“Pale stars hung in the wintry sky, over silver mist and the golden crown of Bran mac Febail, High King of Ireland. Wandering alone through the forest, he paused beneath a lofty oak tree, enchanting music lingering on the air. Resting his back against the gnarled trunk, Bran sat down, and let the sweet melody […]
Author archives: Douglas Walker
‘The Awesome Space Race’ – a source of pleasures and treasures.
Are you a grandparent looking for a fun and creative way to keep in touch with a grandchild during lockdown? Let me recommend writing a book together. My 7½ year old grandson, Rory, and I co-wrote ‘The Awesome Space Race’ last year while he was homeschooling. Starting with a few tentative sentences from Rory in […]
‘From Africa to Stonehenge’ by David Hayes.
My name is David Hayes and I am the author of a new book entitled “From Africa to Stonehenge”. What made me – a retired nuclear physicist – write a book on human prehistory? The short answer is that I do not really know, but here is some information that may well be relevant. I […]
‘The Hunting of the Boojum’ by Samuel Sigdon.
‘The Hunting of the Boojum’ is a nonsensical sequel to Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem, ‘The Hunting of the Snark’. The Hunting of the Snark has fascinated me since university days when it was scrupulously read once a term at the termly Snark Club Dinner. In the Hunting of the Snark, a crew of ten unlikely […]
‘A Theory of Everything’ Things I Wish I’d Known at Your Age. By Jonathan R. Tuck
I started writing ‘A Theory of Everything’ in 2017 after attending a workshop hosted by Dr. Linda Mallory, which addressed parents of children diagnosed with ‘ADHD’. The sessions were so powerful that they unleashed an avalanche of information and knowledge derived from my personal experience and intensive research over the previous 20 years, and culminated in […]
‘Ramblings (about poems)’ by Paul Luke.
In 2019, my daughter and I were enjoying a beer in a bar near her flat in Berlin. I was prattling on about poetry, W.B. Yeats, I think. She then asked me to recommend a book of poetry. I failed. She really wanted some sort of anthology and I knew of none, apart from the […]
‘Moishe’s Story’ by Martin Younger blog
This is my first ever blog – never mind self-publishing! It’s easy to self-publish; all you have to do is go online, pick a program, upload your raw material, and then you’ve got your book! The reality is different; I had CDs that my Father recorded – but wait a minute – they’ve got to […]
‘Electrodynamic Waves’ by Brian Whittaker
This is my first privately published book. Previously as a career scientist I authored or co-authored many scientific papers that were published in leading science journals, or published in the form of unclassified internal reports available from H.M. Stationary Office. I also contributed to two textbooks. The publication process was very easy, I merely handed […]
‘Imagining Eden’ Blog Post by Adrian Bean
One sunny day in 2014 I was planting some daffodil bulbs at the unmarked grave of God’s granddaughter Dilys, when I decided to take a friend’s advice: write about the strange world that the unfortunate woman had lived in a century before …but how? Her world had been that of the Panacea Society, a mostly […]
‘They Slipped Away’ blog post by Sue Deans
Recently I realised a dream I have had since childhood – to be a writer. With the help of SPP I produced a small volume of poems entitled “They Slipped Away”. Most of the poems were written in the last 20 years, while a few date back to the 90s. They cover many topics, from […]
