Lucy Simister: 13 books

This is a biographical account of the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a personal and yet domestic telling of her life in Devon. It describes the highs and lows - certainly losing her brother on a boating trip out of Torquay Harbour affected her writing intensely.  Her defiance against her father's...

A personal insight in to the life of John Keats, his thoughts, his friends, where was his life going?... his poetry said it all. He was a hothead, short to temper, but so completely focused on becoming a poet, he had a vision, an image of himself. Fashion mattered, frilly cuffs mattered and he was prepared...

This is a three part story. Firstly Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages, secondly, his own history - his life as a child and a teenager (and also his family life and his relationship with the remarkable Ada Bryon), and thirdly what inspired him to want to build a computer and his life as an inventor.

Charles Dickens was an abrupt, excitable young man driven to succeed. He would always be distressed by the humiliation he experienced as a young child, at the hands of his frivolous parents. His Parents were well off and educated coming from middle-class backgrounds and he enjoyed that standard of living....

Charles Dickens was an abrupt excitable young man driven to suceed. He would always be distressed by the humiliation he experienced as a young child, at the hands of his frivolous parents. His Parents were well off and educated coming from middle-class backgrounds and he enjoyed that standard of living....

This is a book that looks at her life under a microscope for the few precious years of her life when she was staying in Torquay. It is also a social history of Torquay in the Victorian times. It gives you a domestic insight into her everyday life by describing what she could see around her, who her...

This is a three part story. Firstly Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages, secondly, his own history - his life as a child and a teenager (and also his family life and his relationship with the remarkable Ada Bryon), and thirdly what inspired him to want to build a computer and his life as an inventor.

This book spotlights Charles Dickens connections with Devon and Cornwall without which a very different life story would have emerged. At 23 he settled his parents in Alphington in Exeter as a way of avoiding the debtors but it was not long before his father was up to his old tricks again. His father believed he was the 'great unpaid' and had co-written the novels with his son.

This is a three part story. Firstly Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages, secondly, his own history - his life as a child and a teenager (and also his family life and his relationship with the remarkable Ada Bryon), and thirdly what inspired him to want to build a computer and his life as an inventor.   

Charles Dickens came to the Westcountry as an up and coming journalist. He rented a house for his parents in Alphington.  He returned with friends for a pub crawl of a lifetime after his tour of America. That was on reflection the happiest time of his life. It was to be inspirational...

Elizabeth Barrett's stay in Torquay was to be catalytic in shaping her output over the rest of her life. The good times - her exposure to the intellectual elite of the day - and the bad times - losing her brother in a boating accident - were pivotal. This book concentrates on her social and domestic life - which gives an intimate insight into the real Elizabeth - the person and the poet.

Chateau Du Lac is comedy, with some romance, lots of travel, a bit gritty in parts, a good read.

The Jolly Sailor is a pirate comedy drama for teenagers. It is based around a group of friends known as the Posse, among them is William who is not the adventurous type, and that is just how his father, a customs officer, had arranged it - if he had known that his mother was Gracie O'Donnell - the Pirate...