PAGES FROM LOST NOTEBOOKS: In Print

Two new books are available - my travel adventure The Memory of Dreams, and a collection of images called Places and Spaces.

They can be previewd and ordered from Blurb BookSmart Inc at the following links:

The Memory of Dreams

Places and Spaces

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Long Stories

Long Stories and Novels

Most of the longer stories were based upon real experiences. Yet they have a certain poetic licence applied to them.

Dear Rebecca is an account of a journey made to Europe during the northern winter of 1998-1999. It is accurate in that it describes the places and events, and that there are many Rebeccas, but the letters were never sent.

Dear Rebecca by Douglas Wilkie |

The Memory of Dreams is an account of another journey made to Europe in the European Winter of 2000-2001. The places described were visited, most of the people described were met, but did not necessarily all of the things described happened in quite the way the story tells it.

Family Histories

Family Histories

The Cossticks is the story of the Cosstick family from origins in Sussex, England during the 1600s through to the emmigration of one family to the Victorian goldfields during the 1850s and the subsequent growth of that family in Victoria.

The Hamiltons is the story of a branch of the ancestors connected to the Cossticks. It traces the Hamiltons from their origins in Kent, England during the 1700s; the illustrious life of Sir John Hamilton at Dover, Kent; and the emmigration of one branch of the family to South Australia in 1837 where the Hamilton's Ewell Winery was established by one branch of the family while the other journeyed to the goldfields of Victoria and met the Cosstick family.

The Wilkies is the story of the Wilkie family from Scotland during the 1700s; through the generations who worked in Glasgow of the Industrial Revolution; through the involvement of the family in the Great War of 1914-1918; to the emmigration of one of the branches of the family to Australia.