Jennifer Copley
Beans in Snow

Childhood smells of gingerbread and hot porridge. It wears red shoes, glass slippers and seven league boots. And everyone lives happily ever after. But it is also a dark wood full of hungry giants, big bad wolves and child-sized ovens… Beans in Snow is not just a brilliant and original re-working of some well-known fairy-tales, it is a book with something profound to say about childhood and growing up.

“urgent, visceral… not for the faint-hearted”

U.A. Fanthorpe

Kathleen Kenny
Hole

Kathleen Kenny was brought up in a family where her father and her brother never spoke to each other. Hole is the story of a lifelong struggle to understand the unspoken secrets contained in the silences of her childhood.

Linda France
book of days

At the beginning of 2006, Linda France set herself the challenge of writing a renga verse every day for twelve months. Adapting the classical Japanese form, she has created a new one, the world’s first ‘year renga’. Friends, walks, the weather, things seen, heard and read, became her collaborators in 365 word pictures, illustrated by Sue Dunne’s striking ceramic fragments – reliefs created by casting flowers, leaves and branches found in the woods and hedgerows of Northumberland as a year unfolds.

Linda, Kathleen and Jennifer are launching their new Smokestack titles together at the Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE on Wednesday 28th October at 7.00 pm.