Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: March 08, 2010

Candida Slater


Publisher info

Candida Slater joined the British Diplomatic Service on leaving university. She attended the General Assembly of the United Nations and various UN conferences as a member of the British delegation. She was a member of the team which negotiated Britain’s entry into the EU. She married a fellow diplomat, Duncan Slater and resigned when he was posted to Brussels. She was a diplomatic wife for twenty years, with postings in Brussels, Vienna, Nigeria, Oman and Malaysia. After her husband died, she rejoined the Foreign Office and served for another four years. In 2008, she published ‘Good Manners and Bad Behaviour – the Unofficial Rules of Diplomacy’, which was included in David Cameron’s summer reading list for MPs as a key, and very funny, insight into the workings of diplomacy. She is now editor of online magazine, Global Newsbox (www.globalnewsbox.com), which encourages the arts and creative writing, and carries stories, reviews and poems contributed by readers and the editorial team. GNB are also publishers under the imprint GNB Publications. She has three children.

Where to find Candida Slater online

Website: http://www.globalnewsbox.com

Where to buy in print

http://amazon.co.uk

Publisher of



High Society    by Sandra Aragona
Price: $4.99 USD. 13610 words. Published by Candida Slater on March 25, 2010. .
Keeping up international relations is not as easy as you might think. Until the end of 2009, British born Sandra Aragona was Italian Ambassadress in London, and before that in Moscow. In this funny and observant book, she gives the lowdown on high society, and the perils and pitfalls of life in the diplomatic fast lane.
Under my Patchwork Quilt    by Violet Fulford Williams
Price: $4.99 USD. 45790 words. Published by Candida Slater on March 24, 2010. .
Taken as a child from South Africa to rural Devon; a young bride in India in the last days of the British Raj; Vi’s house in Lisbon during World War 2 becomes a clearing house for refugees. She meets the family ghost, a Mutiny baby and a Texan millionairess, and her ambulance, escaping from war-torn France. This charming book brings a vanished world vividly to life.

Books

The Sky Pirates    by Candida Slater
Price: $4.99 USD. 2700 words. Published on March 25, 2010. Fiction.
An adventure picture book for children aged 4 to 7. Adam and Ben are taken prisoner by Captain Aloysius Brown and his dastardly crew of sky pirates on board the Golden Flea, and sail with them across the Seven Heavens in search of gold and plunder.
The Pearls of Feisal    by Candida Slater
Price: $4.99 USD. 70350 words. Published on March 25, 2010. Fiction.
An adventure story for children aged 10 and over and anyone who enjoys a rattling good tale. Hassan and Ali find a great treasure deep inside an Arabian mountain, but mercenary soldiers have already been sent in to seal the caves. Tom and Kitty are taken prisoner by returning rebel leader Suleiman. Can Hassan save them, Ali and the Pearls of Feisal?
Good Manners and Bad Behavior    by Candida Slater
Price: $4.99 USD. 41770 words. Published on March 9, 2010. Nonfiction.
The Unofficial Rules of Diplomacy - and what happens when it all goes horribly wrong. Candida Slater was a British career diplomat and diplomatic wife. Through hilarious stories of an eventful life, she lifts the lid on what diplomats do, why they do it and how they deal with the most important things of all - parties, etiquette and damage limitation.

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