Sarah Knights Photography

14/08/2024

Me, on holiday with Peter back in 1974, in the south of France

07/08/2024

www.sarahcatherineknights.com

Sarah Knights is a novelist and short story writer

07/08/2024

If you've been wondering whether to buy my new memoir, 'Love, Honour and Annoy' but thought £1.99 was too much, you could buy it today for only 99p. Less than a coffee ... or ice cream ... or a sandwich!

Buy it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7SJ3MWG

06/08/2024

I’m a British novelist and live in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. I’ve lived here since 1985, with my husband, Peter and three children and various dogs. The reason we moved here was because Peter was in the Royal Air Force and we were posted to RAF Lyneham. We were then posted to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus at the beginning of the nineties, which was to prove a catalyst for my writing.

I’ve had various careers during my life – secondary school English teacher, financial advisor, portrait and wedding photographer and teacher of English as a foreign language to business people. It took me sixty years to realise I should have been a writer all along, but having started, I now can’t stop.

I did an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012 and I’ve now self-published seven books. One of them is a children’s book, based on my current Labrador, Mabel’s, obsession with balls. It’s called ‘Marvellous Mabel and her Amazing Ball’ – but my main genre is Women’s Fiction. I love writing about families and relationships, secrets and tensions; about female friendships and emotions … and women’s resilience. The ‘Aphrodite Trilogy’ is set in Cyprus, as is ‘The Life Series’. My standalone novel, ‘Love is a State of Mind’, is set closer to home, in Bath, but it also nips over to Australia.

I’ve just released my memoir, ‘Love, Honour and Annoy’ - a humorous reflection on my very long marriage. I’m now working on a new novel, with the working title, ‘Cyprus Sunset’ and a book of short stories.

My three children have flown the nest, of course, but often come home for chaotic weekends of dog walks, laughter and noisy meals around the large kitchen table. The whole family have been very supportive and patient with my late career change as a novelist, always willing to help with the plot or reading a new draft.

I love reading and always have a book on the go: Clare Chambers, Ann Tyler, Kristin Hannah, Elif Shafak, Matt Haig, Jeanine Cummins, Meg Mason, David Nicholls are just a few of the authors I’ve read in the last few months. I’ve just started ‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver.

06/08/2024

Here’s a little bit about me, as my ‘other’ persona - writer of (mainly) women’s fiction, Sarah Catherine Knights

I’m a British novelist and live in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. I’ve lived here since 1985, with my husband, Peter and three children and various dogs. The reason we moved here was because Peter was in the Royal Air Force and we were posted to RAF Lyneham. We were then posted to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus at the beginning of the nineties, which was to prove a catalyst for my writing.

I’ve had various careers during my life – secondary school English teacher, financial advisor, portrait and wedding photographer and teacher of English as a foreign language to business people. It took me sixty years to realise I should have been a writer all along, but having started, I now can’t stop.

I did an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012 and I’ve now self-published eight books. One of them is a children’s book, based on my current Labrador, Mabel’s, obsession with balls. It’s called ‘Marvellous Mabel and her Amazing Ball’ – but my main genre is Women’s Fiction. I love writing about families and relationships, secrets and tensions; about female friendships and emotions … and women’s resilience. The ‘Aphrodite Trilogy’ is set in Cyprus, as is ‘The Life Series’. My standalone novel, ‘Love is a State of Mind’, is set closer to home, in Bath, but it also nips over to Australia.

I’ve just released my memoir, ‘Love, Honour and Annoy’ - a humorous reflection on my very long marriage. I’m now working on a new novel, with the working title, ‘Cyprus Sunset’ and a book of short stories.

My three children have flown the nest, of course, but often come home for chaotic weekends of dog walks, laughter and noisy meals around the large kitchen table. The whole family have been very supportive and patient with my late career change as a novelist, always willing to help with the plot or reading a new draft.

I love reading and always have a book on the go: Clare Chambers, Ann Tyler, Kristin Hannah, Elif Shafak, Matt Haig, Jeanine Cummins, Meg Mason and David Nicholls are just a few of the authors I’ve read in the last few months. I’ve just started ‘Demon Copperhead’ by Barbara Kingsolver.

I love modern music and listen to Coldplay, Sam Smith, Billie Eilish, Tom Walker, George Michael and Ed Sheeran, just to name a few! On the active side, I love walking, swimming (in the sea if possible, but I do lengths in the pool to keep fit) and going to the gym; I spend hours ambling through the surrounding fields with Mabel and as I walk, I think about my next writing project. I’ve always had dogs and can’t imagine life without one.

06/08/2024

Have you ever had a look at my website? Probably not, as I just don't promote it enough!

Please take a look - I've just spent hours updating it. Give me any feedback you have and if you spot any glaring errors, I'd love to hear about them.

Do share it with anyone who you think might like my books.

Sarah Knights is a novelist and short story writer

18/07/2024

14/07/2024

Very happy to be Number 56 in the category of Biographies and Memoirs of authors. I’ve also got a few 5* reviews, so I’d love you all to give it a try.

Love, Honour and Annoy: A humorous memoir about a (very) long marriage

Love, Honour and Annoy: A humorous memoir about a (very) long marriage eBook : Knights, Sarah Catherine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

10/07/2024

Hollyhock

10/07/2024

Pilton

30/06/2024

So, tomorrow, Monday, 1st July, sees the publication of my memoir, 'Love, Honour and Annoy' on Kindle. (The paperback is coming very soon. Watch this space.)

I'm excited and a little nervous! This is a complete departure for me: nonfiction, personal and humorous. I would love you all to take a punt and read it and even review it for me. It's always difficult when you first publish a book, when it has zero reviews.

I'm hoping some of you may enjoy it – I certainly loved writing it. It gave me the opportunity to reflect on my life and wonder how we've got so old. In my head, I'm still twenty ...

By the way, Peter has given me his full permission to take the mickey out of him, which I have done, relentlessly. But ... I also do the same to myself, so I don't feel too guilty. Life's too short to be taken too seriously. You may as well laugh at it.

If you don't like it, keep it to yourself. If you like it, tell your friends and give it a 5* review.

If you want to risk reading it, buy it here: https://amzn.eu/d/04lD6pYB

24/06/2024

Have you ever wondered how on earth two people can be together for fifty years? It seems like a miracle to me and I’m living it.

In 'Love Honour and Annoy', I try to figure out how Peter and I have survived such a long partnership. We met, by chance, in 1970 and despite me getting cold feet and postponing the wedding for a year, we got married in 1976 and embarked on this incredible journey together. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t all been love and roses. We’ve annoyed each other intensely a lot of the time, but we’ve also been best friends, produced three amazing children and found our way through the bad times.

This memoir doesn’t reveal the secret of a perfect marriage, but our stories will hopefully make you laugh and you’ll see why, despite everything, we're better together. It is a humorous and heartfelt reflection on life and marriage, from the perspective of a seventy-one year old woman, who feels she’s only just getting started.

Pre-order 'Love, Honour and Annoy' on Kindle today. A funny memoir that will make you think about the inevitability of getting old.

Paperback coming soon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7SJ3MWG

23/06/2024

So … here is the reason I’ve been posting photos of ‘us’. I have written a memoir called LOVE, HONOUR AND ANNOY about our very long marriage.
We met in 1970 and married in 1976. We’ve been together ever since, often annoying each other intensely 🤣 but we’ve made it through and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on how we did it. I hope it will make you laugh. And by the way … I had Peter’s full permission to take the mickey out of him relentlessly 😂
It’s available to pre-order now for £1.99.

Get it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7SJ3MWG if you live in the UK. Or here if you live elsewhere: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7SJ3MWG

22/06/2024

19/06/2024

Thomas Knights and I went to see such a brilliant play at the RSC in Stratford last night - Kyoto. Written by Tom’s two super talented friends, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and directed by Steven Daldry. I really recommend it to anyone. Funny, dynamic and thought-provoking.

27/05/2024

LIFE HAPPENS by Sarah Catherine Knights is FREE today and tomorrow. You’ve got nothing to lose - give it a try! ❤️

Life Happens: Book 1 of the Life Series. A novel about love, family and friendship, set in Greece. The perfect holiday read. eBook : Knights, Sarah Catherine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

03/05/2024

My author page and bio on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/sarahcatherineknights

Hi there and welcome to my Author Page. Thank you for having a look at my books – I hope you find something there you like.

I’m a British novelist and live in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. I’ve lived there since 1985, with my husband, Peter and three children and various dogs. The reason we moved there was because Peter was in the Royal Air Force and we were posted to RAF Lyneham. We were then posted to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus at the beginning of the nineties, which was to prove a catalyst for my writing.

I’ve had various careers during my life – secondary school English teacher, financial advisor, portrait and wedding photographer and teacher of English as a foreign language to business people. It took me sixty years to realise I should have been a writer all along, but having started, I now can’t stop.

I did an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012 and I’ve now self-published seven books. One of them is a children’s book, based on my current Labrador, Mabel’s, obsession with balls – but my main genre is Women’s Fiction. I love writing about families and relationships, secrets and tensions; about female friendships and emotions … and women’s resilience. The ‘Aphrodite Trilogy’ is set in Cyprus, as is ‘The Life Series’. My standalone novel, ‘Love is a State of Mind’, is set closer to home, in Bath, but it also nips over to Australia.

My three children have flown the nest, of course, but often come home for chaotic weekends of dog walks, laughter and noisy meals around the large kitchen table. The whole family have been very supportive and patient with my late career change as a novelist, always willing to help with the plot or reading a new draft.

I'm currently working on a new novel and my memoir.

Follow Sarah Catherine Knights and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Sarah Catherine Knights Author Page.

29/04/2024

Please take a look at my Amazon Author Page for an updated bio, all my published books and book recommendations.

Follow Sarah Catherine Knights and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Sarah Catherine Knights Author Page.

03/04/2024

https://amzn.eu/d/0ZJhJUt
Love is a State of Mind is only 99p today! Give it a read!

Love Is a State of Mind: A humorous, uplifting story of a woman's second chance at life and love eBook : Knights, Sarah Catherine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

28/03/2024

Brand new cover for Love is a State of Mind. Sometimes you have to go with your gut and change a cover.

For those of you who haven’t read it yet, ‘Love is a State of Mind’ is a humorous and uplifting story about getting a second chance at life.

Even though I wrote it, I really love it (I re-read it recently and because I’m always working on my next book, I’d sort of forgotten it - which is weird, I know).

I wanted the cover to reflect its positive view on life and also mirror some of the trends in women’s fiction covers. I noticed in my ‘stats’ that the conversion rate for this novel was good - ie - when people read the blurb, they bought it. So, in order to attract more people to click on it, it needed a better cover.

I love the vibrant colours and the swifts flying away to warmer climes.

I’d love anyone who reads this to share my post, so it gets seen by more people! Thank you in advance x

If you want to read something that will make you laugh (and maybe cry) and give you hope for the future, give it a try. It’s not about Cyprus this time - but there’s a long section set in Australia.

Love Is a State of Mind: A humorous, uplifting story of a woman’s second chance at life and love

28/03/2024

Sometimes you have to go with your gut and change a cover.

For those of you who haven’t read it yet, ‘Love is a State of Mind’ is a humorous and uplifting story about getting a second chance at life.

Even though I wrote it, I really love it (I re-read it recently and because I’m always working on my next book, I’d sort of forgotten it - which is weird, I know).

I wanted the cover to reflect its positive view on life and also mirror some of the trends in women’s fiction covers. I noticed in my ‘stats’ that the conversion rate for this novel was good - ie - when people read the blurb, they bought it. So, in order to attract more people to click on it, it needed a better cover.

I love the vibrant colours and the swifts flying away to warmer climes.

I’d love anyone who reads this to share my post, so it gets seen by more people! Thank you in advance x

If you want to read something that will make you laugh (and maybe cry) and give you hope for the future, give it a try. It’s not about Cyprus this time - but there’s a long section set in Australia.

Love Is a State of Mind: A humorous, uplifting story of a woman's second chance at life and love

Love Is a State of Mind: A humorous, uplifting story of a woman's second chance at life and love

22/03/2024

Peter and Mabel

19/03/2024

in The Crown.

16/03/2024

Can Mabel change her behaviour, with the help of a group of friends?

Marvellous Mabel, a lovable Labrador, is obsessed by her amazing ball. It’s her favourite thing in the world.
But it’s becoming a problem, because she can’t think about anything else.
When George, a wise old police dog, suggests she joins the VOA group (Various Obsessions Anonymous), Mabel meets a friendly mix of dog friends with crazy obsessions of their own: there’s Biggles, the squirrel chaser; Queenie, the food thief; Doris, the hole digger and Boris, the letter snatcher.

Through this heartwarming tale, they must all learn the magic of balancing their addictions to find true contentment.
'Marvellous Mabel and her Amazing Ball' is a story that celebrates how a problem can be much easier to solve with the help of others.You can find happiness together - you just have to ask for help.

Buy 'Marvellous Mabel and Her Amazing Ball' today and find peace and love with friends.

Marvellous Mabel And Her Amazing Ball

08/03/2024

My book has a new blurb, so I thought I would share here. Do let me know in the comments if you have read it.

Aphrodite's Child: Escape to Cyprus – a woman's new life in the Mediterranean leads to love, secrets and an impossible choice

Kindle Edition
by Sarah Catherine Knights (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 375 ratings

Book 1 of 3:

Will a new life on a beautiful Greek island lead to the end of a seemingly perfect marriage?

Emily, a mother of two, dreamt of having a third child. When she joins her husband on Cyprus at the beginning of the nineties, she hopes that she can persuade Luke that three children will make their family complete. Little does she know that Luke has been lying to her about their future.

It takes her a while to adjust to her new life, but as she grows in confidence, she begins to love the island. She embraces new experiences, makes new friends and re-discovers herself. A chance encounter with a handsome, single man, however, thrusts her down a dangerous road and her life begins to spiral out of control. Her dreams of getting pregnant never fade but when she eventually finds out about Luke’s deceit, their marriage seems doomed.

A tragedy within their friends' circle puts her own dilemma into perspective and makes her realise that she’s lost all sense. Can she rescue her marriage or will her actions mean that her family will never be the same again?

This is a story of secrets and impossible choices. Set against the stunning backdrop of sun-soaked Cyprus, you too will fall in love with Aphrodite's island and be captivated by this gripping family drama.

Buy ‘Aphrodite's Child’ today, the first book in the Aphrodite Trilogy and be transported to the heat and passion of Cyprus, the island of love.

Aphrodite's Child: Escape to Cyprus – a woman's new life in the Mediterranean leads to love, secrets and an impossible choice eBook : Knights, Sarah Catherine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store