Simon Jenkins, writing in the Sunday Times, about Britain’s latest moves to protect against terrorism describes the country as “not a police state, but a nation with police state tendencies.” This is the key issue that Kat Polinski has to tackle in The History Book. In one of the latest reviews, Jim Randolph, from the Up Against the […]
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Lancaster, Ohio — population 36,000
What are Kat’s links with the very special city of Lancaster, Ohio? Kat’s grandfather, Peter Vincent Polinksi, came from Biala Podlaska in eastern Poland. He was granted refugee status to settle in the United States on April 17th 1945 and got a job as a driver at the Lockbourne Air Force Base, near Columbus. He married Kat’s grandmother, Kathleen Mary […]
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In Chapter Eleven, Kat meets a tall, swaying woman, with a stutter and limp. It’s a fleeting introduction to one The History Book’s most compelling characters. The woman is Liz Luxton and she has cerebral palsy. As medical science improves, more of us will have a friend or loved one with cerebral palsy. Check it out on this brilliant […]
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I’m getting a lot of questions about Kat Polinski, the History Book protaganist. Is she based on someone I know and where does she get her grit and skills. Some years back, I met a bright, beautiful and articulate young woman whose family had been wiped out in just one day, and I asked her how she […]
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Hi and thanks for visiting. Send me your thoughts on The History Book or any of my reports that you can reach from the left hand side of this page. One thing that keeps us going is lively debate. This is the big moment for The History Book, when Kat Polinski, its hard-driving, unsettled protagonist, […]
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