AN audience in Denholme had a chance to find out more about the turbulent life and times of England's King Richard III.

Cross Roads-based author Carol Fellingham Webb, who has written two children's books about this monarch, delivered a presentation at Denholme Community Library.

She said: "It was a lovely morning in Denholme with a very engaged audience. I gave a brief talk, then a reading, which was followed by some fantastic questions from people about King Richard himself, his reputation, his enduring popularity in the North, and about the process of writing my books.

"The scheduled hour and a half ran over to more than two hours!

"I'm very grateful to Annette Bell for organising and publicising the visit."

Ms Fellingham Webb has been invited to Middleham Castle, in North Yorkshire, to help celebrate the 566th anniversary of Richard III's birth.

She said she would also be attending the Moulton Literary Festival, in Northamptonshire, at the end of October.

She added that a collection of works she is compiling will raise money for a charity which helps people who have the same spinal disorder that Richard III suffered from.

"I'm putting together an anthology of short fiction by other authors inspired by King Richard," she explained. "It will be on sale to support Scoliosis Association UK, and will be available in early December, in time to be a great Christmas stocking filler."

Ms Fellingham Webb is the author of The Order of the White Boar and The King's Man, which have been published under her pen name of Alex Marchant.