Welcome to Liz Coward’s website

Liz Coward is a published author and produced scriptwriter with 14 years writing experience. She is best known for writing Blood and Bandages – fighting for life in the RAMC Field Ambulance 1940-1946 with William Earl and What makes us Human? with Alison Lapper MBE.

Liz is also a non-practising solicitor and co-director of RCAS Ltd for which she works as a writer, speaker and teacher. In 2017, Liz moved to Singapore with her family, since when she has written for several publications, delivered book talks and written two writing courses. She is currently developing her short play, Shakespeare’s Sister and has just joined the screenwriting team at Triality Productions.

Liz regularly returns to the UK for work and family commitments.

Blood and Bandages

‘Superb account of William Earl’s career as a Nursing Orderly in various WW2 campaigns.’
Books Monthly

‘A ‘full story,’ factual yet interspersed with the human element that evokes the raw emotion both on and off the battlefield. This is far more than just a ‘military’ history.’
Rob McIntosh, Museum of Military Medicine

‘This meticulously researched and well-written book provides a rare insight into the role of RAMC medical orderlies whose work saved so many lives in the Second World War.’
John Broom, Historian and author of Fight the Good Fight – Voices of faith in the First World War and Fight the Good Fight – Voices of faith in the Second World War.

‘In Blood & Bandages, Liz Coward and William Earl have created a war memoir that places the vital, yet often overlooked, role of an RAMC Field Ambulance in the context of the wider conflict. Through his unflinching memories of the desperate struggle to save lives in North African and Italian campaigns, Earl reveals moments of understated courage and comradery, laying bare his lowest moments, his rumination on the terrible cost of war, and the pain of being separated from his young wife.’
James Hoare, Freelance writer and historian

‘I have just finished reading Blood and Bandages and found it very moving and atmospheric. It is very well written. Liz Coward and William Earl take the reader on an unforgettable journey and I was quite bereft when the book came to an end.’
Dr Penny Starns, Historian and author. Titles include, Odette : World War Two’s Darling Spy, Sisters of the Somme, Oceans Apart and Combat Medicine.

What makes us human?

In 2012, Liz published a series of blogs on disability and one was on Alison Lapper MBE.

Alison Lapper is an artist and campaigner. She was born with phocomelia, a rare congenital deformity in which a child is born with no, or shortened, arms and legs. Alison graduated with a first class honours degree in Fine Art and was awarded an MBE for services to art in 2003. She gained international fame when she appeared in the long running BBC documentary series Child of our Time with her son Parys.

Read the blog on Alison Lapper here.

Alison was asked to contribute to What makes us Human? the landmark BBC Radio 2 series in 2013 and commissioned Liz Coward to write it with her. The essay was broadcast on the BBC that October and appeared in The New Statesman.

Read it here.

‘I have been visiting a client in Bath this morning and on the way back listened to the Radio 2 broadcast by Jeremy Vine. The guest speaker was Alison Lapper and the subject matter was “what makes us human”. I had never heard of Alison Lapper before but she managed in 10 minutes to connect with me and many others…’
– Barrie Jenkins, Radio 2 listener and blogger.

‘My editor and I both love this. You’ve fulfilled the brief wonderfully. Thank you.’
– Priya Shah, Producer, Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2.