Catherine Czerkawska

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Novelist
Location Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Introduction I write historical and contemporary novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction. I live in a Scottish country cottage with my artist husband. I love gardening and I also collect and deal in the fascinating antique textiles that sometimes find their way into my fiction.
Interests Writing, antiques, vintage perfumes, textile history, gardening, plant lore, local history, family history, art, cinema, theatre, the supernatural, folklore
Favorite Movies ET, It's a Wonderful Life, Speed, Meet Me in St Louis, Chicago, Some Like It Hot, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cinema Paradiso, Dirty Dancing, Evita, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, John Wick and many more.
Favorite Music Dylan, Baez, Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, the Eagles, Queen, The Beatles, John Lennon, Martin Taylor, the Dubliners, Chopin, Beethoven, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Strauss, Puccini.
Favorite Books Wuthering Heights, Anything by Dickens, All the William Books, Diary of a Nobody, anything by Barbara Pym, Benson's Lucia Books, Rebecca, Lord of the Rings, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City and The City, Gillespie and I