40 things I’ve learned about life
by Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE. Marriage: On the eve of my wedding 50 years ago, my mother gave me advice that proved invaluable over the years to come. ‘It’s a woman who makes a marriage work’ and she was right…
by Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE. Marriage: On the eve of my wedding 50 years ago, my mother gave me advice that proved invaluable over the years to come. ‘It’s a woman who makes a marriage work’ and she was right…
Protagonist James Falconer returns in this evocative new addition to Barbara Taylor Bradford’s House of Falconer series, The Wonder of It All is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her very best
Dear readers I hope you are all well and 2023 is a wonderful year for you all. One of my New Year resolutions was to start my own blog so I can keep you updated on what’s going on in […]
Many years ago, I wrote about a woman of substance. But that’s an inadequate description of our Queen. Her Majesty was a stateswoman of substance; truly loved and held with such affection across the whole world, because she stood for all that is good and honourable.
The Leeds Library, the oldest membership subscription library in the country, has today (4 November 2021) announced that the international bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has accepted an invitation to become a patron of the Library.
A Man of Honour is the prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford’s New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance.
A collection of 13 designer handbags owned by the international best-selling novelist, Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, will add style and substance to the Bonhams Designer Handbags and Fashion sale on 13 October in Knightsbridge.
As an Ambassador of the National Literacy Trust in the UK and one of the founding members of Literacy Partners in the US I am often asked the question what do I like to read so I thought I’d share some of my most favourite reads.
It was my mother who introduced me to stately homes when I was still a child. She came from Ripon and had grown up in the shadows of Fountains Hall at and Fountains Abbey nearby. She went back to her beloved Ripon frequently and she always took me with her.
As an Ambassador of the National Literacy Trust in the UK and one of the founding members of Literacy Partners in the US I am often asked the question what do I like to read so I thought I’d share some of my most favourite reads.
I have a very good memory and I can very easily recall in a few seconds the event that has stayed in my mind since I was a child. VE Day. To me, it was the most extraordinary celebration that ever happened in Great Britain in its entire history.
The star novelist said she wanted to do her bit to help take people’s ‘minds off the tragic world crisis’, so all this week the Daily Mirror be running the book, which has never before appeared in print.
Celebrated Leeds-born novelist, Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, has received one of the city’s highest civic honours. In recognition of her nationally and internationally acclaimed work, Barbara has been recognised with a prestigious Leeds Award.
The UK’s most senior female editors and high profile writers came together last night (26 November 2019) to honour Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE at a special Woman in Journalism (WIJ) dinner held at the Corinthia London.
For the first time ever, Barbara Taylor Bradford is returning to the very beginning of the story of A Woman of Substance, with a prequel, Blackie and Emma, to be published in 2020.
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