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Jonathan Bradley Author & Editor

Jenny is a writer with a successful career in business. She writes in a variety of genres. A published poet and short story writer, she recently won an award for flash fiction. Her radio plays have been broadcast on the BBC. Writing has been published in anthologies, websites and in the Bristol Post where she was columnist for a year. Her literary agent obtained an offer from a publisher for her first novel.;Jenny loves writing and has written creatively for a lifetime, both to reflect on experiences and for the simple joy of it. Travelling alone round the world for seven months in 2007-2008, blogging http://jennysworldtripno1.blogspot.com/ was a way of recording her experiences, keeping in touch and making sense of what she was experiencing. She now lives on the North Somerset Coast. Jenny reads at events and is a judge for Poetry on the Lake.; Jonathan Bradley has been writing and reading poetry from an early age. This is his third book of poems to be published. The first two were of poems inspired by butterflies: Papiliones (Choir Press, 2017) and A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies (Merlin Unwin, 2020). His poems have been included in several other books, and he has made a number of public readings of his work at literary events. He has also contributed articles to The Countryman, This England, and Atropos, among other magazines and periodicals. He is a Director of The War Poets Association. Jonathan divides his time between Bristol and the Languedoc in southern France, and has travelled widely during a varied professional career. He shares a love of the natural world and the need to care for it with his sister, Jenny.