We are delighted to announce that on Saturday 17th June at 5pm we will be in Parma at Common Home, a English-language cultural centre presided over by Tobias Jones. Two of our authors, Maurizio Ascari and Melanie Hughes, will be discussing their books, which are both set before and during the Second World War. The theme of their discussion will be how the...
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Robert Ronsson and Charlie Johnson Out of Such Darkness and Once Upon a Time in Chinatown On one wall of a small room in my house, alongside the certificate linking the room to a latrine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I have hung the two original artworks for my novels published by Patrician Press. Both illustrations are by Charlie...
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Christine De Luca and Wendy Bailey Book covers have always been important to me. This was reinforced by my time in the early days at Usborne Publishing in the 1970s when at every Frankfurt Book Fair we displayed around 40 or 50 covers on our stand to get feedback from potential customers. A marketing exercise initiated by the late and great...
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Using original art for Patrician Press cover images was always part of our original philosophy. And we think it has made an impact: 1. CHAOS – POETRY ANTHOLOGY edited by Anna Johnson Cover image by Steve Downey In 2014, Steve went on a road trip around various American National Parks. The resulting works included the square artwork...
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2. NEVER KNOWINGLY UNDERSTOOD by Dr Anthony Roberts Cover image by Tim Roberts ‘Untitled (after Tunnard)’ 2015 Anthony was delighted by Tim Roberts’ painting after expressing his interest in mid-century design. As well as acknowledging his debt to the Romantic Modernists, Tim Roberts draws on the work of a later generation of painters – John...
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3. THE UNSEEN by Valerio Varesi Cover image by Charlie Johnson The request for a cover illustration was from a well- known Italian writer of detective fiction, whose stories are usually set in and around the River Po, and the people who live and work there. This is an area Charlie is very familiar with. He did some research looking at Po illustrations...
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