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...
Category: Guernsey
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...
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Another novel set on Guernsey is The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, of which Sam Youd wrote: One of the great novels of the twentieth century is The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G....
A stew of intrigue
Hilary Ford, reflecting on the Gothic: “Have you ever thought of that – having a go at the Gothic?” I had read, enjoyed and admired Rebecca, but the image that immediately sprang to mind was...
Sarnia Cherie
‘Sarnia Cherie’, the anthem of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, was composed by George Deighton and Domenico Santangelo in 1911: Sarnia; dear Homeland, Gem of the sea. Island of beauty, my heart longs for thee. Thy...
