Annabel Venning is a British author and journalist. She was educated at University College, Durham. After working at the ''

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'' in London, she left to write ''Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present'' (2005). In 2019 she published her second book, ''To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War''. Venning is the granddaughter of General Sir Walter Walker, a senior British soldier in the post-World War II period. Her father, Richard Venning, was a lieutenant-colonel of the

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. Venning divides her working tine between journalism including travel writing - and books. She has two adult children and lives in

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Bibliography

*''Following the Drum'' (2005), *''To War with the Walkers'' (2019),

References

Living people British journalists Alumni of University College, Durham {{UK-journalist-stub