Fiona Walker

2 months ago | thebureauinvestigates.com | Fiona Walker

Imagine that every time you go to work, you’re put at risk of a disease that could kill you in 30 minutes. What if the only medicine that can save you isn’t available in the first or second hospital you visit? And when you do track it down, it doesn’t even work. That’s the stark reality faced by rural workers across sub-Saharan Africa, something my editor Fiona and I were growing to understand as we trawled along the coast of Kenya last year on a reporting trip. The disease we were looking into?

Nov 9, 2023 | scledger.net | Sunday Dutro |Fiona Walker |Chad Sivertsen

Do you have any candy left from Halloween? My neighbor made my kids freeze dried candy and I can’t.stop.eating.it. There are these malted chocolate ones that are just unreal. Thank goodness each holiday only comes once a year…. These below freezing temperatures have made for excellent reading weather, and I hope you’ve been able to take advantage of it. I was able to read 11 books in October, of which eight were four stars or better.

Oct 2, 2023 | jerseyeveningpost.com | Fiona Walker

By Fiona WalkerWHY does everyone in Jersey hate motorists? Well, perhaps not everyone, but it certainly seems that life is being made more and more difficult for anyone who has the audacity to get behind the wheel. Take, for example, the increasing congestion in St Helier, clearly caused by the pedestrian crossing between the end of Conway Street and Liberation Square. Of course, we require a crossing there: pedestrians need to move swiftly and safely between the bus station and town centre.

Sep 4, 2023 | jerseyeveningpost.com | Fiona Walker

By Fiona Walker IN a hotel lounge, I am shamelessly eavesdropping on Cliff Richard and Gloria Hunniford as they prepare for a Q & A session at the Edinburgh Fringe. They are mapping out areas of interest for the interview to ensure they will entertain their audience later in the day; it is a conversation that’s going to be made public in a few hours, so I’m not betraying any secrets here.

Aug 28, 2023 | culturefly.co.uk | Fiona Walker

When I was first published in the early 1990s, the glitzy Bonkbuster was riding high in commercial fiction, the Aga Saga cantering alongside. Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz vied for top slot, along with country cousins Mary Wesley and Joanna Trollope. Meanwhile Jilly Cooper alone reigned over the full-blooded rural romp with her riotous tales of rutting in the shires, a British fictional tradition dating right back to Fielding’s Tom Jones.