Annabel Venning

Annabel Venning is a British author and journalist. She was educated at University College, Durham. After working at the Daily Mail 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 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles).

Venning divides her working time between journalism including travel writing - and books. She has two adult children and lives in Wiltshire.^[1]

Bibliography

• Following the Drum (2005), ISBN 0-7553-1259-7
• To War with the Walkers (2019), ISBN 1-4736-7930-3

References

1. "Annabel Venning". Pew Literary Agency. Retrieved 8 June 2018.