I am very excited to be able to announce that Emma Purshouse will be sharing the stage with Carol Ann Duffy, Mandy Coe and guests at the Manchester Children’s Book Festival on June 16th. The event is sold out – but they are running a waiting list. Plus the festival runs from 23rd June […]
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Emma Purshouse on stage with Carol Ann Duffy, Manchester Childrens Book festival
While we look forward to putting our feet up this weekend…
Louis Munro sets off to Uganda ahead of one of the world’s most gruelling marathons on 5th June; and he will be carrying our children’s poetry book with him! Here’s a photo of him, immediately after finishing one of his regular training runs Good luck Louis! Rather you than me!! And thanks Louis – for sharing I […]
Wilderland review in Amateur Photographer magazine, June 11th issue
Wilderland – Wildlife and Wonder from the Shropshire Borders – Andrew Fusek Peters is reviewed in the June 11th issue of Amateur Photographer magazine About the magazine: Amateur Photographer is the world’s oldest consumer weekly photographic magazine, first published in October 1884. Since then, AP (as it is affectionately known to its readers) has been […]
Waterstones Birmingham stocks our books!
If you walk a short way from New Street Station in Birmingham to 24-26 High Street – you will find a gorgeous bookshop: Waterstones I was so surprised and delighted by it – no wonder they have over twenty thousand people visiting the shop EVERY week. (This branch opened a year ago) It has six […]
Wilderland review in Outdoor Photography magazine, June issue
Have just heard that there will be a review of WILDERLAND – wildlife and wonder from the Shropshire Borders – by Andrew Fusek Peters in the June issue of the Outdoor Photography magazine, June issue – available to buy from June 2nd 2016 : About the magazine: Outdoor Photography is the UK’s only magazine for […]
Marathon Man will start race, holding our children’s poetry book?!
What lovely news … Have just heard from Jill Munro – whose son is running the Ugandan Marathon on 5th June. She says: “Louis has won the prize for raising the most money for the Ugandan marathon over the last 7 days (he held a five a side football tournament for 15 teams) and his […]
Marathon Man hands our Children’s Poetry book to Ugandan children
Isn’t it funny how some things work out?Jill Munro was one of our two Poetry Pamphlet winners this year.She wrote to tell me how pleased she is with the pamphlet The Quilted Universe, and to say she is giving a copy to anyone who donates £5 or over to her son’s Marathon running in Uganda […]
Ahead of the Olympics: Here’s just the thing…
In 2012 Paul Francis had the idea of creating a collection of prose and poetry written by Bridgnorth Writer’s Group and putting some of them in a pamphlet. I was so impressed with the poems about William Penny Brookes – who – along with Pierre Coubertin (have I got that right? am writing this from […]
Sitting Ducks Launches
with a review – by Chairman of Bloodaxe Books, and author of Not Quite White… Simon Thirsk: “Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks lifts the lid on the social curse of post industrial communities in twenty-first century Britain. Her writing cries out with the pain of an underclass whose characters’ lives are condemned by capitalism. This debut […]
