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32 I CUTHEROEADVERTISER&TIMES VALLEY THRILLING READ •I 4 •-r-?S i • Barry’s witchcraft story iSks global ® / b y E r i c B e a r d s w o r t h


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Thriller writer Barry Durham hopes to go global with asu- pernatural crime novel that sets modern-day murders again a Pendle Witches back-


j, ground.


Former journalist Barry, who lives at Chipping, self-pub­ lished his first novel “The Demdike Legacy” two years ago, and now it has been taken up and re-published by Ameri­ can company Glannant Tty and made available for worldwide distribution. Barry, a grandad of three,


who is currently writing his fourth novel, came across the American specialist paranor-


, mal media company’s website while on the internet and de­ cided to get in touch. He submitted “The Dem­


dike Legacy” in which a mur­ der in a Lancashire village re-ignites a legacy of witch­ craft thought to have died out 400 years before, when the Pendle Witches were hanged at Lancaster Castle ini6i2. Barry said: “I submitted the


manuscript for Demdike and they said they would do it and it now gives me a foothold in America. “It just seemed to fit in with


them.” The Demdike Legacy com­ bines modern-day detective


work with historical witch­ craft and old-world spirit­ ual practices in which the . descendants of the Pendle Witches live on, secretly fol­ lowing the old ways and keep­ ing quietly to themselves. But it seems someone is in­


tent on finishing thejob start­ ed four centuries earlier. As the death toll rises, the


descendants of the original Pendle Witches are forced out of hiding, and assist the police in hunting down the killer before they are com­ pletely wiped out. Readers have praised the


novel, calling it “fantastically researched”, “well-paced and excitingwithafascinatingin- ' sight into the original Pendle Witches” and “Gripping from beginning to the end!” Barry was born in Man­


chester in 1947, educated at ' North Manchester Gram- . mar School and Salford Technical College where he studied maths, physics and chemistry for a while before getting bored with applied mathematics and dropping out. - He was an insurance clerk for a few years before trying his hand as a salesman, but he says his first love of writing kept getting him into trouble as he was often found scrib­ bling down ideas for stories when he should have been working. After marrying his wife


Barbara in 1968 they moved to the Preston area and he


obtained the post of junior reporter on the Garstang Cou­ rier at “the ripe old age of 23”. Thelast40-oddyearshave


seen Barry work for newspa­ pers and other'publications in the Lancashire area, as well as a stint as a press officer and he


‘ has had several short stories and freelance articles pub­ lished. Barry Has been a reporter,


feature writer, sub-editor, editor and group editor and more recently an associate lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston where he taught newspaper and magazine design to post graduate level foranumberof years until budget cuts forced his final retirement. Barry’s second novel is


“Familiar Territory” and his third one Fell Creatures (set on Beacon Fell) and he is also now writing some children’s books after his grandsons asked him to write for them. The Demdike Legacy is


now available in both soft cover and e-book formats on Glannant Ty’s website (www. glannantty.com), Amazon, com, Barnes & Noble.com, iBooks, and other online re­ tailers.


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Ribblesdale Camera Club members have one thing in common-theirkeen interest in photography- but other­ wise their interests are many and varied..


This makes for some very in­ teresting and entertaining presentations by members on how their photography im­ pacts on other areas of their lives and travels. Members Trevor and Les­


ley Marklew recently visited Uganda to see gorillas, but had much to talk about a country which has made great strides in the 36 years since the dark days of Idi Amin. Lesley and Trevor flew a


day early to see the Kasubi tombs, not on the itinerary. Their first night out of Kam­ pala was in a simple bungalow, where the sounds of the night were impressive but impossi­ ble to photograph! Inthemorningtheywalked


in the Bigodi Marsh nature reserve with the chance to photograph Weaver Birds, Baboons and Chimpanzees, the last looking uncannily like people you knewbutjust can’t quite place! A school was next visited


and photographs were taken at the equator. Green Monkeys were common here and the day ended at the well-known Kingfisher Lodge. In the morning it was real­


ised that the Lodge is situated on the edge of a cliff 250 me­ tres above the plain with lions,


buffalo and Impala. Then to the Bwindi Impen­


etrable Forest, the third World Heritage Site of the week. The high point of the trip was fi­ nally reached: the Gorilla trek. One of the four local families of Gorillas is now ac­ customed to visitors, but the parties must be small, not get too close to the animals and must maintain total silence. A maximum of one hour was allowed. As there is great demand,


a 4-30 am start was neces­ sary, but Lesley and Trevor’s group were lucky and able to photograph the family. Oth­ er people were not so lucky, with very few and only distant sightings - an expensive dis­ appointment as the entry to the reserve was £300 per per­ son, put towards the preserva­


tion work. In comparison with the chimpanzees, thegorillas were not at all interactive and seemed totally disinterested inthevisitors.Theyhadyoung with them, babies becoming mobile at two months but suckled for three years. The trip continued, with a


visit to an.adobe (sun-baked clay) brickworks and a boat trip to Bwama Island in Lake Bur.youyi and Lake M’Buro National Park where both Pied and Malachite Kingfish­ ers were photographed as well as Impala and Zebras. The fi­ nal attraetionwasawalkback into Kampala! The club meets onTuesday


evenings at the Grindleton Pa­ vilion. See the programme and galleries of members’ work at: www.ribblesdalecameraclub. org.uk


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In something of a coup for a smallerorganisation,Ribbles­ dale Camera Club was lucky and privileged to welcome Tim Pile, from Birmingham, to talk about his photography and show many of his Gold Medal winning prints. Tim is one of the UK’s top


international exhibitors and has recently been the subject of a major article in the Royal Photographic Society’s Jour­ nal.


Previously he was an IT


man, doing a skilled job but one that did not call for artistic ability. After a break, he came back to photography with a modest ambition of finding a personal style. He tried in­


fra-red filters and other ways of getting “different” images, but none were fulfilling. Hewasdiscussingthiswith


two ladies at his camera club who persuaded him to come with them to one of their por­ traiture and figure shoots. Tim found his hidden talent and has never looked back, with his portfolio of portrai­ ture, fashion, wedding and ar­ tistic figure studies. He said that he ensured


what he had in mind was tak­ en exactly. This avoided much work with Photoshop and of­ ten none. At one point he com­ mented that “this was my most successful image with 10 gold medals at international pho­


to salons-until a few days ago when this other picture won three injust one weekend!” It was very obvious from


Tim’s work that his success is due to a fascination in natural and human form and their con­ trasts and similarities. He finds spectacular rock formations and puts into them a small fig­ ure to emphasise the compari­ son. A beautiful garden with an alcove is seen tohave a figure on the seat. Often the image has a simple message. C ombine all that with exem­ plary presentation and the


judges correctly see a work of art which is superior to oth­ er entries. Recently he was top of an entry of more than


3,000 entries from 120 differ­ ent countries. He only works with models who are creative and it’s a partnership getting the final image. He says that he has an advantage: all photog­ raphers hope that the viewer will glanee around their image and eventually settle on an in­ teresting detail. Put a person into that place and everyone ends up looking at the person! ■ For more of Tim’s work


see his website: www.timpile. co.uk • Ribblesdale Camera Club


meets on Tuesday evenings at the Grindleton Pavilion. See the programme and galleries ofmembers’workat:www.rib- blesdalecameraclub.org.uk


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