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Peter Williams
Peter Williams was born in 1949 in the UK. He joined the R A F after leaving school, serving in the control towers at RAF Tern Hill and RAF Gan. After leaving the RAF he became a car salesman until 2016 when, after a massive disagreement with Management, he walked out and, due to some health issues, decided to retire. This is his first book.
Maggie Williams Richmond
A perennial bookworm and student, Maggie Williams Richmond has enjoyed a varied career including nursing, social care management, and charity administration. Having formerly balanced work and travel, Maggie spent the first five years of her retirement labouring with her husband to restore an old stone house in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. At the same time, she continued to compose songs, write poems, and publish a quirky reflective blog, co-authored with her dog Shadow. Now settled near Dundee, Maggie has delved deeply into her ...
Maggie Williams Richmond
A perennial bookworm and student, Maggie Williams Richmond has enjoyed a varied career including nursing, social care management, and charity administration. Having formerly balanced work and travel, Maggie spent the first five years of her retirement labouring with her husband to restore an old stone house in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. At the same time, she continued to compose songs, write poems, and publish a quirky reflective blog, co-authored with her dog Shadow. Now settled near Dundee, Maggie has delved deeply into her family ...
Dieter Wilms
The author, Dieter Wilms, born in Mönchengladbach in 1954, is a trained machinist. After his time in the German Armed Forces, he completed training as a driving instructor and worked in that profession for forty years, most of that time as the owner of his own driving school. During that time, he taught 4,000 students how to drive. A married father of one daughter, he has not confined his retirement to the pursuit of hobbies such as driving and reading. Instead, he fulfilled a long-cherished dream by writing his first book, "In a Sea of Blood ...
Katharine Wilson
Katharine Wilson was born as Katharine Davison in Ryton, Tyne valley in 1971, when the village came under County Durham in the U.K. She was educated at Ryton Comprehensive school and left in 1987. She has worked in various support roles including early years and health and social care. She worked for one of the leading hospital trusts at Royal Victoria Infirmary where she worked a health care assistant on the Cardiology Ward until 2019. She has two grown up sons. Her hobbies are walking, reading, writing, watching T.V. dramas, yoga and ...
Richard Wilson
First time author Richard Wilson was born on 5 July 1948 in Nairobi, Kenya where he lived through the Mau Mau rebellion. From the age of six, he was educated away from home in boarding schools. He attended Manor House School in Kitale, Kenya and Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Home for Richard included fifteen locations in Kenya, a large plantation in Borneo and homes in Zambia, South Africa and France before coming to live and work in England in industrial businesses. Richard has worked for GKN Plc as a divisional CEO and Bandt Plc as CEO. ...
Traute Wohlers-Scharf
Dr. mult. Traute Wohlers-Scharf studied law and political science, and later classical archeology at the University of Vienna. Then she started a career in international organizations such as IDEP (Dakar), UNIDO (Vienna), Asian Development Bank (Manila) and OECD (Paris). She stopped working internationally when her husband became ill. Then she completed professional training as a psychotherapist (symbolic drama) and worked as such in Vienna. Her interests include reading, playing bridge, golf, painting and pottery, as well as traveling and, ...
Stan Wolf
Stan Wolf was born in Passau in 1950. He spent the first years of his life at a farm in Germany. The author passed school and the education in steel construction in Salzburg, at the foot of Untersberg where he has been running a small company for 30 years. Stan Wolf is married, has two daughters and by this time a granddaughter. His hobbies are flying and submerged cultures. His preference for the desert leads him to Egypt where he follows remote paths alongside the traces of the Pharaos several times a year.Because of his adventurous ...
Chin Sheng Yang
Chin Sheng Yang was born in Taiwan and adopted at birth by a mason and his family. Growing up in poverty around the time of World War II, he did what he could to help his family survive, working as a peddler selling vegetables and candy on the street and a coolie, carrying bricks for his adopted father’s masonry projects, while also working hard at his studies to improve his circumstances. When he was offered a scholarship to study in the United States, he moved to California to further his education. Attending UCLA and USC while working at ...
Anka "Anik" Ziegler
Anka Ziegler was born in East Germany and comes from a middle-class family. She had good results at school and then went on to the Kosmelik Technical School where she spent four years and qualified with a diploma as a medical technician. She was married and divorced twice but was unable to become pregnant as her children were stillborn. She lived in Switzerland for 4 years in a relationship with an influential man. In 1999 she moved to New York where a talent agency discovered her. She was good at sports but was unable to continue with her ...