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About Geraldine Murfin-Shaw

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I am a Yorkshire writer living in Lancashire since 1982. I have led a full and happy life and am currently engaged in writing up all my experiences. I am interested in astrology, tarot, drumming, gardening (particularly food growing), cooking, eating, walking, swimming, cycling, cycle-camping holidays on the continent - for which I would welcome company. I like talking to people who have something to say, but avoid like the plague those who don't. I have been married four times - anyone wanna make it five?

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At Least She Never Drank Much
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Geraldine grew up in restrictive Cleckheckmondsedge, and was part of the rebellious rock n roll generation. Running off to... More > London at 18, she met and married a sailor in under three weeks. Six years later she was a single mother in a rundown farmhouse on the edge of Ilkley Moor, fending for herself and her two children. This is a story about 60s and 70s Britain, with its short skirts, free love and hot jazz, where children grew up free and untrammelled among streams, woods and fields. Geraldine worked as an office ‘temp’ and was a magnet for men, who drifted in and out of her life, contributing little apart from their entertainment value, though some stuck around long enough to marry her. Later, she followed her passion for cooking, training in hotel management and working as a Head Chef, an unusual position for a woman even now, and in the 70s and 80s, almost unheard of. Geraldine experienced the best and worst that the industry has to offer. Her tales of the kitchen are among the best in the book. < Less
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Val Kirkham: The Collected Poems
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Val Kirkham is a Yorkshire poet now living in Lancashire. This is a collected edition of her life work so far. It is... More > wide-ranging and varied. She knows a great deal about the pain and pleasure of love, and writes about it with searing honesty. She trained as a chef and has worked in a zoo, a banqueting outfit, a mediaeval castle, and an American college. In 1982 she decided to hang up her apron and devote herself to writing, saying she would go back to work when she got bored. She has not got bored yet. She was a performance poet in the 80s, in the North West. Adrian Henri once gasped at one of her poems, and the editor of Lancashire Life called her "the predatory sexual voice cruising in the fast lane of poetry". She sprang to national fame after reading poetry in a jacuzzi. She has been on radio and tv. You will be thrilled, chilled, brought to laughter and tears by this woman's perception and insight. If you are a prude or object to strong language, better pass this one by. < Less
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Four Geminis and a Jacuzzi
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Tired of looking down holes in the road for a 'real' man, Sally can't believe her luck when she finds one on a building... More > site. Rough, bearded and covered in cement dust, he is just what she is looking for. But Jimmy Pinchbeck is the site owner on his day off, and turns up to take her out wearing an Italian suit and white shoes, and driving a Merc. He is nuts on blondes, crazy about Abba, and appointing Sally as chef at his sordid sports club is all his dreams rolled into one. Read about shenanigans with staff and jollies in the jacuzzi as the club lurches from one financial crisis to another and Jimmy talks his way out of everything, while Sally struggles to hold the catering enterprise together and defend her staff from his depredations. Unforgettable characters in this book are Anna, the green-eyed girl chef who has Sally's heart in a whirl - Michael the Irish joiner - and Hector the hilarious guesthouse proprietor. < Less
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A Complete Guide for the Management of Bees
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Reprint of an 18th Century book by the celebrated showman Daniel Wildman, who performed on horseback, standing with one leg... More > on the horse's back, one on his neck, with a swarm of bees about his face. Daniel trained the bees himself and sold hives of his own design, bees and honey at his London premises < Less
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Riding with Angels
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In 2011, to celebrate 70 years on this planet, I set off to ride the Rhine Cycle Path. On the way, I decided to actively ask... More > the Angels for help when I needed it. What I found was amazing. They delivered on the nail, every time! Only sometimes I was too stupid to see it . . . < Less
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The Curious Cook's Book
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A modern kitchen manual for the man or woman who wants to feed herself, himself, the family, or each other sensibly and... More > well. It contains advice on equipment, stores and cooking methods and has a comprehensive selection of recipes fully explained by a woman who has been housewife, mother and professional chef.

A good starter cookbook for novices, it will also intrigue and delight the experienced cook. Geraldine’s style is light but thorough - she never leaves you with a pan in your hand wondering what to do next. She will have you producing economical, varied and nutritious meals in no time, and the skills you develop will enable you to branch out in any direction you wish. The world, you might say, is your oyster.

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The Curious Cook's Book
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A modern kitchen manual for the man or woman who wants to feed herself, himself, the family, or each other sensibly and... More > well. It contains advice on equipment, stores and cooking methods and has a comprehensive selection of recipes fully explained by a woman who has been housewife, mother and professional chef.

A good starter cookbook for novices, it will also intrigue and delight the experienced cook. Geraldine’s style is light but thorough - she never leaves you with a pan in your hand wondering what to do next. She will have you producing economical, varied and nutritious meals in no time, and the skills you develop will enable you to branch out in any direction you wish. The world, you might say, is your oyster.

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Sweet Chef
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After a year at the Cook’s Academy, Sally is handed a certificate of competence and slung out onto the job market. At 35,... More > she wonders who will employ someone so overqualified and under-experienced, so jumps at the chance of a job in the Zoo, where she quickly finds that the chefs are more dangerous than the animals! Sweating in the intense heat of one of the hottest summers on record, Sal develops muscles as she rolls pastry for pies that would gladden the heart of Desperate Dan. Inevitably, the kids Cleo and Alex manage to escape their grandmother's clutches and turn up at the zoo, posing Sal a problem, not least in the romance department, Cleo now an extremely beautiful fifteen year old, knocking her mother into the shade, and throwing the monkeys into fits of jealousy when their keeper gets the hots for her. Add the Entertainers - re-enacting a bizarre 17th Century hanging every night, and you have a mix that is hotter than dynamite! < Less
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Mrs Jackson Rides Out
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after a chaotic career in catering, the irrepressible Sally Jackson hangs up her apron and sets out to discover how normal... More > people spend their time. But normal people take cover when they see her coming, and she meets only sexual deviants, ufo enthusiasts and the certifiably insane. Falling over witches on a daily basis, she decides to join them. After a naked initiation into the Sisterhood of Wicca, run by an unemployed Father of Nine, she surprises him by taking the whole thing seriously, embarking on a magical career which she expects him to share. There are many by-roads on the path to Wicca, and this wouldn't be a book about Sally without her usual sexual peccadilloes - Gustav Prendergast the Performance Poet, Gareth Jones the sexbomb sports instructor, Horst the Hairy Hun - to mention a few. The Star Turn is undoubtedly the Father of Nine, whose fund of stories rivals the Arabian Nights. An uproarious romp, a tantalising mixture of witchcraft, sex and humour - just the thing for a wet weekend in Wigan < Less
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Fresh Out of the Pan
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Two husbands under her belt, Sally enters the Cooks' Academy at the age of 34, determined to make a career for herself in... More > catering. Coping with the demands of her two children, plus the punishing schedule set by the charismatic - but deadly - Dr Fisher would be more than enough for most people, but her problems don't stop there! Hounded by Social Security, persecuted by her landlord, tormented by her growing obsession with the sexually rampant Dr Fisher, Sal muddles through with no very clear plan of action - apart from her deep-seated belief that the kitchen is her spiritual home. The adventures of Sally and her fellow students and the very real hard work they do in the kitchen, are told at a fast, racy pace - the way Sally lives her life. Whatever you think of Sally's morals, you can't help admiring her guts, her determination to stay the pace . . . . and her cracking love life! < Less
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