can also be used as an anaesthetic . . .

Janice Bedwitter (right) author of the best-selling 'Teen Nurse Nancy' 

series of romantic novelettes receives the Red Rose Award from 

Literature Lite for her contribution to the arts.  Her sixty-third Teen 

Nurse Nancy novelette 'Emergency Nurse Nancy'  is published next

 month, described by her editor Literature Lite's Wendy Scott-Bunion

 (left) as 'a perfectly lovely little book - they're the sort of stories you 

can just read and you don't have to think about"

if that doesn't work she takes off the housecoat . . .

In a desperate attempt to halt dwindling sales of the ill-fated

'Collected Sermons of Eminent Victorian Bishops' in ten volumes

her editors suggest that noted historian Astoria Wainscot add a little

glamour to her book jacket photographs.

and she lodged a complaint with the Jockey Club

Famous travel writer Pansy Dunlop is forced to retire injured

abandoning her attempt to retrace the footsteps of her great hero

Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'

for the Sunday Times when - shortly after this picture is taken -

the brute throws her and gives her a good kicking at the start 

of her journey on Margate Sands.

and the Hallmark Medal for Poetry goes to . . .

The girls from the Paddington Poetry Speed Writing Team (seen here

 with their coach Fanny Forester) raise a glass of sweet sherry 

in celebration of winning the regional heats to qualify for the finals

of the Strict Tempo Light Verse Olympic Sprint at this year's exciting

Isle of Wight Literary Festival.  "We're confident of taking the medal

- these girls can rhyme in double-quick time," declared Fanny,
a legend in the greetings card industry.

and he does his own hair and make-up

Charlie Chisel the celebrated thriller writer, athlete, adventurer,

mercenary, explorer, mountaineer, bush pilot, sharp shooter, deep sea

diver, big game hunter, columnist, wit, historian, wine expert, wrestler

TV celebrity, gourmet, cigar enthusiast and award-winning fashion

designer  (seen here at another literary luncheon) announces that he

plans in future to get "some little scribbler" to bang out his blockbusters

 since he's just too busy 'being Charlie'

he looks better in costume

A rare photograph of the world's best-selling romantic novelist

Lettice Silk-Gussett, seen here at home with her devoted companion

Cyril.  Ms Silk-Gussett has used Cyril as the inspiration for her most

hot-blooded heroes, including dashing Hector Haunch, Highwayman,

Captain Challenger and Diablo the Pirate from her Buccaneer series. 

another look at Mrs Slocombe's pussy

After the failure of veteran French cookery writer Colette de Belbeuf

to publish her classic recipe book 'Cooking with Horses' in Britain, 

she's soon encouraged to try again with her beautifully  illustrated 

'Cooking with Cats - favourite recipes from South-East China'

Colette was confident of success. "In England they are crazy for pussy"

she announced.  "She is everywhere cheap and plentiful."