Shropshire War Memorial, Sites of Remembrance by Peter Francis will be launched on 27 October at Shrewsbury Library. A complete gazetteer of all Shropshire war memorials with a wealth of historical and anecdotal background, we have been delighted to be associated with this very worthwhile project.
The Man Booker Prize for Commonwealth novels, won previously by Commonwealth writers such as Salman Rushdie, is about to open its doors to include American writers. This appears to be, at least partially, in response to the new Folio Prize which is open to all writing in the English language and starts next year. There is an article in the Independent which explains in further detail.
Interesting article in Guardian books mapping the locations of Man-Booker-prize novels, written by Nick Sidwell, digital publishing manager at Guardian Books. Given that all entrants for the prize must come from Commonwealth countries there’s a curiously nostalgic character to the map.
Our offices at Bishop’s Castle in South Shropshire are a few yards from the Town Hall and the Town-Hall clock, subject of a recent report in the Daily Mail. Passions are running high over a suggestion that the ancient clock should be made to restrict its chimes. We rather like them, but that’s just us. We’re just to the left of the picture.
The former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has added his voice to a campaign for organ donation. In a 19-line poem”Host Organism”, described on the Guardian website, Williams – now master of Magdalene College, Cambridge – takes an oblique line on transplants, imagining surgeons as gardeners and donors as “unnamed birds”. The poem is intended to assist National Transplant Week, running until 14 July.
We are planning to launch a new Imprint called Lives in Print .
This will be a collection of Self-Published Biographies, Histories and Memoirs.
If you would like to know more about Lives in Print,
get in touch by email at enquiries@youcaxton.co.uk
The closing date for entries for this art book prize is 31 July. Kaho Kojima’s ‘A Drop of Cloud’ won the 2011 Exhibition prize.
This indispensable guide to the publishing industry is now available, also a Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook is due to be published in August. Orders before 31 July carry a 25% discount.
