{"id":18369,"date":"2026-05-11T06:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18369"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:46:20","slug":"kyle-tennant-the-somme-and-roo-waterhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/05\/11\/kyle-tennant-the-somme-and-roo-waterhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Tennant, ‘The Somme’ and Roo Waterhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This weeks random author\u200f is Australian Kathleen ‘Kylie’ Tennant 12\/03\/1912 to 28\/02\/1988) She was born in Manley, NSW and became a novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian. PAN published three of her titles namely X87 ‘The Battlers’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>, MP67 ‘Australia: Her Story’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and a later printing of ‘Australia: Her Story’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and finally a Piccolo ‘All The Proud Tribesman’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amongst the many David Tayler roughs I recently acquired was a pencil one for ‘The Somme’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> by A H Farrar-Hockley. The background is very similar but the larger characters at the front are not included on the finished cover. General\u00a0Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley (08\/04\/1924 to 11\/03\/2006) was born in Coventry. He was a\u00a0British Army officer, nicknamed ‘Farrar the Para’ and a military historian who fought in a number of conflicts and ended his career as Commander-in-Chief\u00a0of\u00a0NATO’s\u00a0Allied Forces Northern Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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With the Hay on Wye<\/span> Literary Festival<\/span><\/strong><\/a> almost on us I got an email from<\/span> Roo Waterhouse<\/a><\/span><\/strong> to say she has been chosen to be the artist decorating this years tote bags. Her three designs include Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit and Agatha Christie as it is 50 years since she died.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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This weeks random author\u200f is Australian Kathleen ‘Kylie’ Tennant 12\/03\/1912 to 28\/02\/1988) She was born in Manley, NSW and became a novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian. PAN published three of her titles namely X87 ‘The Battlers’, MP67 ‘Australia: Her Story’ and a later printing of ‘Australia: Her Story’ and finally a Piccolo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}