Golden Duck (UK) Ltd.

21/02/2026

This is good news

Golden Duck announces a new association with German publisher Kontrabande, bringing Nicolette Milnes Walker’s classic Atlantic sailing memoir When I Put Out To Sea to German readers for the first time.

31/01/2026

I was really moved by these children's letters. I would like other people to contribute to Tim Boyes's fundraiser so that they can continue their summer escapes from Birmingham to the Norfolk Broads. Thanks Yachting Monthly for highlighting

19/01/2026

Delighted to see Scapa Ferry reviewed by Charles Coull in The Naval Review

220 pages

01/01/2026

An excellent post-Christmas rant from Heppel about the C of E's cloth-eared mucking about with the words of Christmas carols (and more). Francis Wheen might enjoy this

Happy New Year! And now that Christmas is over, I’m going to try something. Here are a few lines from some of the top famous poems of all...

24/12/2025

This was a great help with Christmas shopping and I've lots o read in the New Year

See the new RDA Journal article in which some of the RDA committee members and magazine contributors share their book finds from 2025.
https://www.riverdeben.org/rda-journal/some-portable-magic/ -9695

09/12/2025

Today's post on the Authors Electric blog spot reminds me how grateful I feel to Price and Roberts for founding this group. Every month it gives me the chance to write about that's on my mind at the time. This month it's a look back at Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory

James Allingham at his desk He worked out the cost of the printing, the office and the distribution and soon became fascinated. He saw the v...

08/12/2025

Feeling delighted with a present I just bought from Claudia Myatt Illustration. It's a long slim print of the River Deben from Wilford Bridge to the Deben Bar. Full of animation and such fun to pick out familiar sights. Available framed or unframed

29/10/2025

Really good Christmas list of sailing books from Katy Stickland Practical Boat Owner. Of course I'm thrilled that From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea and Stars to Steer By made the cut but there are couple of others here which I didn't know about and will certainly be adding to my own Christmas list (or anytime list really ...)

Katy Stickland chooses her pick of the latest sailing books that will keep sailors enthralled

13/10/2025

At the moment Amazon has the descriptions of our latest book titles in a muddle. We're really proud of these three varied and lovely books so I'm going to put correct titles and descriptions in separate posts here. They are all on sale via our own website and also through bookshops.

03/07/2025

Sorry everyone. Our X account has been taken over by 'sexy p**n' - Don't go there!

Instead let me suggest that you visit the GD website and take a look at the River Deben Colouring Book by Claudia Myatt

Author: Claudia Myatt / River Deben Association Publisher: Golden Duck Published: June 2025 Pages: 36 ISBN-13: 978-1899262670

27/05/2025

Have always rather hoped to be asked t write something for Slightly Foxed -- and this issue brings a wish come true

I’ve long admired Slightly Foxed — ‘the real readers quarterly’. I remember their kindness in allowing us to have a party in the basement of their offices in Hoxton Square to celebrate the republication of Jan Needle’s Wild Wood. It was a happy evening in exactly the right place, though we...