Golden Duck (UK) Ltd.

Golden Duck (UK) Ltd. Independent Publishing company Essex-based book publishing company set up by writers Francis Wheen and Julia Jones.

The main photograph shows the arrive of Wee Nook - our office and storage facility. Our first title was The Adventures of Margery Allingham published in 2009.

An excellent post-Christmas rant from Heppel about the C of E's cloth-eared mucking about with the words of Christmas c...
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...

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

Today's post on the Authors Electric blog spot reminds me how grateful I feel to Price and Roberts for founding this g...
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...

Feeling delighted with a present I just bought from Claudia Myatt Illustration. It's a long slim print of the River Deb...
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

Really good Christmas list of sailing books from Katy Stickland Practical Boat Owner. Of course I'm thrilled that From t...
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

At the moment Amazon has the descriptions of our latest book titles in a muddle. We're really proud of these three varie...
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.

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Sokens, Green Street, Pleshey
Chelmsford
CM31HT

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Essex-based book publishing company set up by writers Francis Wheen and Julia Jones. The main photograph shows the arrive of Wee Nook - our office and storage facility. Our first title was The Adventures of Margery Allingham published in 2009. There are now 16 on the list, including more Allinghams and the Strong Winds series. Julia also reviews for Yachting Monthly magazine and plans to share some of her recommendations here.