Fika With Vicky Welcomes Guest Julia Brannan - July 13, 2023

Fika with Vicky’s guest this week is author Julia Brannan. She’ll be speaking to us from Scotland, as we focus on her series, The Jacobite Chronicles, a page turning historical adventure. Julia has been a voracious reader since childhood, using books to escape the miseries of a turbulent adolescence. After leaving university with a degree in English Language and Literature, she spent her twenties trying to be a sensible and responsible person, even going so far as to work for the Civil Service. Being able to escape into the world of great books came in very useful then! And then she gave up trying to conform and resolved to spend the rest of her life living as she wanted to, not as others would like her to. She has since had a variety of jobs, including telesales, teaching and gilding. In her spare time she is still a voracious reader, and enjoys keeping fit, gardening and travelling the world. Life hasn’t always been good, but it has rarely been boring. In 2014 she decided that rather than just escape into other people’s books, she would actually like to create some of her own, in the hopes that people would enjoy reading them as much as she does writing them. It seems that they do, and she has now published several historical novels, and has also branched out into contemporary fiction too. In 2019 she moved to live in rural Scotland with her cat Constantine, and loves living there, going for long walks in the breathtakingly beautiful scenery and writing novels about the turbulent history of this fascinating country. Want to know more? Here’s a link to Julia’s website. https://juliabrannan.com/