Spring 2024 highlights

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

Mala and Ben illustration by James Innerdale

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…

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And lots more free resources here

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.

More about researching and writing Angel of Grasmere here

Signed and dedicated copies personalised to order from Sam Read Books, Grasmere here. www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/AngelGrasmere/12997

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.