Chaplin Books

18/04/2025

An editor's work is nothing if not varied. In the last month or so, we've been editing an historical novel, a volume of poetry, an academic work on gender, and two children's adventure stories. Next up will be a children's picture-story book about a dog. But will editors be eventually replaced by Artificial Intelligence?

01/02/2025

Chaplin Books author Tizi Hodson ('To Live is To Fly') is hitting the headlines again, this time in today's Guardian.

I remembered anxiously waiting for a reply, the disappointment when it never came – and all the adventures I went on after that letdown

05/01/2025

At Chaplin Books, we're keen readers, as you might expect - and usually each like to read about 70 books in a year. Lately, we've noticed that people have been logging their 'books read' list on Goodreads and many are claiming over 350 books in a year. On closer examination, many of these are audio books. Does that still count as reading ... or is that something different? (listening? consuming?) What do you think?

23/12/2024

Chaplin Books wishes all its readers and authors a very happy Christmas. May all your presents be books!

17/11/2024

A fun guide to proofreading. The 'good grief' mark would have come in handy over the last week or so, as we are proof-reading a lengthy historical novel whose author feels exclamation marks - we're talking multiple ones in a single sentence, adding up to many thousands in the course of the novel - are the best way to create emphasis.

08/10/2024

Chaplin Books author Tizi Hodson is used to being in the news for her motorcycle stunt-riding, falcon-training, and solo aeroplane acrobatics, but this time she's made the news for getting a reply to a job application that she made ... nearly 50 years ago!

The Post Office returns a letter discovered 48 years after Tizi Hodson applied for her dream job.

29/07/2024

We're pleased to be working on The Progressive Pilgrim, a round-Britain handbook on radicalism (historical and current) by Alan Burnett.

03/05/2024

If you missed the launch event last week for 'How Can You Eat That?', then there's still an opportunity to meet the author, Lily Johns, and chat to her about her book, at Lee Hub Community Library on Saturday 11 May.

14/04/2024

Make a date for Saturday 27 April - and register to come to this fascinating evening in Stubbington (Holy Rood church hall) when Chaplin Books author Lily Johns will be talking about her extraordinary journey into - and out of - anorexia.

25/12/2023

Chaplin Books wishes all its authors and customers a Merry Christmas. May your presents all be books!

09/11/2023

We've produced two poetry books by Portsmouth poet Wendy James over the last few years, so it's satisfying to complete the trilogy this month with 'The Return'.

08/11/2023

Looking forward to the launch tonight of How Can You Eat That? At the moment, the paperback is only available direct from the author, Lily Johns, but an ebook version will be out later this month.