The Book Mill

02/10/2025

It's publication day for Jeopardy: 1066, Three Queens, One Throne - and a Poet! It's already climbing up the Amazon ranks for historical novels. Also available to order from all good book shops.

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'...

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...