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‘Balances a madcap sense of intrigue with added satirical laughs galore. There are plenty of narrative plates to keep spinning here but @anthonygardnera.bsky.social pulls it off with aplomb’ A lovely first review for All God’s Creatures, from @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

Next week we publish Unriddling the World, an anthology of 50 traditional stories from around the world put together by the celebrated performer Hugh Lupton, the founder of the Company of Storytellers and a professional storyteller since 1981. Link to order in next post ⤵️

All God’s Creatures by Anthony Gardner | The Crack Magazine Anthony Gardner won much acclaim for his previous novel ‘Fox’ – a farcical thriller concerning a virulent disease carried by foxes – and ‘All God’s Creatures’ balances a similar madcap sense of intrig...

Here’s @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social’s full review of @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s new novel All God’s Creatures www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...

‘Balances a madcap sense of intrigue with added satirical laughs galore. There are plenty of narrative plates to keep spinning here but @anthonygardnera.bsky.social pulls it off with aplomb’ A lovely first review for All God’s Creatures, from @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social

Two Eye Books authors, George Harrison and Jim Cockin, are finalists in the East Anglian Book Awards: one with a heartfelt debut novel about bonding on the football terrace, the other with a chiller ghost story for kids @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA
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Congratulations also to Jim Cockin, whose story Ghost Tide, a stirring spine-chiller set on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, is shortlisted in the children’s book category of the East Anglian Book Awards @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA

Congratulations to George Harrison, whose novel Season – a heartfelt portrait of male bonding in the football stands – is shortlisted in the debut novel category of the East Anglian Book Awards @writerscentre.bsky.social #EABA

Another beautiful review. This one leaving me a little lost for words 😢

To get 25% off Happy Land, use the code OCTOBER25 on the following link. NB the book isn’t published till January so it’ll be a nice post-Christmas surprise when it arrives shorturl.at/u0j3k

In January we publish Happy Land, in which longtime Helsinki resident Tim Bird looks at why Finland keeps getting named as the happiest country in the world. It’s a very entertaining read and you can pre-order now from Waterstones to get 25% off (link ⤵️)

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We were chuffed that Hilary Taylor took the runner-up award at last week’s New Angle Prize, and that four of the six shortlisted books – by @robertashton.bsky.social, @katharineq.bsky.social & Amanda Addison – are now published by us or our sister company @wiltonsquare.bsky.social. Full story ⤵️

A very funny, very charming book with lots of madcap adventures which becomes a book about modern Britain in its diversity, and that’s what I love about it’ Fantastic to hear @stuartmaconie.bsky.social so keen on Rowan McCabe’s The Door-to-Door Poet on Loose Ends www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Congratulations to Hilary Taylor, runner-up in the New Angle Prize with her Norfolk-set literary thriller Sea Defences (and of course to the winner Ian Collins for his deservedly acclaimed biography of Ronald Blythe)

It was great to hear Gaby Roslin so enthusiastic about Rowan McCabe and his book The Door-to-Door Poet on BBC Local Radio’s The Make a Difference Show last week. It’s a very nice interview. Listen from 2:18 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Secret North East - The world's first door to door poet - BBC Sounds Meet door to door poet Rowan McCabe. He told Anna Foster about his work.

It’s not often we say here’s an entire radio programme dedicated to a book we’ve just published, but the latest episode of Secret North East on BBC Radio Newcastle is just that: Anna Foster talks to Rowan McCabe about his memoir The Door-to-Door Poet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Books in brief: The House of Wolf, Everything We Do Is Mu... New books by Tony Robinson, Elizabeth Alker and George Harrison reviewed

Here’s the full review of Season observer.co.uk/culture/book...

‘A heartfelt, platonic love story develops between the Young Man and the Old Man as they navigate their complicated lives and find a connection. This is an intelligent exploration of masculinity in the 21st century’ George Harrison’s debut novel Season reviewed in the Observer (link ⤵️)

Out now in all formats, and endorsed by @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social

INTERVIEW: Rowan McCabe Fran Harvey chats to the poet and performer about his book which chronicles his year of taking spoken word to the doorsteps of the UK

The Door-to-Door Poet, out today, is ‘a funny, self-aware chronicle of the year Rowan McCabe spent in pursuit of a madly brilliant project’, says NARC. magazine. Read more about that project in their interview with Rowan here
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Happy publication day to Rowan McCabe, whose book The Door-to-Door Poet – a joyful and thoughtful portrayal of a very unusual mission and the many and varied voices that make up a nation – is out today. (1/3)

The Door-to-Door Poet by Rowan McCabe | Eye Books The story of a maverick literary quest to knock on strangers’ doors in some of the most deprived parts of England and and offer to write poems for them, for free, about any subject they like

Obviously you can also get it from your nearest bookseller or you can buy it directly from us (3/3)
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It’s great to see that it’s an instant Amazon bestseller – #2 in British Poetry (2/3) amazon.co.uk/gp/bestselle...

Happy publication day to Rowan McCabe, whose book The Door-to-Door Poet – a joyful and thoughtful portrayal of a very unusual mission and the many and varied voices that make up a nation – is out today. (1/3)

I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe I knocked on doors, spoke to people about hopes and concerns, and wrote poetry to share with them. It could and should be an art form for everyone, says poet Rowan McCabe

And here’s the link to Rowan’s Guardian piece (3/3)
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He tells his full story in The Door-to-Door Poet, which we publish tomorrow eye-books.com/books/the-do... (2/3)

When RowanMcCabe told a police officer neighbour he was planning to knock on doors at Byker Wall and offer to write poems for free, she advised him to take pepper spray and not carry valuables. The reality was very different, as he explains in today’s Guardian (1/3)

Image of a poster about Katharine Quarmby speaking on Sunday 5 October at 12.30 about her debut, prizelisted novel, The Low Road

I'll be at #IpswichBookFestival talking about my prize-listed novel, #TheLowRoad @eyebooks.bsky.social, based on a true story from my East Anglian hometown. It tells the story of a Norfolk girl transported to Australia as a convict and is a tale of love, grief, betrayal - and solidarity. #Convicts

‘As the line between disaster and salvation becomes increasingly complex and blurred, the pages of the novel turn into an adventurous, adrenaline-filled diary. Original and overwhelming’ Another rave review of the Italian edition of Polly Clark’s new novel Ocean, this one in Corriere della Sera

‘With a nonconformist heroine at the helm, OCEAN [is] a gripping, epic and tragic journey, a wild and incredible adventure in the solitude of the sea, in search of what it means to heal.’ A great review of the Italian edition of Polly Clark’s novel in La Repubblica