Book Fair Tuesday 13th June 2023

Hampshire Writers’ Society Members’ Book Fair

Tuesday 13^th June 6.30-7.30pm

The Tower Arts Centre, Kings’ School, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5PN

Followed at 7.30pm by a talk from novelist, journalist & short story writer,

DELLA GALTON and guest speaker AJ Spencer

You will find the following authors at the Book Fair where you can browse; chat to authors; and purchase books. Most will have books available to buy or links you can follow to purchase online.

Della Galton

Novelist, journalist, short story writer, writing tutor and agony aunt for the magazine, Writers’ Forum. Della offers writing workshops and courses, some on zoom. Her latest novels will be available to purchase at the Book Fair.

For more information about Della, her books and courses, please visit her website: www.dellagalton.co.uk

Louise Morrish

Louise Morrish is a librarian and author, based in Hampshire. She completed the Faber ‘Write a Novel Online’ course in 2012, and is a member of the Hampshire Writers’ Society, the Historical Writers Association, the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and the Society of Authors. When she’s not writing, she loves to trail run.

Louise Morrish’s 2022 historical fiction debut, Operation Moonlight, is a heart-warming story about Betty, a reclusive centenarian hiding a very dark secret from the War. Described as a truly page-turning story, with enough thrills to satisfy both fans of World War Two fiction and those who love a good romance, Operation Moonlight won the 2019 Penguin Random House First Novel competition.

Louise is represented by Luigi Bonomi at LBA Books. You can find her on Twitter at @LouiseMorrish1, Instagram at @LouiseMorrish_books, and Facebook at Louise Morrish. You can learn more about her books and writing at www.louisemorrish.com.

John Quinn

John has been a member of HWS for several years and tries to enter the monthly comp!

He was an award winning journalist, being named Campaigning Journalist of the Year whilst working for The Mail on Sunday, having first started on the free newspaper in his home town, The Southampton Advertiser.

He is a serial entrepreneur, being a founding investor in our regional radio station, Wave 105. John is married, a keen golfer at Royal Winchester Golf Club and, despite his advanced years, still referees men’s football matches most weekends.

John’s first novel, a crime thriller, The Reporter, is set in Southampton in the late 1980’s and features Jude Devlin, a trainee reporter working on a free newspaper – well, where could that idea have come from, I wonder?

Jude’s gets in too deep investigating the city’s secretive crime family, who are protected by a senior bent officer at Hampshire Police. When Jude’s stories start to affect the family’s business, Jude has to be bought off or scared off, he has to be disposed of.

The strap line for the book is ’To take down a crime family, he must risk his own.’

The book will launch in late June, but I’ll have advanced copies with me!

https://johnbarryquinn.com/

Details of the book can be found on the website of the publisher Burton Mayers Books, https://www.burtonmayersbooks.com/our-books?lightbox=dataItem-lhkfco0i
And my Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064060121129

Jude Hayland

JUDE HAYLAND was a commercial short story writer for women’s magazines for over 25 years, published in the UK and internationally. After completing an M.A. in Creative Writing at Winchester University and graduating with distinction, she switched to writing full length novels and has published three with a four completed and out later this year. She writes literary/commercial/book group fiction and blogs regularly from her website on all things writerly and bookish.

Novels: MILLER STREET SW22 – my third novel – about the complexities of love and loss as well as the power of hope and the possibility of change and redemption – set over a year from 2005/2006, as neighbours prepare for a centenary street party (Cover image from a painting by local Winchester artist, Josephine Chisholm)

THE LEGACY OF MR JARVIS – my second novel has a dual time-line of a late 1960s childhood and an adult perspective of 2008, the novel explores secrets and lies that can lie within a family and fester for years with some entirely unexpected results.

COUNTING THE WAYS – my first novel – with settings ranging from London, Oxford, the Welsh hills and a Greek island, the story explores the complexities of family life and relationships over two generations.

Website: www.judehayland.co.uk

Facebook: Jude Hayland

Twitter: @judehayland Instagram judehaylandwriting

Mark Eyles

After working in the games industry, writing for comics (2000AD & Sonic the Comic) and spending time as an academic running videogame courses, Mark finally settled down to writing books at the start of 2019. His writing draws on his love of science fiction, creating a slightly quirky, but grim and gritty story set on a colony world where everything’s gone nightmarishly wrong.

Mark’s Science Fiction novels: Vast Alien Crisis – Icefall Cities; Vast Alien Crisis – Firedrift Moon

Graphic novel: Stellar Megastructure – Travels of Immortals

You can find out more about Mark on his website: www.eyles.co.uk

Mark’s LinkTree has handy links too: https://linktr.ee/markeyles

Icefall Cities is available as an ebook, self-published on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X21QWXL

Chandlers Ford Writers: Maggie Farran, Catherine Griffin, Sally Howard

Three writing friends from Chandlers Ford who collaborated on a new project in lockdown, culminating with publication of Winchester Actually. Unravel the intrigue of the great train robbery. Witness the thrills and spills of rioting through the streets. Wonder at sacrifices made to save the cathedral and defend the city. Enjoy gentler tales of romance and motherhood set in and around Winchester.

Anthony Ridgway

Anthony is the winner of the Barbara Large Memorial Award 2019 for his achievement of being a published author of two children’s books. He is currently working on his third book. Barbara was his creative writing teacher who spotted his talent and encouraged him to keep on writing.

Ant’s children’s books are about Wizzy, the wheelchair’s adventures and are illustrated by Suzan Houching and published by Little Knoll Press.
Wizzy the Animal Whisperer

Anthony’s first book, Wizzy the Animal Whisperer is available as an audio book read by Sheila and David Suchet.

Wizzy and the Seaside Adventure, second book

To see a short film about Anthony’s book launch with a reading by David Suchet, follow this link.
https://fb.watch/dyE5jjDL7H/

Dai Henley

An award-winning crime and thriller writer.

Dai retired in 2004 following the sale of his local businesses in Southampton and Winchester. He joined a Creative Writing class which he still attends weekly. He is also a regular visitor to the Hampshire Writers’ Society and the annual Winchester Writers’ Festival

He writes crime dramas with the themes of obsession, revenge and justice. He’s attended many murder trials at the Old Bailey. The capacity of ‘ordinary’ people who become motivated to carry out extraordinary acts never ceases to amaze him.

He received wonderful reviews and won several awards for his debut novel, Blazing Obsession: a silver medal from The Wishing Shelf and a Top Ten place in Bookbag’s self-published novels in 2014.

His novels: Endless Obsession; Reckless Obsession; and Blazing Obsession will be available at the book fair and are also available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. To find out more visit his website: http://www.daihenley.co.uk

Damon L. Wakes

Damon writes everything from humour to horror and produces a brand new work of flash fiction every day during July each year. Damon also writes interactive fiction and games, and provided the story and dialogue for Game of the Year nominated virtual reality title Craft Keep VR.

Ten Little Astronauts— a novella published by Unbound

To find out more about Damon and his many books visit his website:
https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authordamonwakes

Twitter: @DamonWakes

Newsletter: https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/newsletter/

Lynn Farley Rose

Lynn Farley-Rose spent her childhood by the sea in Devon and then went to university in London. She spent some years working as a research psychologist before a move to East Sussex resulted in a complete change of lifestyle. At one point she was responsible for the welfare of thirty-two animals and eight species including her four children. 31 Treats And A Marriage was her first book and arose out of an interest in ways to cope when life throws up challenges. Her second book The Interview Chain is an exploration of connections between people. She now lives in Hampshire, has no animals and is working on her third book. In her regular blog at treatsandmore.com she writes about topics of general interest from a popular psychological perspective.

31 Treats And A Marriage

From Austen to Brown—a giant table in Liverpool to hidden churches in London— New York to Edinburgh—and cannibalistic spiders to a horse named Twilight—

When Lynn’s family seemed finally to have overcome a series of disasters, and her husband was at last in recovery from cancer, she thought it was time to focus on recovering herself. She decided to have some treats—not frivolous material things but exploratory, enriching experiences. Then life threw up a new obstacle and she found that the problems weren’t over. In fact they were about to get much worse—and suddenly the treats became something far more; they became a lifeline.

The Interview Chain

Everyone has something interesting to say if you take the time to listen. The Interview Chain is a series of conversations—each interviewee was asked to nominate someone they admire as the next link. Starting from a casual conversation on a boat on the Thames, the chain wended its way for over 23,000 miles, alighting on three continents and gathering up personal perspectives on issues that really matter in the world today. The interviewees include a theatre director, a rabbi, a philanthropist, a sculptor, a New York Mayoral candidate, a pioneering documentary maker, and a man who rescues giant trees. Some have worked in challenging places—Kabul under the Taliban, a Romanian orphanage, immigration detention centres, remote Indian villages—while others have found themselves caught up in extraordinary situations such as the Rwandan genocide, the Ferguson uprising, and the UN Climate Change Negotiations.

Marion Dante

Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was born in answer to prayer. At the age of 14, she left home and started her training to become a Salesian Sister. Fired with the desire to save souls she eventually became a nun and a successful teacher and spent many happy and eventful years in the convent.

Leaving the convent 33 years later, Marion wrote her autobiography,

Dropping the Habit: A gripping, honest book in which she opens the door to the convent and bares her soul.

Searching for Love: Her first novel in the Frankie Danivet series and tells the story of innocent young postulant Frankie, struggling to decide between love or the church. Its sequel, A Love as Strong: Frankie as she transitions from life at the content to life and love in the outside world.

Camino Tales: Frankie joins a group en route to Santiago Compostela and discovers that alongside the physical journey, she might benefit from an inner probing of her previous life.

Marion Dante hails from Limerick and has lived in England since 1955.Marion entered the convent aged 14 and left 33 years later.

As a member of the Society of Authors and as a public speaker has addressed various groups including – Women’s Institute, The Townswomen’s Guild, Probus, Rotary, Inner Wheel, Tangent and various retirement groups.

Marion was on RTE (Irish) television and radio as part of the publicity at the launch of her autobiography. She has featured in BBC Programmes such as Heart and Soul BBC World Service, Radio Four Saturday Live and in February 2017 she spoke on BBC Radio Surrey taking part in the BBC Listening Project. (Stored in the British Library).

She is a member of The Three Counties Cancer Support Group, The Kindred Spirits Choir, Camberley and Farnborough U3A in which she takes part in Italian, yoga, walking and ukulele groups. Marion also attends aqua aerobics and is a Member of National Women’s Register Group, discussion, dining and reading group.

To find out more about Marion visit her website: https://www.mariondante.com

Martin Kyrle

Martin’s travels books:

Jottings from the Trans-Siberian Railway

Read the Allison Symes’ interview with Martin Kyrle about the writing of this book and of his adventures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the http://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/jottings-from-the-trans-siberian-railway-part-2-martin-kyrle-interview/

Jottings from Russia and the Baltic States. Part 1: Russia and Estonia.

Lynn Clement

The book The City of Stories and is published by Chapel Town Books. It is a collection of flash fiction, short stories and poems, some of which have won or been ‘placed’ in Hampshire Writers’ competitions.

The stories and editing have all been completed during lockdown, with the help of Allison Symes (Hampshire Writers’ Society member as my editor via Chapel Town books.)

The stories are mainly observations around ordinary people, dealing with extra-ordinary things in their lives. There are some gothic horror or sci-fi and humorous stories too. An eclectic mix. Something for everyone. The poems are hopefully moving.

The City of Stories by Lynn Clement – published by Chapeltown Books

Shelagh Moore

Author of children’s books and educational writer.

Illustrated stories for children of all ages to enjoy.

The Plastic Warrior

The Little Reindeer

The Lost Dinosaur

The Boy Who Saved Christmas

To find out more about Shelagh’s books visit her website https://shelaghmoorebooks.co.uk

Penny Monro

Penny grew up in East Anglia and after several years teaching English Literature in New Zealand and Australia she returned to Cambridge where her two children spent their time at home. Once the nest was empty SOS Children’s Villages and The Serendipity Trust gave her opportunities to work in education in Malawi and Sri Lanka. When Penny returned to the UK she lived on the coast in rural Dorset and then nine years ago she finally settled in Winchester where she is a member of the Hampshire Writers’ Society and Winchester Muse.

The poems in her first collection Marmalade Peel have been written and tweaked over many years. The poems reflect some of her global impressions and memories but emotions and a more domestic life are also re-visited.