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Alison Baxter

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Oxford, England

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Biography, Historical Fiction, Family History

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May 2026

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I've always been fascinated by history, but I only started to write about it in later life. In my twenties, I travelled the world as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language before returning to the UK to work in educational publishing. I then ran a charity in my home city of Oxford, but after I retired, I changed direction once more to become a writer at last. In 2020 I published my first book, 'A Cornish Cargo', about my seafaring ancestors, and was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Since then I've published another non-fiction title, 'Another Song at Sunset', and 2026 sees the publication of my first historical novel, 'A Fatal Choice', which is based on a true story I found in the newspaper archive. I am passio ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 119 ratings · 22 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The USA 3.53 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fatal Choice 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cornish Cargo: The untold history of a Victorian seafaring family really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Alison Baxter (Goodreads Author), Jean Baxter (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alison Baxter made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — DONE Please move book to correct author profile topic " My author profile only shows my self-published books. Please can you add A Fatal Choice: A haunting novel about power, silence and the devastating cos ...more "
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