My Europe – A Patrician Press Anthology has gone to press! The publication date is 23 March 2018. We are delighted to announce that there will be three events taking place to launch the book. The first will be at the Wivenhoe Bookshop – as part of the Essex Book Fair – at 6.30pm on Friday 2nd March. Here is the...
Read MoreFestive Greetings
In November we launched two new titles: War Changes Everything and Midnight Legacy by Melanie Hughes with events at the India Club and Holborn Library. Our next launches will be in March for the Our Europe anthology. You can see all the news about the launches in our Christmas Newsletter which you can sign up for here on the website. And best wishes...
Read MoreAlbion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
As usual, it’s been a busy few months and our last event for the summer was on Saturday 24 June at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Walton Street, Oxford. Coincidentally, a street that I know well as my sister-in-law and brother-in-law used to live there. In fact the day turned into a family reunion for my husband, Charlie Johnson, as we met up with...
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It’s Refugee Week and on Saturday 24 June we will be at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Oxford: There will be readings from our Refugees and Peacekeepers Anthology. Contributions from ticket entry and book sales will be made to Help Refugees and the Refugee Council. Here is the list of readers: Wersha Bharadwa is an award-nominated journalist...
Read MorePiacenza in May
We have been spending quite a lot of time in Piacenza, a city in Emilia-Romagna. The local football team is called ‘Piace’ which means pleasing, as in ‘mi piace’ – ‘I like’. In Roman times it was called Placentia. Piacenza, a garrison town, not that dissimilar to Colchester, cannot be counted as a tourist...
Read MoreSaturday 27 May, Piacenza Italy
Rosso Tiziano Art Gallery, Piacenza Launch of Il Tempo del Disgelo by Ilaria Locati. Readings by Ilaria Locati, Sara Elena Rossetti and Arturo Croci. Music by guitarist, Matteo Ugazio. Ilaria Locati Artist. She graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan with a degree in sculpture. She has participated in many one-person and group shows in Italy and...
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