Alison Baxter, Author of “A Fatal Choice” at 7pm on Thursday 1st October 2026.
Alison’s Cornish ancestors were sailing in and out of the Cumberland Basin throughout the middle of the nineteenth century. Her two times great-grandfather, who appears in her nonfiction book, A Cornish Cargo, made the news when he had the bright idea of transporting boxes of fresh Cornish broccoli to sell in the St Nicholas market. His oldest son settled in Bristol, started trading in wines and spirits, and rented a smart villa in Clifton. It was a tragic death in his family home that became the inspiration for Alison’s novel, A Fatal Choice.
Alison is a historian with a passionate interest in the lives of ordinary people, especially the forgotten stories she finds in the newspaper archive. She worked in educational publishing and the charity sector before returning to full time study to complete an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She went on to gain a PhD in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Alison has written articles for magazines and journals and published two nonfiction books. A Cornish Cargo is the story of her Victorian seafaring ancestors and Another Song at Sunset is a biography of her grandmother, a Scots poet and the dedicatee of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song, Scotland’s favourite novel. A Fatal Choice is Alison’s first novel.
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