Spring News 2025

What’s on offer World Book Day and Spring 2025

Meet Me!
My Rocky Takes the Lead £1 World Book Day book
My World Book Day writing journey films – how I write
World Book Day Dress up ideas and resources
27 March 2025 – NEW Soccer Diaries Book 3: Rocky Goes for Goal
Signed Books for Easter
Author Visit options and availability
How to subscribe to my newsletter by email
11 September 2025 – War Dog – a Historical non-fiction picture book Out
September 2025 – a new Sporting Fiction trilogy Book 1 COMING SOON
LATEST Angel of Grasmere resources FREE posters and resources
All year round FREE Football fiction resources – posters and certificates

Meet Me!

Saturday 8 March 2025 Oxford Story Museum
Saturday 15 March 2025 Words by the Water Festival, Keswick
Saturday 29 March 2025 Thoughtful Spot, Halifax
Sunday 11 May 2025 Imperial War Museum North

More details here

6 March 2025 – World Book Day – Exciting news!

I have written a new Rocky story which has been selected as one of the books you can choose with your World Book Day 2025 vouchers.

In Rocky Takes the Lead – will Rocky be able to take the lead and show both her British and her American friends that they’re all united by football?

Available from February 2025 for World Book Day – 6 March 2025
£1 / E1.50 or your WBD voucher

More about Rocky here

More about World Book Day 2025 here

My World Book Day Writing Journey

I’ve been making a video diary to share my writing journey from idea to the finished book for you to follow here

Getting a book deal
Reading other books
Researching
Planning
Writing my first draft
Finishing the first draft
Editing
Responding to feedback
The news is out

Watch now here …

6 March 2025 – World Book Day

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

And lots more free resources here

More here

27 March 2025 – NEW Soccer Diaries
Book 3: Rocky Goes for Goal

Can Rocky Race lead her team to victory?

Now that Rocky has her grades under control, she can focus on the most important thing: she is going to the California Soccer Championships! With only weeks to go until the big match, Rocky is starting to… get nervous? But she never gets scared before a match! So why is she having nightmares, and dreading training after school? Everyone is counting on her, and she knows that winning the championship gives her a better chance of going pro. With so much pressure, will Rocky be able to step up and take the winning shot?

Book 3 in The Soccer Diaries series starring Rocky Race, a British footballer looking to make it big.

More here

Signed Books for Easter

My books are all 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 card and bookmark.

The exclusive illustration was designed by our good friend James Innerdale to mark the publication of Angel of Grasmere.

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

Order now here.

More here

2025 Author visits options and availability

I am available for author visits both in person, pre-records and virtual from June 2025 linking to …

a focus on Historical Fiction
my Football Reading Game
my Rugby Reading Game
talks about Fair Trade
writing workshops
shorter sessions for pupils with SEND
assemblies
presentations
workshops
virtual visits
writing-history-with-the-imperial-war-museum

More about my author visits here

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SPOTLIGHT ON MY LATEST publication
“Angel of Grasmere:from Dunkirk to the Fells”
By Tom Palmer Published NOW by Barrington Stoke.

July 1940 – Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and she and her friends scour the hills around their Westmorland home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion.

But as the war drags on, with little good news from the front, the locals become aware of someone carrying out anonymous acts of kindness. With no one claiming credit, the village come to think of this unidentified stranger as a kind of guardian angel, but when his identity is finally revealed can Tarn come to terms with the truth…?

Links – Effect of war on countryside, Evacuees,Bombing of cities – Manchester,Bombing of Ports- Barrow in Furness, evacuation of Allied forces from the French port of Dunkirk in 1940, Battle of Britain,Rivers.

Free resources HERE … tompalmer.co.uk/angel-of-grasmere/

- Trailer https://youtu.be/BAwGDDuNRHk
- Tom’s writer’s scrapbook
- Tom’s writer’s diary
- Interview with Tom
- A cover prediction set of worksheets
- Angel paper dolls activity
- Settings map worksheet
- Playscript

“In the darkest of days, that’s when the miracles begin”

FREE Poster packs available on request from here.

Download high-res posters by clicking on the images below:

War Dog – a Historical non-fiction picture book

Out 11 September 2025

I will have a new children’s historical non-fiction picture book out in September. War Dog is a very special illustrated true story about Judy hero of the Second World War.

More here tompalmer.co.uk/war-dog/
Sign up for previews here tompalmer.co.uk/new-writing/
Pre-order now Amazon
Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here.

COMING SOON – a Sporting Fiction trilogy

Book 1 out September 2025

Sign up for previews here tompalmer.co.uk/new-writing/
Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here.

All year round FREE Football fiction resources – posters and certificates

I have FREE certificates I can sign for readers of all my books.

Football Academy
Foul Play
Roy and Rocky of the Rovers
My History Books

Tell me here if your pupils have read a whole series and you can receive a special signed certificate to present to them.

If you would like a football poster pack please visit my poster order page here

More football resources 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.