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

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New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

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

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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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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.

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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.

Refugee Week
19-25 June 2023
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.

Refugee Week Free Resources
In June 2023, I am offering these FREE resources for Refugee Week, with links to PHSE / Literacy / History, available now from here.

“Boat People” with the National Literacy Trust includes :

• 5 very short stories about people who have had to escape danger by boat, set in the years 1914, 1943, 1975, 2010 and today

Available in print to read aloud from here called “RW23 stories” https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/refugee-week/

Or to watch being read aloud by me from here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmmlG7jutI-1sTB2jvWewnZQBc-eQlddq

• an introductory assembly (15 minutes long) from me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzUXr-o3g9M
• 5 writing exercises delivered by video, relating to the stories and the theme of refugees, with worksheets for the children
• a teachers’ guide
• a live virtual Q&A event for the classroom, the chance to chat to me about my stories and how I write, 22 June at 2 p.m.

Combined powerpoint very kindly shared by Penketh High  of all the writing exercises for lesson time here.  

Certificate for your school or classroom or for individual work
Download here

“Boat Peop

Refugee Week Virtual Events

• 21 June at 4.30 p.m – “Empowerment through compassion” – A virtual CPD event for teachers with Tom and Helen McCord from UCL for schools   More information and book now here 

This live CPD event for teachers and others on 21st June at 4 p.m. from Windermere will be hosted by UCL Holocaust Education and the Lake District Holocaust Project and will explore the story of 300 children, Holocaust survivors who came to live in Cumbria in 1945, direct from the concentration camps of Europe.  More information and book now here https://holocausteducation.org.uk/courses/2023/06/empowerment-through-compassion/ 

• 22 June at 2 pm – a live virtual Q&A event for the classroom, the chance to chat to me about my stories and how I write alongside authors Ada Jusic and Nadine Kaadan on 22 June at 2 p.m. Book now here https://literacytrust.org.uk/events/refugee-week-2023/

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“Several of my latest published books have featured child refugees who have made it to the UK to be taken in by families and communities.

I did this because I have visited many schools and communities that have children who are refugees from Syria (and other troubled places in the world) and met them and heard their stories.

That – and reading books and articles about the war – motivated me to develop Yusra, Galip and Aylan as characters in my children’s books.

I did it, also, because I want children who are in all schools to be able to read about how we – in our relatively safe and stable country – can help people whose lives have been smashed to pieces and how we need to remember this country has a history of taking in and accepting refugees.

Here are a selection of my relevant books …

After the War (Barrington Stoke) is the story of 300 children, Holocaust survivors who came to live in Cumbria in 1945, direct from the concentration camps of Europe. It is based on survivor testimonies.

D-Day Dog (Barrington Stoke)  I wanted to think about how today’s refugees are part of our history, part of our future and that is why it is so good to welcome them to the UK.

Gus the Fantastic Football Cat (Egmont, KS1) is about a Syrian girl and her dad who look after a rescue cat when they arrive in the UK from Syria. The parallel of the girl taken in by a UK community and her, in turn, taking a rescue cat in is the only thing about the story that relates to her background. The rest of the story is hopefully a lot lighter, as the cat reveals it can predict World Cup football results.

Pitch Invasion (Barrington Stoke) is a bit more direct. The story is about a haunted hillfort in Cornwall and a ghostbusting duo – Seth and Nadiya – who realise there is a parallel between the ghost of Iron Age refugees escaping the brutal Romans by heading west and two Syrian boys – Galip and Aylan – who have recently been taken in by a Cornish family, after tragedy in Syria. The refugees I describe could well have been some of your Iron Age ancestors, people who might have been part of Boudica’s Iceni tribe after she was killed fighting them. I wanted to think about how there are refugees now just as there always have been. People have always had to flee. Then and now.”

More resources :

Watch Now “NLT Refugee Week virtual event: In Conversation with Tom Palmer”  recorded from 20 June 2022 here

Certificate to share with your pupils here.

All the other Refugee Week resources with the National Literacy Trust are all now available from here .. https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/refugee-week-2022/

“The Girl in the Lewandowski Top” – is a FREE 5 part story about a Ukrainian Refugee in 2022 with teacher guide and worksheets. This was written for Refugee Week 2022 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • • Read “The Girl in the Lewandowski Top” here
    • Teacher Guide here
    • Worksheets here

“Them” – is a FREE 5 part read aloud story set in 1945, from the point of view of the children in the Lake District community who received 300 child refugees from the Nazi concentration camps after the end of the Second World War.  This was written for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • • Read “Them” here
    • A powerpoint introducing “Them” here
    • 5 short films and worksheets to support “Them” story and inspire pupils to write their own responses here
    • A teacher guide with ideas and sources to support your delivery of “Them” and children’s writing here
    • 5 short films of Tom reading out loud “Them” available from here
      

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“The Question” is a FREE 5 part read aloud story set today, from the point of view of pupils meeting a Holocaust survivor at their school and asking them about their refugee experience.  This was written for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • •  Read “The Question” here for you to read aloud / stream / share or as a series of 5 films of Tom reading the story for you to use however suits your school here ).

You can also find out more about the Windermere children’s story in my children’s book “After the War from Auschwitz to Ambleside” here.

More resources from Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 here.

More resources from Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 here.

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6 June 2023 D-Day in fiction : D-Day Dog

2023 marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.

To mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2023, I will have a SPECIAL competition coming soon on twitter to win your own Glenn soft toy dog and a signed copy of D-Day Dog.

Follow me on twitter @tompalmerauthor for a chance to win.

Jack can’t wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It’s his chance to learn more about the war heroes he has always admired – brave men like his dad, who is a reserve soldier. But when his dad is called up to action and things at home spiral out of control, everything Jack believes about war is thrown into question.

Finding comfort only in the presence of his loyal dog, Finn, Jack is drawn to the heart-wrenching true story of one particular D-Day paratrooper. On 6 June 1944, Emile Corteil parachuted into France with his dog, Glen – and Jack is determined to discover their fate … More about D-Day Dog here.

D-Day Resources

Poster to download here      

D-Day Dog cover prediction worksheets  Download here

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

10 Questions about War for class discussions Download here    

Colouring What view do you think Jack and his new puppy are looking at? Can you draw the plane Emile and his dog Glenn are parachuting out or where they might be landing? Download 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 bookshop HIVE

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    

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May 2023 15th Anniversary of Foul Play

Foul Play was my first children’s football series for Puffin.

Football Detective Danny Harte’s adventures took him all over the world tackling football crimes with the help of his friend Charlotte Duncan.

The series was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award

Follow me on twitter @tompalmerauthor for the chance coming up to win a very special Foul Play prize.

Find out more about Foul Play 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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World Book Day – Thursday 2 March 2023

For World Book Day 2023, I am offering a live virtual event and a free mini-film to share in the classroom. More activities and dress-up ideas linked to my books follow on below …

Thurs 2 March World Book Day Virtual Event
A virtual chat with the Anne Frank Trust about my book “Resist” and the links between Audrey Hepburn and Anne Frank.  Catch up now here …

My World Book Day message here

And here is a reminder of what I got up to last year …

World Book Day 2022

To help you celebrate World Book Day, I’ve recorded a free virtual film for assembly/class for schools to show on the day.  Filmed from Anne Frank’s Haus, Amsterdam, I’ll be sharing why her diary is one of my all-time favourite books.  Watch below or in YouTube…

Free World Book Day Activities

There are lots of free fun quizzes, colouring and a powerpoint for schools to download here and downloadable posters to print for displays or bunting here.  Or try these World Book Day dress up ideas …  (Permission has been given to share photos of all children).

Dress Up Ideas

Stuck for ideas on costumes? I have written about a variety of characters and if you are stuck for ideas, I hope there will be something for everyone here to dress up as a character from my books …

Sports fans could dress up as a runner from Armistice Runner, a footballer from Football Academy or go to school in your rugby kit as Woody, Owen or Rory from Rugby Academy.

Or history fans could dress up as a soldier, pilot, or sailor or an Iron-age, Viking, Anglo-Saxon or Roman child from one of my other books. There’s lots of ideas below:

Edda from Resist

Elsie here is young Edda from my children’s book Resist, based on the wartime resistance childhood of Audrey Hepburn.

Elsie certainly looks the part with her plaits, continental hat, simple dress and the all important bag to hide her resistance newsletters.  Thanks for sharing this with us, Elsie.

Arctic Star

Herbie here is a brave young sailor from the Arctic Convoys.

With a waterproof coat, woolly hat, thick sheepskin gloves, and a life jacket Herbie looks ready to take on the threats above and below the arctic ocean in the Second World War.  Not forgetting the addition of a whistle in case he goes overboard.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Herbie.

Lily and the fell runners from Armistice Runner

If you enjoy running with a club or can borrow a running vest & shorts or hoodie and leggings with trainers, you could be Lily and one of her team mates from Armistice Runner.

Maybe add a medal round your neck or pin a paper number to your top.

Lucy and Amelie have been inspired by Lily and have taken up fell running and competed in the impressive Kendal Winter League.

Jake and the team from Football Academy:  

The characters in Football Academy are from a wide range of family backgrounds see the team list here  to give you more ideas. Kit tips:

• football top (ideally red) but other colours could be the away kit or a goalkeepers kit
• shorts
• long socks
• football boots or trainers
• a Football Academy book – borrow one from your local library or print a picture of the cover off here

“The only character that my son, Albie (aged 7 and in Year 3) wanted to dress up as on World Book Day was Jake Oldfield from Boys United. I was happy to customize a shirt for him, and he couldn’t have been prouder as he went through the school gates this morning.”   Emma

More footballers in my books:

Kofi Danquah is a brilliant young African player from a family of cocoa farmers.  With Danny’s help he ends up being signed by a top UK club. (Bi
smark Boateng, the player who I met and based my character Kofi Danquah on, is now on the books of Manchester City and is currently on loan in Norway).

• any premier league top
• a bar of fairtrade chocolate
• a copy of Offside cover here 

Lily and Khalid love playing football in Secret FC

• any sporty top and trainers
• a copy of Secret FC cover here

Rocky and Roy of the Rovers are older footballers ideal for both girls and boys to dress up as.  Kit tips:

• Red & yellow kit
• A Melchester Badge
• Your favourite Rocky or Roy book

There are other sporty and brave spying girls and boys in my Squad books Black Op and White Fear more here.  In White Fear (sorry, spoiler coming) Lesh is in a wheelchair but he still plays a vital role in the Squad team  with his skills in gadgetry and computer systems to prevent an international war breaking out.

• a wheelchair
• a gadget or laptop

Woody and the team from Rugby Academy

Theo pictured here as Woody from Combat Zone.

Kit tips

• rugby / stripy top
• shorts / tracksuit bottoms
• trainers / rugby boots
• mouth shield / head guard

History / Forces

Army – soldiers like Jack in my book Over the Line, who served in the footballer’s battallion from the First World War.  Kit ideas:

• green top & trousers
• black boots
• print out this medal

Navy – sailors like Frank, Joseph and Stephen from Arctic Star who served on HMS Belfast in the Second World War. Kit ideas :

• A big coat
• Wellington boots
• A snow shovel
• A Sowester hat
• Fake snow on fake beards or eyebrows
• An Arctic Star medal

RAF Pilots – like Jatinder in my book Flyboy or Greg in Spitfire.  Kit ideas:

• swimming goggles
• hat with ear flaps
• heavy jacket

you could even make a cardboard sopwith camel or spitfire to wear

Parachutist like Private Emile Corteil who served in the Parachute Battalion with ‘Para Dog’ Glen and took part in the D-Day landings to Normandy on 6 June 1944 and is a character in my book D-Day Dog. (Thanks for the photo Toby Naidoo from Queensland Australia)

RAF / Modern day pilots – like Jess and Maddie in Typhoon.  Kit suggestions:

• plainish onesie or dungarees
• jacket
• helmet with pipes coming out of it

Nadiya and Seth super ghost hunters from Defenders:

If you want to go further back in time, how about dressing up as one of the ghostly visions seen by Nadiya and Seth in my Defenders series:

Killing Ground (Vikings & Anglo Saxons) 
Dark Arena  (Roman Britain) 
Pitch Invasion  (Iron Age Celts)

Previous World Book Day resources :

Here’s Peterborough United Football Club’s World Book Day film ..

Get in touch if you’d like me to send your school a world book day message.   Email me for more information here or use my contact form here.

“The work of this author is making a valuable contribution to improving pupils’ writing.” Ofsted

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.

Schools bumper book pack and class set offers here.

Visit my  bookshop  or support your local bookshop HIVE

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

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

Thank you.

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Monday 27th February – Sunday 12th March 2023

Fairtrade Fortnight is a great opportunity to get children thinking about where they spend their money and the difference that choice can make other people’s lives.  My children’s book “Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

This year, I am offering a FREE virtual, poster packs and a chance to win 6 months supply of Divine Chocolate!

2023 Virtual Event with Fairtrade Foundation

Join me on 7 March for a virtual event with the Fairtrade Foundation.

Book here 

Poster packs

“Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

The hero of my children’s book Offside, is a boy called Kofi, who – as well as being a gifted footballer – is the son of cocoa bean farmers in Ghana.

At the beginning of the Off Side, Kofi’s family were being cheated and not paid a fair amount for their beans.

By the end they had become part of the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative which supplies chocolate manufacturers Divine.

I was very lucky, when in Ghana researching my novel Offside, that Divine took me to meet some farmers and to Akomaden School which is directly paid for by our buying Fairtrade Chocolate.

I have seen how the choice we make to buy Fairtrade chocolate improves lives: children being well-schooled, families learning to run their own businesses and  improved homes and healthcare.

Fairtrade Fortnight Resources

Free Fairtrade schools’ pack

Read Chapter One here.  

Virtual Fairtrade visits

I offer virtual and in-person school visits to talk about fair trade, reading, writing and football, linked to my book – Off Side – about a sixteen year old son of a cocoa farmer who is trafficked from Ghana to England, thinking he is going to be a famous footballer.  Having seen at first hand the difference it makes, I try to choose Fair Trade where I can.

Find out more about my Fairtrade visits here .

Football Trafficking

Off Side also looks at people trafficking, particularly the exploitation of young footballers from Africa.

Signed and dedicated copies of my books make an ideal Christmas gift. 

They are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

And each order made through the Thoughtful Spot will come with a special Christmas Card created by our good friend and illustrator James Innerdale  to mark the publication of a new book of mine and a bookmark.

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.

Order now here.

We have also been asked for books to be dedicated in memory of an armed forces family member.  For example, on copies of Arctic Star Tom can add a name and the ship the served on in memory of someone who served in the Royal Navy.

You can contact the “The Thoughtful Spot”  here for more information and to order.

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

Thank you.

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