It has been a real pleasure for us here at Chandler Book Design to be involved in this project, Catherine has been a client with us for over a year now and we have help to publish 3 titles for her, The Golden Acorn, Glasruhen Gate and Hawke and Co.

The oragnisers of the Brit Writers awards where very impressed with Catherine and you can read what they said from this link: http://debialper.blogspot.com.

Well done Catherine, an award very well deserved.

From us all at Chandler Book design.

This is the definitive book on old Gypsy Wagons, telling the story of wagon time, chapters on Bill Wright, Sam Dunton, Thomas Tong, Fred Hill, George Orton and other notable builders, photographs that have never been seen before of the people that built them, people that used them and most of the surviving wagons still in existence today.

There is also a chapter on a full restoration of a 1914 Dunton Reading showing step by step photos of each stage.Two beautiful chapters called Old Days Old Ways and Historical Background with untold photographic stories of a bygone age.

Short History of Silver Cross

Silver Cross is Britain’s oldest pram company, making prams and pushchairs for children since 1877. The company is based in Leeds, Yorkshire where the very first Silver Cross pram was produced by William Wilson – a postman who started his own business making post carts and perambulators.

The Victorian era is when the pram first came into popular use. Original prams were based on the same designs as full-sized carriages and were originally pulled by dogs or ponies. Wealthy families commissioned their carriage makers to make smaller vehicles for their babies and owning a pram was soon seen as a status symbol. Queen Victoria herself was famous for using prams and there was even a pram named after her that remained one of the most popular models for over fifty years.

In the 1920s the company sealed its reputation as a maker of quality prams when they produced a baby carriage for the royal family. The name became synonymous with quality and rich parents strived to buy the latest model of Silver Cross pram for their children.

The brand continued to strengthen with new models produced every year and became somewhat of a fashion statement in the 60s for trendy mothers. During this time the company also extended their range into highchairs and other nursery furniture.

In the 60s the company also started to produce miniature versions of their full-size prams for dolls. Children could now own their very own doll’s pram just like mother’s!

As technology improved, the designs of Silver Cross prams evolved to meet the needs of modern parents. Prams produced and sold today are lightweight and flexible and there are a range of models to suit every mother – twin prams, jogging prams, you name it – Silver Cross continues to be one of the most popular producers of prams in the UK.

Jack George Edmunson has been in touch with Chandler Book Design to express his delight at the sensational success of his book, The Sun Sharer. Jack’s book has been an instant hit in its first month of release with the author already in the process of ordering a reprint. The combination of a stunning cover, an intriguing read and a cleverly orchestrated marketing campaign has seen The Sun Sharer shift more than 250 copies in the first month of release. Let us not forgot that this is a self-published book being marketed and distributed by the books author.
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Chandler Book Design are a collection of trained Graphic Designers, yes we design books but we also produce clever creative concepts and masterful marketing material. Our web site is in the process of being re-developed to advertise this service to a more open market. Jack George Edmunson had a large selection of material created by Chandler Book Design. He had a logo designed, a business card created, postcards, leaflets, posters and adverts designed in the style of his book.

The Sun Sharer is available now from the Foyles Bookseller

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Conversations With My Father is a book of discovery, of realising a long- forgotten life, disregarded and shrouded in pain and anger. Part biography, part memoir and part social history, fundamentally, it is concerned with questions.

The events of childhood, of war-time, and of the painful adjustments to Civvy Street, were so long ago, so irrelevant, half-stories and legends lay hidden in an enigmatic black and white portrait. Sixty years later, the same, by now old man, dies reflecting dismissively on a seemingly unadorned life.

Conversations with my father is available at www.flywritepublishing.com or by mail from Flywrite Publishing, Colchester Business Centre, Hawkins Road, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom, CO2 8JX

Price £10.99 including postage and packing.

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Pins by Christine Todd

Synopsis by Christine Todd

Molly Makepeace Jamison never expects to dabble in Voodoo. But when she discovers that her husband Bob has been stealing away her advertising agency while cavorting with his mistress of many years, she has good reason to adorn his effigy with a few sharp pins. After all, venting a little righteous anger can’t hurt anyone.

But Molly inadvertently taps into something deep and mysterious, and it produces shocking results. When Detective Jonathan Wilson lands on her doorstep with a list of pointed questions, Molly envisions the inside of a prison cell and the bed-lined wards of mental institutions.

She knows she has to save herself. Yet as her new choices produce more highs and lows than Chicago’s weather, she worries that her Voodoo dalliance has taken on a life of its own…

“Pins is a beautifully written jewel of a novel that has us
rooting for naïve protagonist Molly Makepeace Jamison from the get-go …
a great, uplifting read.”

Jerry Cleaver, Immediate Fiction

“Witty, insightful, and often poetic, Pins is a highly original story about becoming. It grabbed me from the start and stayed with me long after I finished.”

Pamala Stanton, Screentrade Magazine

Sally Zigmond, Hope Against Hope

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Chandler Book Design’s latest release, available now is Mike Buchanan’s ‘Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for right-minded people‘.