In July 2021, Wendy was invited to the postponed Ways with Words Literary Festival at Dartington Hall in Devon to speak about her friendship and working relationship with the 100-year-old war veteran Captain Tom, who raised almost £40m for the ...

This exclusive interview with the brilliant Phil Williams on the award winning Times Radio aired on March 31. In it, Wendy and Phil talk about Tom's legacy work - Life Lessons - published April 2 to follow on from his bestselling autobiography ...

In this acclaimed first novel by author and former journalist Wendy Holden, Charlie, a war correspondent turned author who is haunted by her worst journalistic experiences, turns to the history of paper and the materials of JMW Turner to distra...

This is the audio only of a video presentation that aired at the end of 2020 featuring Edna Adam Ismail, the 'Muslim Mother Teresa' whose life of selfless devotion is soon to be a film. Her autobiography,  A Woman of Firsts, published by H...

On this the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Wendy Holden author of Born Survivors and One Hundred Miracles, reflects on how our experience of the coronavirus pandemic can impact on our thoughts about this memorial day #LightInT...

A beautiful glassmaker. Two damaged men who love her. Set in exotic Bohemia and the wilderness of an English coast, this is a story of obsession and passion and fear… Wendy Holden explains where she found the unlikely insp...

Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing to her from a jukebox at her local drive-in, Barbara Ann Blakely began her love affair with Frank Sinatra. After a tempestuous courtship, she finally heard him say the wedding vows that began...

Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s people, ...

THE COVID-19 pandemic has caused untold heartache around the world and the subsequent lockdown separated thousands of people from their loved ones. But for one disabled boy and his three-legged rescue dog who captured the hearts of millions, be...

This lockdown podcast was a first for me, a request to answer questions about life lessons as if I were leaving them on a telephone answering machine. In it I talk about Born Survivors, the human instinct for survival, the nature of evil and ho...

Author Wendy Holden tells how miracle Holocaust 'baby' Eva Clarke and her mother Anka survived imprisonment, slave labour and finally murder by gas, as the world commemorates 75 years since the end of WWII and Eva privately marks her 75th birth...

Recorded direct from a Youtube video for the virtual book launch for the new WWII75 commemorative paperback edition of this bestselling book, published in 22 countries. To watch the video go to t https://y...

Young musician Zuzana Ruzickova was just eighteen years old when, after almost six years of imprisonment and slave labour under Nazi rule, she and her mother were liberated from Bergen-Belsen by the British. The date was April 15, 1945, seventy...

Bestselling author Wendy Holden, in coronavirus lockdown at her home in Suffolk, is remaining philosophical about a forthcoming milestone in her writing career that has been badly affected by the pandemic. With the PR campaigns for three new bo...

Having taken part in the London service for Holocaust Memorial Day, attended by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Wendy Holden reads from her international bestseller Born Survivors, now published in 22 countries and translated into 16 languag...

Wendy Holden talks about another of her books, Shell Shock, an exhaustive historical record drawn from the WWI case histories and painful testimony of numerous veterans and their doctors. Individuals tell of events that pushed them to the brink...

Susan Travers was a frail old lady living in a nursing home in Paris when I met her to ask about her remarkable time in the Second World War. What she told me was astonishing and unique. It formed the basis of her memoir, Tomorrow to be Brave, ...

Author Wendy Holden, who has written two books with Goldie Hawn including the bestselling 10 Mindful Minutes, talks about the passion and compassion of her friend and co-author in giving parents and children the emotional and psychological tool...

Author Wendy Holden, also known as Taylor Holden, talks of the inspiration behind her first novel The Sense of Paper.

Author Wendy Holden talks about her latest book, One Hundred Miracles, the acclaimed memoir of Czech musician and Holocaust survivor Zuzana Ruzickova. Describing working with her in Prague shortly before her death, aged 90, in 2017 Wendy paints...

When author Wendy Holden was researching and writing her international bestseller Born Survivors, a true story about three young mothers who hid their pregnancies from the Nazis, she found solace in the simple pleasures of searching for pebbles...