Margaret R Kelly

Margaret R Kelly – Writer & Travelling Raconteur 

I write. I travel. I read. I learn. I dream and I live my dream.

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  • Why I’ve included sex scenes in my writing

    Why I’ve included sex scenes in my writing

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Sex is part of the common human experience, and we should write about those, shouldn’t we? I’m always struck by how authors are blithely happy to write shocking scenes of violence or murder (which rarely happens to most of us), yet tell me I’m brave when it comes to writing about sex. Sex can reveal…

  •  IN THE WAKE OF THE LONGBOATS

     IN THE WAKE OF THE LONGBOATS

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    Margaret Kelly
    in

    Holland America 22-day cruise from Copenhagen to Reykjavik The Context ‘I’ve never been keen on cruises and I’m on this Nordic diet,’ I stutter when my friend tells me she’s going on a Holland America cruise. ‘There’d be lactose, yeast and eggs in everything.’   Noisy bands, gaudy atrium full of ageing drunks and spas full…

  • THE VENICE HOTEL by Tess Woods

    THE VENICE HOTEL by Tess Woods

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    Margaret Kelly
    in

    I was excited about reading this book, because I was actually in Venice at the time in which it is set, in the Christmas-New Year period in 2019, just before the World locked down. The stress about cruise ships damaging the delicate city was palpable. I bought the book at Brisbane Airport to read on…