are alone as they fight for their sanity, and to reclaim their place in a world determined to forget them. Diana will have to start making choices that weigh the society she pledged to protect, against everything that truly matters.

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Hi, I'm Suzy Susan, the proud daughter of a WAAF Royal Air Force officer - that's her in the photo. I’ve always loved writing stories about everyday women who do extraordinary things. Not just the rare ‘purple unicorns,’ but the generations of women who quietly stepped up, did what needed to be done, and so often went unrecognised.

Wings Unseen is my first novel, inspired by true events and my mother’s own service during the Second World War. It is both a tribute and a call to remember the 250,000 women who made up a quarter of the Royal Air Force ground crew, fighting for their country at its hour of greatest need.

My hope is that this story will inspire you to go looking for the hidden heroines in your own family tree, to bring their remarkable stories back into the light.

Literary Travel - Published May 2025

A humorous, meandering journey through the many wonders of New Zealand. Flâneur is French for 'one who wanders,' and in this sequel to Mature Flâneur: Slow Travels through Portugal, France, Italy and Norway, author Tim Ward and Teresa (his intrepid spouse), travel the length and breadth of New Zealand in an electric vehicle, exploring wilderness and wildlife, mountains and beaches, architecture and culture, geological and biological oddities, and the challenging dynamic of the nation's two peoples.

Buy it here: Collective Ink Books,  Amazon

Tim Ward is a Canadian travel writer and the author of 12 books. Based in Paris, France, Tim and his wife Teresa have become global nomads, travelling most of the year. “Mature Flâneur,” Tim’s new books series and blog, explores what it means to travel slowly, as a flâneur, “one who wanders without purpose, observing society.” To be a flâneur to give yourself the gift of time: permission to live an unstructured life and, by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself.