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Welcome to the Fair Acre Press shop!
We are very very proud of every one of our books – and are delighted that many of them have attracted the eye of award judges and reviewers too, and have been endorsed by people we deeply respect
2020 sees us publishing the highly acclaimed NHS poetry anthology: These Are The Hands – all profits to NHS Charities Together
Also Burke and Hare – the massively well reviewed play by Tom Wentworth
Recent highlights below. But be aware – every one of our books is worth its weight in gold!
POETRY:
These Are The Hands – NHS poetry anthology including poems by Lemn Sissay, Wendy Cope, Michael Rosen, Sabrina Mahfouz – all profits to NHS Charities Together
Keith Chandler’s The Goldsmith’s Apprentice ~ WINNER of the International Rubery Award for Poetry 2018
Ted Hughes Award for new work in Poetry – winning PERSIANS by Kaite O’Reilly
Chris Kinsey’s From Rowan Ridge – a beautiful combination of living with nature and how childhood moulds us; endorsed by the renowned Robert Minhinnick and Fiona Sampson
DIVERSIFLY: poetry and art on Britain’s Urban Birds ~ shortlisted for the International Rubery Award for Poetry & longlisted for the Saboteur Awards Best anthology
#MeToo – a women’s anthology ~ WINNER of the Saboteur Awards Best Anthology; featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row; invited to hold events at a host of festivals and London Book Fair. Raising money for Women’s Aid and awareness and support for anyone who has endured sexual harassment or assault
Emma Purshouse’s children’s illustrated collection I Once Knew a Poem who Wore a Hat ~ WINNER of the International Rubery Award for Poetry 2016
NATURE:
Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring – Wanderings through Nature ~ featured in the guardian’s list of Best Nature Books of 2017; shortlisted for BBC Countryfile magazines’s Best Country Book of the Year & shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries Award.
Andrew Fusek Peters’ Wilderland: Wildlife and Wonder from the Shropshire Borders ~ a five star review from the UK’s biggest selling photography magazine, Amateur Photographer
PROSE:
Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks – shortlisted for the Arnold Bennet Literary Prize
CARTOONS:
Paul Kielty’s Matt Hazard~Return of the Naive – endorsed by the renowned cartoonist Hunt Emerson
We also have some very fine ebooks, and are starting to have fun producing limited edition associated mugs!