Hawkwood Books

22/08/2024

"And suddenly the room changed. At first, he wasn’t sure how. The white walls, the bed, the machines… They all looked the same, but something about them was different. He gasped as he realised what it was. They were no longer real! They were flat, two-dimensional – like paintings. He gripped Mom’s hand harder, trying to steady himself, feeling himself sinking, not down, but in; into her mind, her dream, growing closer and closer as the room ebbed away. Until suddenly he was engulfed, and a black sea rushed towards him, the roar of it a thousand thunders. It crashed him down and pulled him under. He drifted in the currents, in the darkness of the deep. A long way away he could hear the raging of the storm."

Witness to an inexplicable and frightening event, thirteen-year-old Evan Brown must face the unknown to save his family. Kenji is a breathless, wild ride of a read for Young Adults, immersive and emotionally compelling.

Kenji by L.J.M. Wadsworth
isbn: 978-1-7393239-8-1
RRP: £7.99
Published: September 2024

19/06/2024

Author visits sanctuary schools

17/06/2024

Land of Waves author Eugene O'Toole leaves Bristol on the first day of his Refugee Week tour of Sanctuary Schools across England to talk to students about child refugees. Grateful for the warm welcome of teachers and pupils at Cotham School and Bristol Cathedral Choir School. Looking forward to a busy week in Knowsley, Birmingham, Newcastle, Thornaby and London!

07/06/2024

Future Titles:

September 2024
Kenji by L.J.M.Wadsworth (YA)

November 2024
The Lady Upstairs by The Man Downstairs (Memoir)

January 2025
Partly Sane, Prose Merry and Rhyme: David Hogarth (Poetry)

These titles are available to order now from most high street and online bookshops.

08/05/2024

Our first book of poetry. Leechcraft is a wonderful collection by David Ward, aka David Greygoose, Carnegie nominated author of Brunt Boggart.

19/03/2024

David Hogarth at Blackpool Waterstones, Saturday March 16th 2024.

08/03/2024

Rise and Shine, Little Man. A charming, thoughtful and often hilarious memoir of a Blackpool childhood. Out now, available from all good bookshops and online. ISBN 978-1-7393239-7-4

22/11/2023

From Vic Peterson, author of The Berserkers, at recent convention, Kansas, USA:
Including created documents in fiction is a tried and true method of worldbuilding, but speculative fiction and horror have taken that a step further further to tell stories entirely through footnotes, art gallery exhibit descriptions, FAQs, bibliographies, articles, technical instructions, and more. What are the advantages and disadvantages of storyless storytelling?
Presenters: Kij Johnson, Amber Logan, Andrea Corbin, Glen Engle-Cox, Vic Peterson

02/10/2023

Our September title. A YA story about time travel, bullying and friendship.

20/06/2023

August title: The spiritual journey of Thalia in three acts: Body, Mind and Soul. New book by philosophic one-of-a-kind author Sarah Coyne M.A.

14/09/2021

Measuring The World

Our next title - a little gem, a unique gift, philosophy with a ruler. Read it once, remember it forever.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838024700
https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781838024703

Measuring The World: Philosophy with a ruler

30/04/2020

May Title : Hunger March by Cecily Riley
Sixth of The Secrets of a Dancing Girl novellas
978-1-908577-95-5 : paperback
978-1-908577-99-3 : epub
Easy to read novella set in 1930s London focusing on a woman ahead of her time.

05/03/2020

March Newsletter

Our March newsletter is now viewable on our website:
https://bit.ly/2PS1woO
If the link does not work, just copy and paste.

26/11/2019

Amy sat on the train wondering if she was completely loopy. Gran had told her a story that might have been totally made up, and yet here she was on a wild goose chase into Gran’s past.
There was just a flicker of life left from Gran’s many years on Earth, a glimpse of a story and that was all. The rest of her life was lost to history; it might well have never happened. She had had mum, that was a wonderful thing, but Mum was in trouble and all other embers from Gran’s past were hidden, lost in the mists of a few sparse days of absence. Amy thought she might just catch the final burning ember and light it up again, feeding it with a kind of oxygen, just as she was feeding herself now with hope.
Tollerton Mill, Spring 2020 : isbn 978-1-908577-93-1

16/11/2019

Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy

We are currently running a (friendly) competition for the cover design of a new book by Catherine Cowell with students in their final year of study at the University of Lincoln Illustration course. Very much looking forward to seeing their imaginative interpretations of this unusual story.

16/11/2019

Odd Socks

11/11/2019

HALE SHORE and LIGHTHOUSE

08/11/2019

Election Speak