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Caroline Kennedy

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Born

in Godalming, Surrey, The United Kingdom

April 30

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http://www.anywhereiwander.wordpress.com

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Biography, History, Crime

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A born traveller. A born writer. Not sure which order of importance. My heroine, early on, became the writer, adventurer, diplomat, Arabist - Gertrude Bell. Like her I feel "as comfortable sitting in a palace with kings as I do squatting with nomads in a tent in the desert." Or, in my case, squatting with indigenous tribes in the mountains of the Philippines and Costa Rica!

I have lived and worked in many countries, as a writer, a model, an actress, a TV presenter, a columnist, a radio producer, an humanitarian aid worker, an environmentalist, a journalist and an author. Now I can add to that list - babysitter for my two grandchildren.

The researching and writing of my two books about Stephen Ward have taken up almost five years of my life. I ...more

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AS YOU WISH - Inconceivable Tales about the Making of the Princess Bride

My nephew, Cary Elwes, has written a book about the making of his cult movie, The Princess Bride. With interviews with all the stars and lots of behind the scenes stories, this will be a best-seller and become a collector's item. Be sure to reserve your copy in advance. It is due out in October on Amazon.
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Average rating: 4.31 · 45 ratings · 22 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	How the English Establishment Framed Stephen Ward by Phillip Knightley, Caroline Kennedy (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1987 — 9 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
	I'LL BE THERE: Vignettes of an Intrepid Traveller 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 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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Manhattan Murder Mystery

by Alix Kirsta (Goodreads Author)

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Archipelago: A Balkan Passage

by Robert Isenberg (Goodreads Author)

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Caroline Kennedy said: " There were two things that immediately attracted me to this book. The first that it was written by an eager young adventurer, Robert Isenberg, looking for answers to a war he didn’t understand in a country far removed from his own. And the second, th There were two things that immediately attracted me to this book. The first that it was written by an eager young adventurer, Robert Isenberg, looking for answers to a war he didn’t understand in a country far removed from his own. And the second, that the war Isenberg wanted to find out more about was the 1992-1995 war in the Balkans that resulted in the break-up of the former Jugoslavia. I identified with the author even before opening the first page. This was because I have always thought of myself as an eager young adventurer looking for answers (although not so young now) and also because I worked with refugees in Bosnia and Croatia during that very same war that so intrigued Isenberg that it became his mission to travel the length and breadth of the Balkans to learn the truth.

What impressed me most about this book was that in just two short weeks Isenberg managed to capture the spirit, the flavour, the culture, the strengths and the prejudices of a people with a very checkered and very complex history that has often baffled even the most ardent of foreign journalists and historians.

There are some lovely anecdotes too. His description of the murder of Franz-Ferdinand, Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire, is possibly the most literary I have ever read. Isenberg captures the moments before and after the assassination in a way that makes the reader feel like he/she was actually there, a witness and participant, on that fateful day that precipitated the horror that became the First World War.

Isenberg writes about the shelling of the beautiful Byzantine city of Dubrovnik, the pearl of the Adriatic, my other’s birthplace, with the very same degree of horror and sadness I felt. “Ancient masonry chewed by missiles, yachts exploding in their docks. Clouds of black smoke vomiting from the centre of noble monuments, Renaissance palaces gushing flames. Nuns panicking. Women sobbing. Middle-aged men bruised and bleeding.” These TV News images from 1992, Isenberg so vividly describes as a 12 year old boy, were the very same that I was watching, haunting images of a city I loved, images that compelled me to drive relief trucks down to Bosnia and Croatia for the next three years until the war came to its bitter end.

Isenberg is curious. He is observant. He is an astute questioner and an avid listener. He is determined to learn as much as he can in the short time he is there. He observes everything. He talks to everyone from all sides of the conflict. His keen eyes and ears miss nothing. And all the time he is memorizing his surroundings, his conversations and his unique experiences. He is taking notes, he is recording and he is writing religiously every day. If ever there was a lesson on how to write a travel book, this is it. Another Rory Stewart, perhaps, is born!

I have learnt from “The Archipelago – A Balkan Passage” that not only is it possible to write a book about a trip of just two weeks, it is also possible to make that book a very worthy tome useful to fellow travelers, scholars and historians alike. I didn’t’ think it could be done. But I was very wrong. This book has something for everyone. It is delightful, informative and genuine. A fellow traveller and adventurer has successfully accomplished in two weeks what I never accomplished in my three years working with refugees in the Balkans during the war. I am grateful to Isenberg he has inspired me to finally sit down and work on those missing chapters of my autobiography. ...more "

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Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

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A story that was long waiting to be written. The story of four loyal men, each with their own character, talents, strengths and idiosyncrasies who came together behind enemy lines in dangerous times, during World War II and the Cold War, to fight for ...more
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Reading this book I could only imagine that had I stayed in England rather than travelled for so many decades, this is how my life would have turned out. Writing was in my very DNA, as it obviously was in Alix Kirsta’s. Her descriptions of the Golden ...more
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A powerful novel, now reprinted thanks to Exploding Galaxies, that illustrates so well the divisions war can and does cause within, not only communities but within families. I have seen up close these same divisions caused in Bosnia and Croatia where ...more
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