Home

Hello, I’m Jacqui

I was born in the province of Ulster and spent my formative years there before following my parents to England. I left school at the age of sixteen, going back into education in my early thirties. After a long career in the world of litho print, I returned to university to study photography.
For nearly ten years, I competed internationally as a creative photographer, winning many awards and having my work published worldwide. As a natural progression, I became a judge on the British camera club circuit.
In 2020, I self-published my first book at the age of seventy-seven. To date, I’ve written five books in a variety of genres, including domestic noir, Irish historical sagas and cosy mystery. Now an octogenarian, I live in Nottingham with my partner of forty five years.

Books have always been a large part of my life. Like many solitary children, I read voraciously, tearing through our small, local library, reading my way through every section of their limited stock.
At university, I immersed myself in English Language and English Literature before becoming designer, proof-reader and editor at a printing company specialising in art catalogues.
In retirement, I broadened my love of the written word by becoming a writer. So it came as a nasty shock when my eyesight began to deteriorate and life became a little grey and blurred at the edges.
Now, in preparation for what is still to come, I have turned to the world of audiobooks and podcasting, chronicling my journey here rather than on my other blogs, which are devoted to my writing and my book reviews.