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Hawthorn Press have published books since 1981, offering inspiring and practical ways to transform oneself, family, business and community.

Keep your children occupied this summer and learn how to make a bee-friendly house for these essential garden pollinator...
27/06/2024

Keep your children occupied this summer and learn how to make a bee-friendly house for these essential garden pollinators.
From our wonderful Making the Children's Year activity book.

19/06/2024

#2 TWO THINGS INTERSECT

Two things intersect in my mind these days. Amid all the distractions and clutter that life adds, it comes down to just these two. Firstly that the world is in really bad shape. You cannot look with clear eyes at the human race and its situation, and not be full of horror. The dim sense of “progress” that underpinned life during my earlier lifetime and yours too, has been stripped away.
Suffering is growing exponentially, and climate disaster has barely started to stalk the earth. It doesn’t get any more dire than this. It’s a horrible time for very many people, and I am not prepared to live a life that doesn’t somehow answer that. And I know you care too, dear reader which is why I am enlisting your time here. We have to link up around this almost cosmic scale of need.
So it is not a time for playing golf or going on lots of cruises, at least as the defining meaning of being old. The proper role of old people is to safeguard the world for the young. They support, counsel, and keep watch. They take their own lives and needs lightly because they are more concerned for the future after they are gone, than diversion and self-indulgence. And yet, in an odd balance, we have to be incredibly calm, full of love and appreciation of the world, keep our roots watered, so we can bring calm and joy to the picture, not anger and division.
And, then secondly, my own life is in its last chapter, and I will some time not too far away, be gone. That puts its own quality on every second, and should. It is defining, in a helpful way. It makes me want to “cut the crap”.
I don’t mind being gone, I love the idea of being a little stream that winds its way into the mighty ocean, home at last. But I am very very concerned with how to spend the time I still have. How to give courage to the people who will carry the same torch after we are gone. Hence, the Decade of Farewell.
When we say “fare well” we mean that literally - that we want our loved ones, and all small creatures, to fare well, have safe and happy lives, and we will do all we can to make that so. Even though we will die and never know if we have succeeded.
So that is the huge challenge. To have that question always there. What does the world need from me? (and by me. I mean, you, dear reader) (with your own unique mix of weakness and strength, talent and disability). Never knowing the answer in a finished way, but just always seeking it, fumbling along and seeing what might work. And at the same time, sitting in a place of peace, and joyful celebration of being alive now, so that we bring harmony and calm, not agitation or polarisation, to what we do. Rest when you need to rest. Accept that some things are best done slowly, and we don't know what will make the difference.
Ram Dass once said (of his work with grief and loss) - It’s so heavy that it’s light.
Theresa of Avila (I think) put it another way “All the way to heaven, is heaven”.
The situation is truly awful. Don't give in to panic. Don't indulge in despair. Breathe slow and deep, and you will get a sense from listening to your own insides, of how to proceed,so that you are on the side of life, when death, greed, and fear loom so close by. We wrote it on our SIEVX Memorial in Canberra all those year ago. Love is stronger than fear.
Love is a river, wade out into it and flow with it, and it will carry you.

19/06/2024

Tickets are now available for Making Marvellous Stories with Danyah Miller at Central Children's Library, on Saturday 29th June 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

15/05/2024

As two thirds of parents worry about what their children are eating, the Children's Food Campaign has launched Our Children, Our Future, a new parents' manifesto for government action on healthy children's food, calling for action in five key policy areas. 

In today’s fast-paced world, where processed foods dominate the market, baking bread at home offers a nutritious and wel...
24/04/2024

In today’s fast-paced world, where processed foods dominate the market, baking bread at home offers a nutritious and welcome alternative, using simple ingredients that nourish our bodies and souls. Available now Baking Real Bread -
https://www.hawthornpress.com/books/craft/baking-real-bread/

24/04/2024

Join us on 10 May for this inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.
Tickets from: Six Inches of Soil Film & Book Launch/Panel, Lansdown Hall, Stroud https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DDZO
See link below for a 4 minute introduction to the film:
https://vimeo.com/user16039450/review/923440180/72368358e7

17/04/2024

Please join the authors of 'Intelligent Hands' at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival on 7 May 2024 at 10am.

Ticket link via our bio or:
https://chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173650457

'If you are interested in applied creativity, skills, competencies, imagination, problem solving and cultural expression, get your hands on this book.’

Making is good for us. Using our hands benefits our cognitive development, improves our mental agility and can have a positive impact on our mental health, too. Making is implicated in managing fidgeting and poor behaviour in schools. Research has shown that even a small amount of creative activity can help to regulate behaviour, and improve executive functions.

'Intelligent Hands: Why making is a Skill for Life' investigates the cognitive benefits of craft in life-long learning and brings together existing research and information in an accessible format to make the case for working with our hands.

As we hurtle into the fourth industrial revolution, we risk losing the craft skills that make humans unique. This timely book asks what got us to this place and – more importantly – how we can change it.

Charlotte Abrahams is a writer, author, and an occasional curator, specialising in design and the applied arts.

Katy Bevan is an independent writer and educator with a specialism in craft running workshops in darning, crochet and knitting. She writes for textile and craft magazines such as Selvedge, is the founder of publishing company Quickthorn, and blogs at The Crafter, and is mostly to be found knitting.

17/04/2024

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Hawthorn Press have published books since 1981, offering inspiring and practical ways to transform oneself, family, business and community. We began with Who’s Bringing Them Up? TV and Child Development, followed shortly by Festivals, Family and Food.

After that, we just kept going, publishing titles that respond to our core values of helping to create a more creative, earthcaring and peaceful world. In this vein, we’ve published children’s books, creative parenting books, academic works, practical workbooks and more. The question we ask when considering a title is if its presence in the world will make the world a better place.

We are open to different ways of doing this. Some of our most popular books are our books on storytelling: we believe that this is vital to anyone wishing to create positive change in the world, as the stories that we tell inform our perceptions and therefore how we act. We also publish craft books, because making things yourself is both fun and empowering. And we continue to work with Springboard Consultancy as the publishers for two of their workbooks, Springboard and Navigator.

We are delighted to be still be here, independently publishing books for a more creative, earthcaring and peaceful world. We continue to be excited by our work, and to look for new ways of making the world a little better with each book. We hope that you enjoy our titles as much as we enjoy making them.