Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Emma Smith (author) publishers of "The Great Western Beach" republished "Maidens' Trip" in 2009. Due to the success of her first memoir, she was encouraged by Bloomsbury Publishing to write a sequel. This took the form of "As Green As Grass", which was published in 2013, and covered Smith's life between 1935, when she left Newquay at the age of 12, to 1951 when she married. Emma Smith died peacefully in Putney, London, on 24 April 2018, at the age of 94. Her family and friends were around her. Emma Smith (author) Emma Smith (21 August 1923 – 24 April 2018) was an