Book Fair 12th December 2023

6.45pm -7.30pm

Hampshire Writers’ Society

The Tower, King’s School, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5PN

Book Fair held prior to the evening’s talks from Adrienne Dines and Jill French.
Please come along to the Book Fair to support HWS members who will have their published books available for sale. Enjoy a browse and a chat!

Authors attending:

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. 

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B. Random

Sci-Fi/Fantasy author of three novels, Survivorship; Alienship; and Ridership

A passion for sci-fi/ fantasy as a teenager led to B. Random writing a first book aged fourteen. After a family and a career in law and medicine, came a chance to return to her first love for writing. Her inspirations come from science, wildlife and nature, especially the sea. She has been a member of the Hampshire Writers’ Society since its inception.

The appeal of living in another world, escaping from the mundane, endures.  Delighting in the weird and wonderful, sharing glorious flights of imagination, she draws you into fantasy lands and darkest emotion. The style will take your breath away and make you smile. Expect a vivid roller-coaster of action, emotion and the unexpected. For her, the writer’s reward is to take other people into that brand new world and show them its magic. 

Alienship – An action packed adventure spanning galaxies, set after Ky’s alien father leaves for his home planet Mrax, bringing to life a model made from junk for his son; his comic sidekick.

Survivorship – An adventure between worlds. The race is on to save Earth. On planet Mrax to learn about his father’s world, Ky finds a powerful enemy among the Elders, who wants to rid his pristine planet of a ‘worthless half-breed’. As he struggles to fit in, a baby Mrug adopts him and becomes another challenge for Ky.

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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

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Alex Delany

Alex Delany is a first-time writer, having retired in 2018 from a long-term technical career in IT involving significant amounts of travel and work with banks worldwide, which somewhat informs the background to his novel Strategic Intent. He moved into the Winchester area in late 2019 and joined the Hampshire Writers Society in 2023. 

Strategic Intent, a thriller.

The story follows our protagonist from his role as a technical strategy consultant working with a large UK bank, via recruitment into an innovative government-sponsored quantum software company in Kazakhstan, through to belated realisation that he is caught up in a conspiracy far larger and more serious than his own narrow and naïve view of the world. With fatal results.

“The best tale of quantum computing, cryptography, folk myths, modern imperialism and cult horror films that I’ve read this year”

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Damon L Wakes

Fiction and interactive games writer will have his huge collection of books available for sale, including the latest anthology, Order and Chaos from Breakthrough Books which reached  No.1 on Amazon ‘hot new anthology’ list.

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.

Order and Chaos, an anthology from Breakthrough Books that opens with one of his flash fiction pieces. That story is “Songbird and Statue,” which also provided the anthology’s theme.

Ancient gods in conflict and a zombie on welfare,

a disappearing boyfriend and AI with daddy issues, a balloon bound for icy danger and a mysterious theft at the museum, a sinister woodland cabin and a pleasure house that’ll cost much more than you can afford.

Raiding parties in dystopia, art classes in the city, opposites attracting and love catching fire. Separations and siblings, life and death decisions, flying into trouble and traveling to self-discovery…

Which comes first, chaos or order? The cycles between may seem inevitable, and change may be the only constant, but what does that mean for the human experience?

Sixteen authors from the Breakthrough Books collective explore our relationships with nature and technology, science and the sacred, each other and ourselves, offering an array of stories as individual as every reader.

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/

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Anne Wan

Children’s writer and author of the Snow Globe trilogy and picture book, Manners Fit for the Queen.  

nne began writing six years ago when her middle son became ill. As he convalesced she helped him transform an idea that he had, into a book. This ignited her enthusiasm for writing stories for children. She started writing picture books as a hobby and went on to study creative writing with Barbara Large. Anne is passionate about inspiring children as readers and writers. She enjoys giving talks, craft and storytelling sessions in schools, libraries, and Brownie groups.

Having completed the Snow Globe trilogy, I am excited to announce the release of my debut picture book Manners Fit for the Queen. In this humorous story, Hector causes chaos with his terrible table manners. His sister, Isobel, has found her own way to cope with the mess. But how will she cope when they are both invited to a tea party with the Queen?

Secrets of the Snow Globe – Menacing Magic is the finale to my ‘Secrets in the Snow Globe’ series. Chaos rages in the world inside the snow globe following the theft of seven, magical, diamond snowflakes. In a race against time, Louisa and her brother, Jack, shrink into the globe and embark on a perilous journey to catch the thief. Can they retrieve thenowflakes before the snow globe world is destroyed?

Secrets of the Snow Globe – Vanishing Voices

Can they succeed in their quest to help their new friends, and find a way back to Grandma’s house? A captivating adventure story of courage and friendship for 7-9 yrs. In a land of magic, snow, and secrets Louisa and her brother, Jack, are flung into a dangerous mountain adventure when they shrink into their Grandma’s snow globe.

Secrets of the Snow Globe  – Shooting Star

How much does Grandma know about the snow globe’s magic? Louisa and her brother, Jack, are determined to discover the truth. In this sequel to, Secrets of the Snow Globe – Vanishing Voices, Grandma’s story is revealed. But how much should she tell? After all, some secrets are best left untold…

Are you ready for the magic?

You can purchase the books from http://anne-wan.com/

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Lynn Farley-Rose

Author of 31 Treats And A Marriage and The Interview Chain

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.

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Natasha Orme

Editor, travel writer and thriller writer. Her crime thriller, Murder in the Fast Lane is out now!

I’m a book-loving, writing enthusiast. I love to travel, drink tea and pet every animal I meet. When I’m not elbow deep in the editing world, you can usually find me being silly and having fun with my young son.

Murder in the Fast Lane

Formula One racer Stacey James is taking the world by storm. But when her body double is killed on the Hungarian podium, things begin to spiral out of control.
Menacing phone calls, creepy photos and subtle threats. This guy just won’t quit. The worst part? Everyone’s a suspect but the police are no closer to getting answers.
Jason Hunter, personal security specialist and dad of two, has been hired to provide protection. But can he keep Stacey safe and catch the killer? Or is he out of his depth and putting more lives on the line?

Webiste: https://writer.natashaorme.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writernatashaorme/

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

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Chandlers Ford Writers: Maggie Farran, Catherine Griffin and 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.

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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

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Martin Kyrle

Travel writer and author of Jottings from the Trans-Siberian Railway  and Jottings from Russia and the Baltic States.  Part 1: Russia and Estonia.

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/

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Mary L Phillips

Audio book narrator and storyteller from Riveting Narration  

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