Quartet author Venetia Welby has written a piece on life in the time of Covid-19 for pop-up blog A Garden Among Fires. You can read the full story here.

Venetia Welby is the author of Mother of Darkness. Get your copy of this extraordinary novel here today.

Gerald Jacobs writes about the Jewish community in Brixton in the 1950s and 1960s for The Jewish Chronicle. Read the article here and get your copy of Pomeranski here today.

James Hanratty writes a piece for Book Brunch on why he has brought his memoir up to date. Read the piece here and our Chairman’s piece on the article here. And then make sure you get your copy of the new paperback here!

The Stonyhurst Association on the new edition The Making of an Immigration Judge by James Hanratty. Read the piece here and get your copy of the book here.

The blog tour for Pomeranski by Gerald Jacobs starts today. The first stop is a Q&A on Linda’s Book Bag blog, which you can read here.  Get your copy of Pomeranski here today.

Looking for something to watch? A hole in your lockdown viewing schedule? We have exactly what you need!

LOCKDOWN from Sadie Hennessy on Vimeo.

Quartet author Val Hennessy has been busy… She has written a brilliant short story called LOCKDOWN. Acclaimed actor Simon Paisley Day reads it in this short film. Check it out

Wishing our Chairman Naim Attallah a very happy birthday. He is 89 years old today! Memories by Naim Attallah is available here now.

‘Pomeranski has the humour and dark undertow of Woody Allen’s romp, Small Time Crooks. Someone should send a copy of the book to Guy Ritchie. Through his memories of people and place, the author gives a sense of how Brick Lane and Brixton were almost like a village, set apart from the cosmopolitan centre of

‘Tell us about your latest novel, Pomeranski, and what inspired you to write it.
The principal characters and their actions are invented, so Pomeranski is not an autobiographical novel. However the atmosphere is not invented. The book is set in an actual place and time: Brixton in the 1950s and ’60s.

I was prompted to