What’s on offer this term, Spring 2024

• January 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day
• March 2024 World Book Day
• Spring Term Author visits
• May 2024 New historical fiction preview
• NEW Rocky Race series
• NEW Football Ultimate Heroes

Saturday 27 Jan 2024 – Holocaust Memorial Day

Our 2024 resources are available with partners including UCL Centre for Holocaust Education and the National Literacy Trust. This year we are offering  …

• a webinar with the Historical Association
• a Free 5 part story
• an online Q&A event with Mala Tribich

• More here www.tompalmer.co.uk/holocaust-memorial-day/

7 March 2024 World Book Day

Can you judge a book by its cover?  Watch below or in YouTube…

Dress up ideas for all my books here https://tompalmer.co.uk/world-book-day/

And lots more free resources here

• introductory powerpoint
• posters
• colouring
• classroom reads
• films
• reading certificates

May 2024 – new Historical Fiction

I will have a new children’s historical fiction out in May set in Cumbria in the Second World War.

• Sign up for a reminder to get an advance chapter and for more here tompalmer.co.uk/new-writing/

• More about researching and writing Angel of Grasmere here 

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

Meet me 2024

Thursday 30 May 2024 11-3pm Imperial War Museum North

Friday 31 May 2024 11-3pm Imperial War Museum London

More here

Audiobooks update

After the War, Resist and Soccer Diaries are already available.

D-Day Dog, Armistice Runner, Over the Line, Arctic Star and Angel of Grasmere are being recorded now and will be available from May 2024

More here 

Latest Football Fiction – NEW Rocky Race series

Rocky Race, the sister of Roy of the Rovers – has a new spin off series kicking off .

In Rocky Takes L.A. we join the combative British fourteen-year-old as she signs up for a summer soccer school in California.

• More about Rocky here https://tompalmer.co.uk/soccer-diaries/
• Read Chapter 1 https://tompalmer.co.uk/soccer-diaries-read-chapter-1/

Author Visits

I am available for in-person and virtual author visits with a focus on creative writing, sports, reading and writing about history.

• 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 “2024 Author Visits”

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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. 

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

Overseas :
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 33 book pack offer here

33 books
£194 saving £63 – over 25% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer here.

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

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To accompany Resist, here is an extra FREE Christmas story “Silent Night”

Audrey Hepburn’s childhood story of resistance in the Second World War against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands inspired my book Resist.

Silent Night is an extra special short story I have written about Audrey’s secret Christmas mission, free to read below, but here’s a bit of background …

RESIST  :  One Girl’s Fight Back Against the Nazis 

Resist shines a light on the incredible work of the WWll Dutch resistance, in a story inspired by the childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn.

As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of arrest and enslavement.

BUY THE BOOK

Find it at your local library, local independent bookshop, 
Waterstones and Amazon. 

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.  

Special Resist souvenir readers’ packs are available here. 

Now read the extra special short story below about Audrey’s secret Christmas mission

Find out more about Resist here

More of my Christmas in Fiction

Arctic Star

Angel of Grasmere

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. 

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

Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop

Schools bumper book pack
offer

33 books for £200

Saving £73

Over 25% discount

Free Delivery

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

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Read my 15th out of (in no particular order)100 Football’s Greatest Moments.  Lily Parr and Dick, Kerr Ladies football match on Boxing Day 1920 with the flip book below :

(You might also like to read my free chapter from Arctic Star on Christmas  Day 1943 here)

Discover the most memorable moments in football history in this new edition to the Ultimate Football Heroes series!  Featuring Pele’s World Cup, Maradona’s Hand of God, John Barnes’ Maracana magic, and the Lionesses’ European Championship triumph, this is an endlessly fascinating treasury of stories for fans of all ages.

Will you agree or disagree with what I think are the 100 most important moments in the history of the game?

Find out more here

Order a signed or dedicated copy personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Order from Amazon here

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. 

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

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

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

Thank you.

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Use these resources this Christmas time based on Chapter 19 of Arctic Star.   

Find out how the young Royal Navy sailors celebrate Christmas Day 1943 aboard HMS Belfast in the Arctic Circle with dinner, carols and listening to the King’s Speech.

Christmas Resources:

Read chapter 19, Christmas Day on the Arctic Ocean, 1943 as a pdf here to share with the young people you work with or use the flip book below :

Christmas Blackout Poem Challenge here

Includes a how to guide, suggested extracts featuring the King’s speech on Christmas Day,  examples and a signed certificate.

Film of Tom reading Chapter 19 on board HMS Belfast this Christmas

Christmas History Special: WWII Arctic Star 80th Anniversary

Join me in to commemorate & discover the 80th Anniversary of the WWII naval Battle of North Cape this December with Mr Dilly.

Watch here

More about Arctic Star

Book Trailer

For more Arctic Star resources and to find about how Tom researched and wrote it click here 

More of my Christmas in Fiction

Resist

Angel of Grasmere

Buy the Book

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!

Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop

Schools bumper book pack
offer

33 books for £200

Saving £73

Over 25% discount

Free Delivery

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

Thank you.

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Find out more about my my first Ultimate Football Heroes book, Football’s Greatest Moments here

Find out more about Soccer Diaries staring Rocky Race, a British footballer looking to make it big in a US soccer school here.

Friday 1 December 2023 11am-Midday
Christmas History Special: WWII Arctic Star 80th Anniversary

Join me in a virtual event to commemorate & discover the 80th Anniversary of the WWII naval Battle of North Cape this December with Mr Dilly.

Launched 11am-Midday Friday 1 December and then available throughout December 2023.

More about Arctic Star

Book now FREE.

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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. 

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

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

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

Thank you.

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What’s on offer this term, Autumn 2023

• NEW Rocky Race series
• NEW Football Ultimate Heroes
• Rugby Union World Cup
• October starts Christmas Book Giving
• November Remembrance Day 2023
• December Christmas History Special Virtual: WWII Arctic Star 80th Anniversary
• Christmas Arctic Star resources
• January 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day
• Spring Term Author visits
• May 2024 New historical fiction preview

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Our replies are never automated so you will get a personal reply. Please be patient with us!

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. 

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

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

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

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WIN THREE BOOKS FEATURING SPORTING GIRLS AS THE MAIN CHARACTER FOR YOUR SCHOOL

After the buzz created by the Lionesses in this summer’s World Cup finals, I expect school libraries will be looking to restock with even more books about girls playing sport.

I’m offering schools the chance to win one of six sets of three of my books and a pack of 10 sample chapters of my forthcoming book about a British girl who goes to play football in California.

TO ENTER :

Please either RETWEET on Twitter and/or SHARE on Facebook and then enter your details below.

Three sets  – for you to give to a school of your choice – will be up for grabs on each platform. Deadline is midnight on Sunday 20th August 2023. Winners will be drawn at random.

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I have written many sports stories featuring girls as the main character:

Secret FC (2010), 6+
Typhoon (2016), 7+
My First Football Game (2013), 4+
Armistice Runner (2018), 9+
Rocky (2020), 9+
Gus the Fantastic Football Cat (2018), 5+
Game Changer (2022), 10+
Soccer Diaries I (2023), 10+

Find out more about them below.

Out September 2023 Rocky Takes LA.  Pre-order signed and dedicated copies from my local independent bookshop, The Thoughtful Spot here:  www.thethoughtfulspotbooks.com/product-page/the-soccer-diaries-book-1-rocky-takes-la

“Rocky is a brilliant role model for girls and boys alike, showing that there is always a way through life’s challenges if you keep going and never give up.” Kate Heap

2023 World Cup Activities

Rocky Doodle Doo Colour in and add your own football linked doodles to download and print off here 

Play Rocky’s 2023 World Cup Reading Game in the classroom or library  and discover lots of way to enjoy football and enjoy reading here.

Learn to draw Rocky with Lisa Henke here.

More about my books featuring girls playing football:

4 + First Football Game

5 + GUS THE FAMOUS FOOTBALL CAT

A funny and heartwarming story about a girl and her pet cat, who becomes a World Cup celebrity! 

There’s a football challenge at Yusra’s school and everyone wants to win. Which class can find the best way to predict England’s World Cup results? Yusra has an idea – her pet cat Gus could help! As Gus keeps guessing the scores right, the word spreads and soon everyone wants a piece of the famous football cat.  But is the life of a celebrity as purrfect as it seems?

Published by Egmont.  More about Gus here 

7 + SECRET FC

Lily,  Maddie and Zach can’t believe it when the new headmaster bans football in the playground.  Living in the inner-city, there is nowhere else to play.  Then Zack has a brilliant plan and soon a very special secret football club is formed . . .

Published by Barrington Stoke

More about Secret FC here

9 + Rocky of the Rovers

Rocky is the sixth and historic book in the brand new series of illustrated middle grade fiction titles starring Roy of the Rovers, the classic British children’s football hero rebooted for the 21st century. This time, it’s all about Rocky, Roy’s football-mad younger sister!

A struggling student and brilliant footballer, Rocky Race is many things, but to most people she’s just Roy Race’s little sister. It’s not much fun – especially as Melchester Rovers head to the League Cup Final.

Rocky’s sick of everyone knowing her through Roy, she’s had enough of school, and she’s even started having panic attacks.

Now it’s up to Rocky to find her own way – as a person and a player – and she’s going to need all her grit and determination to do it…

Published by Rebellion.  More about Rocky here

9 + Game Changer

The newly formed Melchester Women’s team are going from strength to strength in their first full season of professional football, lead by the tenacious Rocky Race. Can she maintain her match-winning performances? And just where does her footballing future lie?

‘I LOVED this book! I love how the story turns from one stage to another. I would definitely recommend it to any girl who enjoys football! I love that Rocky has real determination and passion for the game.’ Jess, Year 5.

Rocky of the Rovers book – Game Changer – was selected for the 2023 Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Game Changer is the latest story about Rocky Race, sister of Roy of the Rovers, and has already been featured on the front page of the Times newspaper.

More about Rocky here

9 + Rocky Takes LA

The Soccer Diaries is a brand new series starring Rocky Race, a British footballer looking to make it big in a US soccer school.

Rocky Race is not your average fourteen year old. She’s determined, ambitious and the best football player you’ve ever seen. So, when she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a prestigious soccer camp in California, USA, she takes it. But far from home, Rocky suddenly finds herself out of her comfort zone. Fake friends, her own anxieties and a brand new world with strange rules all threaten to derail her new life before it’s even started – does Rocky have what it takes to succeed?

Out September 2023. You can pre-order signed and dedicated copies from my local independent bookshop, The Thoughtful Spot here:  https://www.thethoughtfulspotbooks.com/product-page/the-soccer-diaries-book-1-rocky-takes-la

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. 

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

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

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshopHIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

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

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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

Thank you.

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And watch out for a new Rocky of the Rovers book out September 2023

Keep in touch with how the series is progressing and get a newsletter reminder when it is out, email “Rocky Reminder” to admin@tompalmer.co.uk . 

Find out more about Rocky here

Contact me here for more information.