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The Book Mill We are a small, independent publisher, based in the north of England, specialising in E-books and POD. Literature, History and Art.

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Jeopardy, a new historical novel by Kathleen Jones, is now available for pre-order. As the novel opens, it’s 1066. The o...
19/09/2025

Jeopardy, a new historical novel by Kathleen Jones, is now available for pre-order. As the novel opens, it’s 1066. The old king lies dying and England is without an heir. Four war-lords are eyeing up the prize. Four women stand to gain or lose from the result. What must they do to survive? It's sub-titled 'Three Queens, One Throne, and a Poet'. The book is available from all distributors, world-wide on October 1st.
It can be pre-ordered on Kindle from Amazon on https://tinyurl.com/48njp6wx
and in paperback from Ingram distributors here https://tinyurl.com/354ynnnn

It's 1066. The old king lies dying and England is without an heir. Four war-lords are eyeing up the prize. Four women stand to gain or lose from the result. What must they do to survive? Queen Edith, childless, about to be stripped of her position in the court, supports her brother Harold Godwinson'...

Words and Music Martyn Halsall will be reading from his poetry collection The Weather Door, published by The Book Mill i...
17/09/2025

Words and Music

Martyn Halsall will be reading from his poetry collection The Weather Door, published by The Book Mill in 2023, in an evening of words and music performed with The Brampton Consort in the medieval church of St Peter’s, Bywell, Northumberland on Saturday, September 27 (7 pm.).

The poems, many using as foundations the sea areas of the BBC’s The Shipping Forecast, will be woven through an evening of unaccompanied, piano and organ music, including works by Vaughan-Williams and Elgar which the Consort will perform. The Weather Door was acclaimed as a ‘beautiful and at times elegiac collection’ by Dr Penny Bradshaw, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria.

The Scottish writer and academic Margaret Elphinstone, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Strathclyde University, said the collection was ‘eloquent and polymathic in its embrace of landscape and belief, folklore and wildlife,’ marking ‘a contemplative journey following the weather round the British Isles’.

Tickets for the concert (£10, to include a wine reception) can be bought at the
church on the night, or booked in advance by going to
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/FEUO

The Weather Door: a gentle evening of music and poetry
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The Weather Door: a gentle evening of music and poetry
An evening of music and poetry from the wonderful Brampton Consort, interspersed with poetry from Stocksfield poet Martyn Halsall's 2023 collection...

An evening of music and poetry from the wonderful Brampton Consort, interspersed with poetry from Stocksfield poet Martyn Halsall's 2023 collection...

Kathleen Jones' new memoir, Reading My Mother, will be available on 15th September. Pre-order print copies from Bookends...
04/09/2024

Kathleen Jones' new memoir, Reading My Mother, will be available on 15th September. Pre-order print copies from Bookends, Keswick or Carlisle here: https://www.bookscumbria.com/product/uk-books/biography-uk/reading-my-mother/
It's also available to pre-order from Amazon on this link: https://tinyurl.com/38uf5aba

In this haunting memoir, Kathleen Jones, acclaimed biographer of Christina Rossetti, Katherine Mansfield, and the women of the Wordsworth and Coleridge families, turns her forensic gaze on her own life – exploring how she fell in love with books, and how she overcame poverty, rural isolation, rigid class barriers and a tumultuous family, to become first a reader and then a writer.

With mixed Italian, Scottish and Irish heritage, Kathleen’s family had plenty of strong characters. They also had secrets, including illegitimacy, illicit love and even paedophilia. But in this memoir two very different women take centre stage – a mother held in a social and religious straitjacket, and a daughter who rebelled against the forces that kept women ‘in their place’.

After her mother Ella died, Kathleen found some tiny notebooks in a 1940s crocheted bag. They listed every book her mother had read for sixty years, since the end of the Second World War. Ella was a compulsive reader. In remote crofts and farmhouses beyond the reach of electricity in Cumbria, she taught Kathleen to read and helped her discover a world of story and adventure. Kathleen and her mother had little in common. Reading was almost the only thing they shared – but it became their salvation.

In this haunting memoir, Kathleen Jones, acclaimed biographer of Christina Rossetti and Katherine Mansfield, turns her forensic gaze on her own life – exploring how she fell in love with books, and how she overcame poverty, rural isolation, rigid class barriers and a tumultuous family, to become ....

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