Thank you to everybody who sponsored me on the annual Sussex Heart Charity walk on 14th May 2017. Myself and 161 other people completed the walk. Thank you for all the donations and for helping me smash my fundraising target.
It's not to late to donate. Click here for Elly's Just-Giving page
Alan Gaunt recounted the story of WW1 soldier Cecil Packer in a moving feature on BBC Gloucestershire at 9:14am on Sunday 7th May 2017.
The May 2017 issue of 'Countryside-la-Vie' describes this book about growing-up in The Salvation Army in the 1950s/60s as an, "... entertaining & moving memoir of a youth spent trying to balance the desire to enjoy a normal boyhood with the demands of his parents' calling ... captures evocatively a lost world and finally resolves a family mystery."
Raring2Go - the popular website for parents - is running a competition with copies of Ken Metcalfe's entertaining children's books as prizes.
On 8th April the newspaper carried a full-page feature about C.R. Hopkins' amusing & thought-provoking memoir. 'The Weekly News' said, 'Clive has written a great book about his memoiries of growing up in a strictly Salvation Army household'
Elly is taking part in the Sussex Heart Charity annual sponsored walk on 14 May as a way of saying thank you for the wonderful cardiac care she has received. Elly is hoping to raise £500 for the charity. To donate, TEXT: EDPR59 and the amount you wish to give to: 70070 or
As part of their 'Business of Books' series, the culture and lifestyle magazine interviewed Elly about the work of a Book Publicist.
C.R. Hopkins' entertaining account of growing up in The Salvation Army during the 1950s & 60s is being published by MereoBooks on 10th April 2017.
Alan Gaunt's latest book - telling the story of Gloucestershire soldier Cecil Packer (1885 - 1916) - is being published by Mereo Books on 24th April 2017.
... A. Byrom (Saddleworth); C. Evans (Manchester); M. Almond (Bury) & C. Macdonald (Doncaster). They each receive a copy of "An Extraordinary Sacrifice." Thank you to everybody who entered.
Click here for further information about The PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund.
Our lucky winners have been notified. They will each receive a signed copy of 'GAY DAD: Ten True Stories of Divorced Gay Men with Kids, Living in the UK Today' by David Ledain.
I haveTHREE signed copies of "GAY DAD: Ten True Stories of Divorced Gay Men with Kids, Living in the UK Today" to give away. The first three people to email me with their name and UK postal address will each receive a copy. Good luck!
