After a strenuous selection process throughout October, we are making good progress in preparation for our publication of "New Contexts" in the new year. With all shortlisted submissions how verified, final preparations are now underway in advance of proof production in early December. Subject to signing that off, "New Contexts: 1" will be available from [...]
Coverstory books is proud to be contributing to the new UK-based on-line bookselling platform, bookshop.org! A books-only alternative to the internet giants, and which directly supports small independent UK bookshops. We now have our own page on the site: Coverstory books - please go and check it out! Most books are offered at a discount [...]
Coverstory books is thrilled to be bringing to market its first collection of plays. These three plays, all produced by Hertfordshire-based community theatre 'Pins & Feathers', tell extraordinary stories of ordinary people. With emotion and humour, they bring history to life, portraying characters challenged by events beyond their control, whose defiant voices resonate today. Published [...]
We often encounter difficulty when trying to reconcile our memories of events with what actually happened. In the almost inevitable mis-match, our mind plays tricks on us, and what we have recently learned and how we have recently lived gets in the way and colours the past. Pressed to recall his own life, the challenge [...]
The hill country of West Somerset is famous for its association with the Romantic poets, Coleridge and Wordsworth, whose Lyrical Ballads (1798) emerged out of their experience of the area and revolutionised English poetry. It was 130 years later that a young teacher, Berta Lawrence, came to live in the same part of the county. [...]
