Nonsense and Fiction
brought to you in equal measures by Ravensquill
A small publisher of adult fiction and illustrated fiction for children ranging from the subtly educational through adventure to pure nonsense.
Can the Twins, Henry and Henrietta recover the brooch from the Great Raven before they are sent off to the charity shop? Follow the group on an illustrated adventure filled with nonsense and puzzles.
Katie tells her the story of this place: of a massacre in the name of religion, of imprisonment, rape, torture and murder. It is a story that comes alive in the telling, as its victims rise up in vengeance to engulf Kate and all around her...
- CURD THE LION BOOK REACHES 28,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! 7th February 2018How, you may ask?Because it has sold 19,000 in China and South Korea. The Chinese publisher has just renewed the contract for a further five years!It had sold £135,000-worth in the UK before the ‘dashing’* James Daunt put a spanner in the works by banning all-day signings in Waterstones - my forte - talking kids […]
- #SuicideAwareness. The Tale of Boy-who-was-Fish. 31st December 2016Here is my parabolic tale told in the style of a Just-so story on the ‘expunging’ of emotional vulnerability in men. It may not resonate with many, but I offer it for what it is worth.“The Tale of Boy-who-is-Fish”(a tale told somewhat in the style of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just-so’ stories by Alan Gilliland.)Boy-who-is-Fish is swimming, […]
- Selling my 1973 Holdsworth Equipe UPDATE £300 ONO 15th May 2016Sadly announcing today I am selling my 1973 Holdsworth Equipe, owned from new and bought from their Putney shop.My bike had a recent full service at J. E. James Cycles, Chesterfield, with parts replaced as listed below at a cost of over £200. It is now fully operational, but unfortunately I have discovered I can […]