In the last couple of months, poets Andrew Forster, Mary Robinson and Fernando Smith have all had new collections published and have been busy promoting them with readings. Andrew and Mary are both published by Flambard Press – find out more about Territory and The Art of Gardening on Flambard’s website here.
As an introduction to Andrew Forster’s poetry, see him reading on The Poetry Channel.
Fernando Smith’s Welcome to the Golden Life is out from Searle Publishing – click here for more information (and to buy), and sample some of Fernando’s poems on The Poetry Kit website here.
Ex-pat poet Clare Crossman, who lived in Brampton for many years before migrating to the deep south, has a new collection out from Shoestring Press. Some of the best work in The Shape of Us maintains her Cumbrian connections, including fine elegies for fellow poet William Scammell and for the artist Lorna Graves. Find out more, and find some poems, on Clare’s website.
On the fiction front, Windermere writer Deborah Swift’s first novel is just out from Macmillan New Writing. Set in Westmorland in 1660, The Lady’s Slipper takes its title and its inspiration from our rarest flower, the Lady’s Slipper Orchid, which grows in the limestone country around Silverdale. For more information visit Deborah’s website. For a for chance to win a free copy visit the Historical Tapestry blog, where Deborah writes about her passion for shoes and invites you to do the same …
Next on the list is crime writer Zoe Sharp’s latest Charlie Fox adventure, Fourth Day, published by Allison & Busby. Zoe’s ex-Special Forces-turned-bodyguard heroine is described as a female answer to James Bond. In this latest thrill-a-minute outing she heads undercover into the Californian stronghold of the secretive and shady cult known as Fourth Day, with explosive results. Try-before-you-buy by reading exerpts here.
Finally, and about as far away from Charlie Fox’s escapades as it’s possible to get, Angela Locke’s chronicle of a life-changing journey through the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal, On Juniper Mountain, is published by O Books. Angela’s experiences in Nepal led to her founding the Juniper Trust, which supports education and health initiatives in the poorest communities all over the world. Read more about the book (which has a foreword by Sir Chris Bonnington CBE) here. See also www.junipertrust.co.uk
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