Click THE GOLD CHARACTER CARDS to view gallery. Some of the characters in my 7th novel The Gold. The characters of Bruce Robinson, Susan Sarandon and Richard E. Grant are inspired by real people of the same names, the rest are straight out of my imagination.
Click MUSICIAN PORTRAITS to view gallery. Some of my portraits of musicians and other artists. All copyright Jude Calvert-Toulmin. Contact me through contact page for permissions to use.
After a week of sub-zero temperatures the ground is finally thawing, but the cold clear skies of the previous days are now filled with an impenetrable shroud of white grey cloud. At this early hour of Sunday morning the shops are just opening and the traffic has barely got started. Walking up the pedestrian ramp …
Six years ago I thought I just liked a few drinks now and then. I looked forward to what is now jokingly referred to as “wine o’clock”. Little did I realise at the time, but wine o’clock had turned me into a slave. After a particularly nasty crisis, drinking binge and resultant hangover, I realised …
Even though I’m 60 plus and a grandmother, this is what it’s like for me almost every time I leave the house. Wolf-whistling, leering and muttered comments about my appearance no matter what I’m wearing (although that should be irrelevant.) Track suit, trainers, hair up, hair down, no-make up, whatever. There’s always something. It often …
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I have a true story about one of my books, specifically the cover to my novel My Adventures in Cyberspace. Dana was in her early forties and married to a multi-millionaire French banker. She lived in a stunning house looking over Lake Como, the interior design of which she had just supervised. From the outside, …
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Here’s how I responded to just one of many incidents of sexual street harrassment that happen to me almost every time I leave the house. You can use this tactic too, to reduce your attacker to shame and embarrassment. Cycling back from the pool and I pass a Mark Zuckerberg lookalike standing at the bus …
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