{"id":183446,"date":"2025-06-14T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183446\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:48:09","slug":"author-sarah-swatridge-to-sign-selection-of-her-books-at-francis-baily-primary-schools-summer-fair-in-thatcham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183446\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Sarah Swatridge to sign selection of her books at Francis Baily Primary School\u2019s Summer Fair in Thatcham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A retired teacher turned author is planning to visit a primary school in Thatcham to share her work.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Swatridge, who studied history at university, will be selling and signing copies of her books at Francis Baily Primary School\u2019s Summer Fair in Skillman Drive from 3pm to 5pm on Friday, June 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 2963 1951\" alt=\"Author Sarah Swatridge. Credit: Adrian Pope\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"OKDGJ75BJGSWIJI65QXP.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.52\"\/>Author Sarah Swatridge. Credit: Adrian Pope<\/p>\n<p>Her 13 novels can be found in the large print section of local libraries.<\/p>\n<p>But she is probably best known for her short stories.<\/p>\n<p>She now has a collection of 20 uplifting short stories available via Amazon in print or as an e-book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 376 567\" alt=\"An Honourable Wager\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"CH1Z5JZ3VFXEUTDBVJ68.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.66\"\/>An Honourable Wager<\/p>\n<p>Feel-Good Stories is an eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of quirky, memorable characters.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 190 293\" alt=\"Feel-Good Stories\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"T1XT9F730NLH941X4J49.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.65\"\/>Feel-Good Stories<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"www.sarahswatridge.co.uk\">www.sarahswatridge.co.uk<\/a> for the full details.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of magazines such as Take a Break&#8217;s Fiction Feast, My Weekly, Woman&#8217;s Weekly and Best of Woman\u2019s Weekly Fiction often publish her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retired teacher turned author is planning to visit a primary school in Thatcham to share her work.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,29404,2266,77,609,8728,75321,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-183446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-divert-me","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-newbury","14":"tag-thatcham","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114681093217640773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}