Sitting Ducks is shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Literary Fellowship Award 2017 – the results of this will be announced in September 2017 It has attracted some great endorsements and reviews – I would particularly like to thank Stuart Maconie, Catherine Burgass, Kit de Waal, Writing West Midlands, National Writer’s Conference, Anna Dreda and the […]
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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 […]
What novel will you be reading next?
Anna Dreda – owner of the award-winning Wenlock Books has been reading Sitting Ducks: Lisa Blower’s debut novel. This is what she has to say about it: If that whets your appetite then pop into Wenlock Books in Much Wenlock, Shropshire ahead of its publication date and pick up your own […]
Independent and full of Heart …
So let’s start at 8 am. This morning – Thursday 11th September 2014. A glorious morning. Mist and sunshine Driving from near Oswestry (our new local town) to Much Wenlock – and I realise, not for the first time that I live in the most beautiful place in the world When I say “realise” – […]
The Blogging Tour
4.3.14 I have just been asked to be part of “the bloggers tour”. Wonderful ! And I have been meaning to have a blog too! I have also been meaning to improve the fair acre press website, so I have decided to create this makeshift blog page, until I have sorted the whole website out. Nadia 13.3.14 […]