An ideal Christmas gift!

All my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Book Stop ”  here.

And each order made through the Thoughtful Spot will come with a special Christmas Card and bookmark. 

This year’s exclusive watercolour illustration was designed by our good friend James Innerdale to mark the publication of my If The Invader Comes.

Books can be simply signed by me or using their website you can specify a message like “To Nadiya, Happy Christmas” for me to add by hand.

Choose from any of my books. RRP plus p&p. Last orders 10 December. Dispatch 11 December 2026.

To order

• Email amy @ thebook-stop.com
• Go to www.thebook-stop.com/tom-palmer
• Message them via the message box on their website
• Send them a message via social media (Facebook or www.instagram.com/thebookstop.hx )

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

For the last fifteen years I have asked teachers, TAs and librarians if they would be kind enough to nominate a child they think would benefit from the gift of a book for Christmas.

My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2026. 

The Christmas Books
Each book will be personally dedicated, signed, gift-wrapped and will come with a Christmas card from me.  The Christmas card will have this year’s exclusive illustration taking inspiration from  my latest book If the Invader Comes by the wonderful Yorkshire artist James Innerdale.

I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is successful.

The Children
Our idea is to work with schools and libraries to help us gift books to fifty children.  Short applications are invited from teachers, TAs and librarians, nominating children as follows:

• who have had a difficult year at school or home in the hope that a book would be a boost for them
• who do not have any books at home
• who one special book might help engage them with a lifetime of reading for pleasure.

Applying teachers, TAs and librarians are also asked to select which of my books for children they feel is most appropriate.

Their Privacy
All nominations will be kept in confidence and it is up to you exactly how privately you wish to give the books over.

You will be under no obligation to disclose to the child why they are receiving the book or to present it to them publicly.

The nomination process for applying adults
If you’d like to nominate a child, please email the following information as follows to admin@tompalmer.co.uk by Sunday 22nd November 2026: 

1. the child’s name (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
2. a short paragraph explaining why you are nominating that child (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
3. your choice of book for them from one of my books listed at https://tompalmer.co.uk/about-tom/books-for-children/.
4. your name and school address (where I will send the book)

We will respond ASAP to all applications as soon as we can on receipt.  My family and I will choose the recipients and notify all applying teachers, TAs and librarians of the outcome by the end of November and we aim to have the books dispatched to schools in the first week of December 2026.

I am sorry, we cannot promise to send a book to every child nominated. We have set an upper limit of 50.  But I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is successful.

(For more information about special offer schools book packs, FREE signed bookplates and signed books to purchase as gifts see here. )

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

This year’s Remembrance Sunday will be marked on 8th November, with Armistice Day on Wednesday 11^th November 2025.

To help schools mark the occasion and link it to developing literacy in the classroom, I offer these FREE resources for schools to use based around my books …

• My annual Remembrance Day film.

Link to be posted here shortly

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning , we will remember them.” Laurence Binyon

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My books about various sections of the Armed Forces:

• Royal Navy Arctic Star War Dog
• Army Over the Line, Armistice Runner and The Last Try
• RAF Flyboy, Spitfire, Typhoon and Rugby Academy
• the Reserves and Paratroopers D-Day Dog
• Prisoners of War War Dog
• Auxillary Forces If the Invader Comes

Since 2019 the red poppy has paid tribute to civilian victims of war and “acts of terrorism”, alongside the armed forces.

Angel of Grasmere is set at the start of the Second World War in Britain featuring the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and the fear of Nazi invasion for a group of three village and evacuee children in the Lake District.

Resist is my historical story for children about the impact on a home front civilian occupation in WW2, based on the real Dutch Resistance experiences of Audrey Hepburn.

My books about both World Wars and children of today’s serving members of the Armed Forces :  

• First World War – Read  Over the Line,  Flyboy and Armistice Runner
• Second World War – Read Resist, Spitfire, D-Day Dog, Arctic Star, After the War ,  Angel of Grasmere and War Dog
• 21^st century Armed Forces – Typhoon, D-Day Dog

More WW1 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/first-world-war-literacy-resources/

• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Be a Trench Runner memory challenge game for the school hall.
• Black out poetry sheets with instructions and certificates.
• 10 discussion points about war for Y5 to Y9.
• Book cover prediction sheets with questions encouraging the children to think about what a book might be about.

More WW2 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/second-world-war-literacy-resources/

• Downloadable posters.
• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Videos about the settings of my books, filmed at the Somme and on the D-Day beaches.

• D-Day Dog Blackout Poem Challenge Introduction and how to guide to create your own Blackout Poems, including suggested texts, examples and a certificate. Download here

Here’s a recap of materials from previous years …

Signed certificate to present to pupils for their reading for pleasure or any achievements relating to Remembrance Day.

Download here

My 2024 Remembrance Day film was recorded at the site of an aircrash of one of the hundreds of Allied planes that crashed in the countryside during the defence of Britain during the Second World War, some miles away from villages and roads, many hundreds of feet high up mountains and fells. Thousands of airmen were killed and severely injured. Many sites have memorials to those lost. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning , we will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
Remembrance virtual event

• With a two-minute silence to mark the Armistice
• Art, music, poetry, veteran interviews creating a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience
• Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3
• Live Zoom webinar with National Literacy Trust and the Royal British Legion

Catch up now here …

My 2023 assembly message was about the real First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors that have inspired the characters in my books.  It is for use in the hall or for schools to stream throughout classrooms.

• “The Barnbow Lasses” – a  FREE 3 part readaloud story with resources.  Download here. 

And you can read this great blog from Amy McKinlay, P1-3 teacher at Kettins Primary School …  How to make Remembrance Day memorable in the classroom – Scottish Book Trust

My 2022 Remembrance message was about the First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors – from across the Commonwealth – that have inspired the characters in my books, particularly from India and Canada :
My 2021 Remembrance message was filmed from the Arctic Convoy War Memorial at Liverpool Parish Church

My 2020 Remembrance message was filmed from my local war memorial about the real soldiers, sailors and airman who inspired my books:

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang   
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers       
USA :  Indigo books

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Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

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Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

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What’s coming up … Autumn 2026

• Autumn Primary Book Buzz
• Meet me Autumn 2026-Falmouth, London and Lancashire
• November Remembrance –a new film to share to come
• December Christmas Signed Books order now for December delivery
• Christmas Book Giving 2026
• New Writing and hints about 2027 …
• 2027 Plans 
  • January 2027 Holocaust Memorial Day
  • February 2027 Rugby 6 Nations
  • March 2027 World Book Day
  • Schools Bumper Book Pack & Class sets offer
  • 2027 Awards news

Autumn Primary Book Buzz

I am thrilled that The Fear, Book 1 in my Underdogs multi sports series, published by Barrington Stoke, has been selected as one of the books for the inaugural Primary schools BookBuzz.

For more information, please do get in touch
admin @tompalmer . co . uk

More about Underdogs

Meet me Autumn – 2026 

10.30 am Saturday 24 October 2026
Falmouth Book Festival £1.50 

More here thepoly.org/whats-on/event/4873/fbf

11am Monday 26 October 2026
Imperial War Museum London

Big Story Festival Talk to accompany & celebrate my book Armistice Runner being selected for their “Childhood in War” exhibition.

More here www.iwm.org.uk/events/big-story-festival-tom-palmer 

4-5 pm Tuesday 17 November 2026
After school FREE meet the author activity
at Haslingden Library, Deardengate,
Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5QL
Everyone welcome! More here

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November 26 – Remembrance

In early November I’ll be releasing a short film for Remembrance Day. This year I’ll be focusing not only on how we can remember those lost and damaged by war, but also how we can harness those feelings to do react to wars that are happening now and in the future. From writing letters to signing petitions and more.

If you’d like to be notified when the film is ready, please email admin @ tompalmer . co . uk .      FREE

More here tompalmer.co.uk/remembrance-day/

December 26 – Christmas Signed Books

Order from now onwards signed copies of my books WITH a FREE 2026 exclusive wartime Cornwall themed Christmas card – an exclusive illustration by James Innerdale to mark this year’s publication of If The Invader Comes, personally signed by Tom with a dedication of your choice with award-winning children’s bookshop The Book Stop.

Choose from any of my books.  RRP plus p&p.  Last orders by 10 December.  Dispatch 11 December 2026.

Order from now onwards

• Email amy @ thebook-stop.com
• Go to www.thebook-stop.com/tom-palmer
• Message them via the message box on their website
• Send them a message via social media (Facebook or www.instagram.com/thebookstop.hx )

Christmas Book Giving

For nearly twenty years, I have asked teachers, TAs and librarians if they would be kind enough to nominate a child they think would benefit from the gift of a book for Christmas. My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2026.

Closing Date Sun 22 Nov 2026

Find out how to and to nominate a pupil tompalmer.co.uk/christmas-book-giving/

2026-27 New Writing

• 10 Sept 26 Front Foot publication day. Front Foot is Book 2, a new cricketing story for my Underdogs multi sports series. Published by Barrington Stoke. More about Underdogs series here 

2027 Watch out for …

• Go Warily After Dark– the second book in my Cornish wartime Allies series
• War Cat a new picture book follow up to War Dog set in Scotland
• The Race – a third book in my Underdogs series

2026-7 Author Visits

I am available for in-person and virtual author visits with a focus on reading and writing about history and/or sport.

Although I am booked up until the end of 2026, I am now taking virtual bookings for January and February 2027. If you’d like your class – or multiple classes – to spend up to an hour chatting to me about reading, writing, history or sport, please contact me via admin @ tompalmer . co . uk or visit Virtual Author Visits | Tom Palmer for more information.

Dates available include weeks beginning 11^th January, 18^th January, 1^st February and 8^th February 2027.

More about my author visits here www.tompalmer.co.uk/schools-librarians/author-visits/

For latest availability & fees, please email admin @ tompalmer.co.uk, subject “2027 Author Visits”

January 2027 Holocaust Memorial Day

In late January, we mark Holocaust Memorial Day. I am offering in person and virtual visits around this time, focussing on my book, After the War, the story of the Windermere Children.

More about After the War – and my film made at Auschwitz,  please visit www.tompalmer.co.uk/after-the-war.

February 2027 – Rugby six nations tournament

Partner the tournament with reading my exciting new cricketing story Front Foot.

Or book me for a virtual visit!

More about Front Foot here

March 2027-World Book Day

Like many authors – I’m already booked for World Book Day. However… if you’d like a bespoke pre-recorded filmed visit to show on the day throughout your school, please let me know. Your school can send questions in advance for me to answer as well as suggestions from teachers as to what you would like me to cover. The films will be made during the last week of February with a deadline of 22^nd February and delivery on 28^th February. Please contact me via admin @ tompalmer . co . uk  to make a booking.

Awards News

Exciting news! I have been nominated for the 2027 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

My latest children’s book If the Invader Comes is currently …

• shortlisted for the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership Trust Book Award 2027

and it has been chosen as Waterstones Best Book to look out for in May and a Toppsta Book of the Week!

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CHILDREN’S HISTORICAL FICTION
SET IN CORNWALL & SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

Tom Palmer is a children’s author based in the south west of England.

Three of his books are set in the south west and feature the region’s experience of and contribution to WWI and WWII.

You can find out about Tom’s three south west books here:

If the Invader Comes (WW2 novel set in Cornwall, 1940-41)

If The Invader Comes | Tom Palmer

Over the Line (Jack Cock first Cornishman to play football for England, who fought at the Somme)

Over the Line | Tom Palmer

Arctic Star (WW2 Navy story set in Plymouth and the Arctic Ocean)

Arctic Star | Tom Palmer

Each book has a range of free classroom resources available from their webpage.

Tom regularly visits schools to talk about how he researches, plans, writes and edits his books.

More about that here: Author Visits | Tom Palmer.

Tom has done a short film explaining each book – in its Cornish or Devon setting – that schools are very welcome to use.

FILM If the Invader Comes:

(Tom may quiz this during his school visits so this contains spoilers if he is visiting you!)

FILM Over The Line:

FILM Arctic Star:

To find out more or contact Tom please visit www.tompalmer.co.uk/contact

Two letters I have written to my parents that I wish I could send, which I hope will inspire parents today. 

Dear Mum 

Dear Dad

Allies is my new Cornish Trilogy for children, set in the Second World War.  (As Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading Ambassador 2026,  I’ll be launching my book across all corners of Cornwall, more here.  Other UK chances to meet me here).

Allies Book 1 – If The Invader Comes.

“A gripping Cornish wartime story” – Cornwall Libraries

Published by Barrington Stoke,
7 May 2026

Pre-order signed and dedicated books from Shrew Books,  Fowey here

June 1940, with the spectre of a Nazi invasion looming over Britain, three children are forced into an unlikely allyship in this gripping wartime tale.

In these dark days, the parents of Bobble, Cadan and Cilla are involved in vital but top-secret war work, and they need their children’s help to keep their activities hidden.

The unlikely trio initially struggle to trust one another, but when Cadan spots a German E-boat during a Fal river patrol and Cilla discovers a crashed Stuka, they realise the menace is closer than they thought.

After the devastating defeat of the British forces at Dunkirk, the terrifying prospect of a Nazi invasion of Britain seems ever more likely. With danger lurking at every turn, can they band together to protect their home and each other?

Read Chapter 1 here

Pre-order on Amazon now here 

Souvenir Readers Pack coming soon!

“Tom’s writing is always wonderful so I wasn’t at all surprised to enjoy it as much as I did. There’s something very comforting and hopeful about a Tom Palmer book. His love of the landscape shines through as he conjures an immersive sense of time and place, and he writes his characters with such compassion that it’s impossible not to love them and to want to spend time with them. The only downside is that I want more!” Dan Smith

Book Launch

I’ll be launching  If the Invader Comes at Trebah Gardens.

Meet me with Cornwall Libraries with an 8 Day whistle stop tour of FREE events late May-June 2026.

More here 

Researching & Writing If the Invader Comes

• Inspired by Trebah Gardens and Carlew Estate
• Using archives from Kresen Kernow
• Researched at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall & the Museum of Cornish Life
• Developed with Cornish Schools
• Exploring on the Carrick Roads
• Featuring the dramatic bombing of Falmouth and Plymouth burning
• Settings include north coast airfields, Truro and Penryn viaduct

If the Invader Comes Resources  to come

Read chapter 1 here 

Colouring

Cover Prediction worksheet

Settings map worksheet

My If the Invader Comes Scrapbook – flipbook

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Footage of soldiers leaving for D-Day from Trebah, Cornwall here 

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Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang
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New Zealand: Wheelers
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Thank you.

Oll an gwella / All the best

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We are delighted that Brittany McDaniel has kindly shared her playscript, photos and film of their production of Tom Palmer’s “After the War” for other schools to use and adapt as needed, see below.

Find out more about how this exciting partnership came about and connect scroll further below:

Playscript here

Photos of the production

Film

Background

Brittany McDaniel, a teacher based out of North Platte, Nebraska, USA (the most landlocked state in the US) read After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside in the summer of 2025 as she was looking for a script or story to adapt for her high school students  (14-18 year olds) to perform as their competition one act.  In Nebraska, area high school schools compete against other schools with 30 minute long productions and receive judging feedback over the course of their season. Mrs. McDaniel found Tom Palmer’s book while falling down a rabbit hole of research after watching the BBC drama, The Windermere Children and the rest is history. She could see the play happening in her head as she read it and she knew she needed to try and make it happen.

Thanks to the wonder of the internet, Mrs. McDaniel was able to contact Mr. Palmer and ask for permission to adapt his book into a play that would fit within the competition rules and after some back and forth for clarification, everything was set.  Throughout the writing and revising process, there were a few moments and flashbacks that had to be cut due to time and the nature of presenting something live on stage.  Also, one scene was added toward the very end. “The book is so beautifully written but when I was translating it for the stage, it felt like the audience needed one more flashback before the final scene. That led to adding the scene where Yossi is reunited with his family one last time in order for him to say goodbye to them. Also, the line ‘Get up, Yossi. Wash your face.’ just stuck with me and I wanted to find a way for Yossi and his father to have another moment with it.” states McDaniel.

Throughout the whole process, McDaniel and her students read and watched a variety of nonfiction, memoirs, and articles in order to learn more about the children and adults this book was written about. We would encourage anyone reading this book to also do the same.  When asked about their experiences with the show, the cast members of the show responded with these statements:

Henry Cline (Yossi) “Some stories need telling and this is one of them. Rehearsing and performing this show has given the cast the chance to both put on a deep and meaningful story, but also to stay in touch with history and keep an important message alive.”

Isabella Frazier (Rebecca Frenkle, Yossi’s mother) – “Everyone knows the horrors of the holocaust, but no one takes a moment to learn about what happened once the camps were liberated. The atrocities that occurred in the camp continued to haunt the survivors until their dying breaths.”

Mrs. McDaniel says feel free to schools to use the script adaptation to help with your lessons and curriculum as needed. Almost all of the dialogue comes directly from the text and any changes were made after very careful consideration.  If you would like to contact Brittany McDaniel to talk about her process or how to incorporate theatre into your own classroom, please reach out to her via email at bmcdaniel at nppsd dot org
More playscripts here

More about After the War here 

Thank you

Exciting News! I am the Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading Ambassador for 2026. I’ll be visiting all corners of Cornwall and hope to celebrate the National Year of Reading with your families.

My family and I are delighted to have become Cornish residents and I’ll be visiting as many schools and libraries, bookshops and festival across Cornwall as I can throughout 2026.

Meet me in person – coming up next …

10.30 am Saturday 24 October 2026
Falmouth Book Festival £1.50 

More here thepoly.org/whats-on/event/4873/

Introducing Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading 2026 

My 2026 Cornish Diary Highlights

January – Kicked off the national year of reading with my FREE 5 part story to readaloud based on the real wartime journal of a girl called Inga from her life first in Vienna, Austria 1937-39 and then in Falmouth, Cornwall 1939-1944.  More here

Saturday 24 January 2026
Perranporth Library opening

I loved reading from my new book and meeting readers at the grand opening of their amazing new library!

I hope to be visiting all the libraries of Cornwall this summer.

February 

Hosted the schools book quiz for Cornwall Libraries at Kresen Kernow.  Well done to the winning school!

March

Thrilled to get my hands on an early copy of IF THE INVADER COMES, we took it to Trebah Garden(one of its inspirational Cornish settings) to celebrate. What a place!Took my first copy of If the Invader Comes to Trebah Gardens.

I was also due to visit Five Islands Academy and St Mary’s Library but was unable to fly due to the weather, but hope to go soon!

April

Visited the lovely Shrew Books, Fowey to buy some books and set up pre-order signed booksales for If the Invader Comes.

More here.

May 

I launched If the Invader Comes at Trebah Gardens on 7 May 2026.

Its Book 1 in my new Cornish Trilogy Allies for children, set in the Second World War.

“A gripping Cornish wartime story” – Cornwall Libraries

Order signed books from Shew Books, Fowey here.

Follow my Cornish journey of researching & writing Allies here. 

June 1940, with the spectre of a Nazi invasion looming over Britain, three Cornish children – Bobble, Cadan and Cilla – are involved in vital but top-secret war work. The unlikely trio initially struggle to trust one another, but when Cadan spots a German E-boat during a Fal River patrol and Cilla discovers a crashed Stuka on a Cornish RAF airfield, they realise the menace is closer than they thought.

More here. 

I was also invited on to Radio Cornwall to introduce my new book and met loads of Cornish families when I visited lots of Cornish schools and bookshops and libraries!

Mon 25 May 2026
Waterstones Truro

May-June 2026 Cornwall Libraries Tour

• A Q&A about my new book
• A look inside my notebooks and research process
• A discussion about how i became an author
• The chance to purchase my books
• The first 5 families to attend received a free signed copy, donated by my publisher Barrington Stoke

Sat 23 May 2026 Hayle  Camborne Redruth
Tues 26 May 2026 Bodmin Wadebridge Camelford
Wed 27 May 2026 St Columb  Newquay  Perranporth St Agnes
Thurs 28 May 2026 St Ives  Penzance  St Just
Fri 29 May 2026 Helston  Falmouth  Penryn  Truro
Sat 30 May 2026 Lostwithiel  Fowey  St Austell
Mon 1 June 2026 Liskeard  Saltash  Torpoint
Tues 2 June 2026 Callington  Launceston  Par

Sat 6 June 2027 Royal Cornwall Show

13 June St Austell Festival

August

Looe Libraries organised a great Family Reading Session

I also went to Bodmin Leisure Centre for a football session

September

Back to school visits

October

Exploding Words Festival with Cornwall & Devon schools

Falmouth Festival

Visiting Richard Lander School

November

Visiting lots of Cornish schools to mark Remembrance

Visiting the schools with the highest % of its pupils finishing the Cornwall Reading Challenge with Cornwall Libraries

December

January 2027

Visiting lots of Cornish schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Tom says” It is my absolute honour to be the National Year of Reading ambassador for Cornwall Libraries. Cornwall is my favourite place on earth and where my family and I will be living permanently from January onwards. I also love libraries. Libraries changed my life and gave me access to the books that gave me access to the world. So this is a perfect role for me. I will do everything I can to champion Cornwall’s libraries and all the good work they do.”

Councillor Sarah Preece, Cabinet Member for Libraries and Culture at Cornwall Council, added: “This partnership is a fantastic boost for Cornwall’s National Year of Reading. With Tom’s involvement, we’ll reach young people and encourage them to connect with stories that reflect their own interests and passions. It’s wonderful to see Cornwall’s Libraries highlighting that reading can be sparked by what people love the most.”

My other stories set in Cornwall

I’ve already set a children’s book in Cornwall from my Defenders series, published by Barrington Stoke.

In Pitch Invasion, Seth and Nadiya specialise in solving ghostly hauntings at football venues, which take them to settings including an Iron Age Celtic hill fort, Cornwall. (Based on

More here 

More of my books set in the South West …

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