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RORY O’GRADY is one of the
exciting new Kent authors who has
recently joined The Conrad Press. He
travelled extensively during his life
and has now settled in Canterbury
to write.
The Passionate Imperialists,
published in 2018, is a fascinat-
ing biography of Sir Frederick
Lugard, adventurer, explorer and
the first Governor of Nigeria,
and his wife Dame Flora Shaw,
the first woman colonial editor
of The Times. It tells the inspiring
story of two major figures in Victorian England
who lived through times of profound change
between 1858 and 1945.
Rory is working on his next intriguing book
recounting the stories of thirty-one crew and
passengers on a flight to Naples involved in a fatal
mid-air collision with an Italian fighter near Rome
in 1958. It will be published by The Conrad Press
in the autumn. www.theconradpress.com
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