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FREE DOWNLOAD THIS WEEKEND- HURRY

THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS is free to download this weekend, starting at about 8.00 pm Friday, 3rd August in UK (12.00am Pacific Time)

Author Julia Newsome will be at the London 2012 Olympics this weekend- see if you can catch her wearing her distinctive t-shirt.

SUNSHINE IN PENRITH: CARNIVAL IN CARLISLE

Today's drizzle and gloom contrasts strongly with yesterday's brightness. In Penrith, all was peace and sunshine as we sat in the wonderful Wordsworth Bookshop beside the church.

We had to leave Penrith long before the torch was due to arrive; when we got to Carlisle we found crowds and capers, and a bookshop with most of its window taken over by The Boy.

Fantastic display in a super independent bookshop- Bookends

An air of excitement built up until the torch came through with its many vehicles and razzmataz, but the human joy still shone through.

Julia with Gwenda Matthews, owner of Bookends in Carlisle

NEW VENUE TO MEET THE AUTHOR

 New Olympic Book: Meet the Author

"You don't get to the Olympics unless you're the best"

On the days the Olympic torch comes to Penrith, Carlisle, Wigton and Cockermouth, local author Julia Newsome will be meeting the public and signing copies of her recently released novel, The Boy with Two Heads.

The timetable now looks like this, with a possible further signing in Bookends Keswick if the weather is fine:

Wednesday June 20th:

12.00 Wordsworth Bookshop, St Andrew's Churchyard, Penrith

4.30  Bookends, Castle Street, Carlisle

Thursday June 21st

10.00 Fountain Gallery, High Street, Wigton

2.00 Beatford's Tearoom, Lowther Went, Cockermouth

(?4.00 Bookends, Keswick?)

OLYMPIC BOOK SIGNINGS AND NEW REVIEWS

In this year of the London Olympics, young and old alike are excited by the romance and the endeavour, the sweat and the tears of the greatest sporting event ever devised. With its themes of striving for excellence, self knowledge, and the conflict between family duty and self realisation it will appeal not just to young adults but to everyone who remembers what it is to be young and ambitious.

Perfectly timed for this summer's Games, Julia Newsome takes us back 2,400 years to the early Olympics. We follow young Themis in his struggle to get to the Olympics and triumph there. What is remarkable is the way in which ancient Greece and the Games themselves are brought to life in riveting detail. Themis's story is cleverly intertwined with that of modern-day Suzanne in her parallel efforts to reach the 2012 Olympics. I learnt more about Greece and the Greeks from this book than I did in two years of living there. This is a great tribute to the author's research and makes the book a gripping read. The cover proclaims 'You Don't Get to the Olympics unless You're the Best.'. You don't write a book like this unless you also are!

From a recent Amazon review by Philip Prowse

Cumbrian Author Julia Newsome will be signing copies of The Boy with Two Heads in Penrith, Carlisle and Wigton next week as part of the Olympic Torch celebrations.

Wednesday 20th June

• The Wordsworth Bookshop, Penrith 12.00 noon
• Bookends, Carlisle 4.30 pm

Thursday 21st June

• The Fountain Gallery, Wigton 10.am

A NEW PIECE BY KATHLEEN HERBERT

This is a little morsel- but a tasty one. A single, richly complex, chocolate; a perfectly formed truffle dish; a minute crystal glass of a rare ice-wine-

We are privileged to be the custodians of all Kathleen's literary papers, and are gradually trawling through to see what there is of general interest. This retelling of Guinevere's story is a little gem. Written at the end of the last century, you could say it embodies Kathleen's ideas about feminism, and the almost completely male perspectives handed down to us in legend and history.

 The Once and Future Queen is just a foretaste of riches yet to come.

Ironic cover image

The background image for the cover is based on this lovely pre-Raphaelite painting by John Collier: Queen Guinevere's maying.  Of course, what you will find inside is an altogether tougher Guinevere than this traditional image would suggest.

A PATH TO AUSTRALIA

I woke up this morning to another great book review, this time for Paths of Exile: it's on Smashwords here, but I print an extract below:

The author very cleverly paints a crisp, clear glimpse of an opaque period of Britain’s history. This is where historical fiction - the active, conjecturing mind of an author who is familiar with all the available facts of a certain period - does what no amount of history lessons can ever achieve: it brings an era to life.

This tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, revenge, escape and pursuit, in 7th century post-Roman, pre-Norman Britain (sometimes known as the early ‘Dark Ages’) also has just a smidgen of romance thrown in for good measure. The story is woven around some authentic historical characters (filled out to full living colour), including the main protagonist, along with some vivid entities from the author’s fertile imagination. With great attention to detail (the author is certainly au fait with this period); this is a beautifully crafted story.

T D McKinnon

I feel very proud to be associated with authors of such quality, and although our small family business cannot publish more than a handful of titles a year, these two recent reviews have convinced me that I am right to stick with historical novels of the very highest quality.

T D McKinnon is an Australian writer: his website is here Cheers TD- how about taking a look at other Trifolium Books titles? The Boy with Two Heads will be available on Kindle very soon, and for those of you who live a little nearer to Trifolium Books' heartland, Julia Newsome will be signing copies in Wigton, Penrith and Carlisle on 20th and 21st June- when the Olympic torch comes through those towns. Details of times and venues later.