Amelia and her friend, Barbara served in the Women’s Land Army in WW2. They decide to visit Cornwall to relive those ideal days, but sadly, Barbara dies. Amelia travels to the West Country with Andrew, her chosen grandson, to scatter her friend’s ashes on a Cornish beach.
Although the loss of her son cannot be ignored in Ann Kelly’s work, it is more and more evident that she has coped with Nathan’s death through her writing. Death is present in ‘Because We Have Reached This Place’, but it is death correctly mourned: where the bereaved has found solace in the diversity and warmth of human experience: simple pleasures, the cycle of nature, humour, sex, memories, the security of feeling loved. Just scanning the title-page suggests the variety the reader can look forward to: ‘Reason for Eating Chocolate’, Gramosol’, ‘Men in Waders’, ‘Shark’s Teeth’, ‘Mah-Jong’, ‘Experiment on a Cat’, ‘Cockle Beds’.
Ann Kelley’s poetry adds to our knowledge of what it feels like to live; to be truly alive.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
15 x 21 cm 50 pages Paperback
Zillah inherits Gorsemoor Cottage in Zennor. She also inherits her grandma and her great grandmother’s diaries. Through reading the diaries she experiences the history of her family in farming, fishing and mining. The artists too brought both fame and shame to Cornish villages. Will Zillah allow the secrets she uncovers to change her life?
Born in London Marion Whybrow moved to St. Ives in1980 with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. This, her second novel, was short listed for the Halsgrove/Western Morning News Peninsular Prize in 2003.
To find an unfurnished flat in the 1950’s was almost impossible, but it happened for Lily and Danny. On moving into the house, they find the reality far from ideal. Their ambition is to buy a house. Can they escape the cat, other tenants, the landlady’s scheming and her husband’s murderous intents? A novel by Marion Whybrow.
Marion Whybrow was born in London. She moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1980, with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. She is now writing fiction. This is her third novel.
Sarah Nichols wrote her first poem whilst holidaying in St. Ives with her husband Peter, usually in September but also in the quieter times in March. It is a journey through St. Ives by day and night in sun and rain. The book contains eighteen poems and each is accompanied by the author’s own thoughts and inspirations.
The ’Bower Bird’ is the long- awaited sequel to ‘The Burying Beetle’, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel to a first-time writer of a book for young people. It follows the heat warming story of Gussie, an insightful twelve-year-old girl who has a fatal heart condition but an irrepressible zest for life.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
Twelve year old Gussie has just moved from London into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St. Ives. She has an irrepressible zest for life. She also has a life-threatening heart condition.
Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. Her life may be predestined to be short but not short on wonder, glee, the love of things as they really are….. Michael Bayley
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
Mary Quick’s lively and evocative story, lavishly illustrated in colour by Steve Martin traces a visiting family through three generations of seaside holidays in St. Ives. It begins with Christine and Ken’s arrival with their children Katherine and Mark on the little branch line steam train in the 1930s. The story then traces the delights of seaside holidays and how they change over the years.
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post Office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
A practical handbook of simple creative writing practices for teachers, healthcare professionals and new writers. It shows how the writer, Ann Kelly, turns patients into poets.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet. She is a best selling novelist of women’s erotica. Under the auspices of Poetry Remedy, (a project to get poetry into the healthcare system of Cornwall), she works with stroke rehabilitation and brain injury patients; hospice patients; people with severe degenerative disease; and mental health care clients, helping them to make poems. She has worked with medics, nurses counsellors and carers in England, Australia and Zimbabwe, lecturing and running poetry workshops.
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AMELIA
Amelia and her friend, Barbara served in the Women’s Land Army in WW2. They decide to visit Cornwall to relive those ideal days, but sadly, Barbara dies. Amelia travels to the West Country with Andrew, her chosen grandson, to scatter her friend’s ashes on a Cornish beach.
AUTHOR: Marion Whybrow
PUBLISHED BY: Beach Books 2010
Amelia remembers the American troops who lightened their lives. She marries Marco, an Italian prisoner of war but all is not perfect.
Years later, Amelia discovers a lost letter which makes her rethink her life. Will it be Italy, or England for her new found family?
13 x 20 cm 243 pages Paperback
BECAUSE WE HAVE REACHED THAT PLACE
Although the loss of her son cannot be ignored in Ann Kelly’s work, it is more and more evident that she has coped with Nathan’s death through her writing. Death is present in ‘Because We Have Reached This Place’, but it is death correctly mourned: where the bereaved has found solace in the diversity and warmth of human experience: simple pleasures, the cycle of nature, humour, sex, memories, the security of feeling loved. Just scanning the title-page suggests the variety the reader can look forward to: ‘Reason for Eating Chocolate’, Gramosol’, ‘Men in Waders’, ‘Shark’s Teeth’, ‘Mah-Jong’, ‘Experiment on a Cat’, ‘Cockle Beds’.
Ann Kelley’s poetry adds to our knowledge of what it feels like to live; to be truly alive.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
15 x 21 cm 50 pages Paperback
GORSEMOOR COTTAGE
Zillah inherits Gorsemoor Cottage in Zennor. She also inherits her grandma and her great grandmother’s diaries. Through reading the diaries she experiences the history of her family in farming, fishing and mining. The artists too brought both fame and shame to Cornish villages. Will Zillah allow the secrets she uncovers to change her life?
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Born in London Marion Whybrow moved to St. Ives in1980 with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. This, her second novel, was short listed for the Halsgrove/Western Morning News Peninsular Prize in 2003.
PUBLISHED BY Beach Books 2005
13 x 20 cm 322 pages Paperback
NARCISSUS ROAD
To find an unfurnished flat in the 1950’s was almost impossible, but it happened for Lily and Danny. On moving into the house, they find the reality far from ideal. Their ambition is to buy a house. Can they escape the cat, other tenants, the landlady’s scheming and her husband’s murderous intents? A novel by Marion Whybrow.
AUTHOR. Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow was born in London. She moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1980, with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. She is now writing fiction. This is her third novel.
PUBLISHED BY. Beach Books. 2007
13 x 20 cm 266 pages Paperback
POETICAL SKETCHES OF ST. IVES
Sarah Nichols wrote her first poem whilst holidaying in St. Ives with her husband Peter, usually in September but also in the quieter times in March. It is a journey through St. Ives by day and night in sun and rain. The book contains eighteen poems and each is accompanied by the author’s own thoughts and inspirations.
AUTHOR Sarah Nichols
PUBLISHED BY Hollyman Press 2004
15 x 21 cm 46 pages Paperback
THE BOWER BIRD
The ’Bower Bird’ is the long- awaited sequel to ‘The Burying Beetle’, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel to a first-time writer of a book for young people. It follows the heat warming story of Gussie, an insightful twelve-year-old girl who has a fatal heart condition but an irrepressible zest for life.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
14 x 21 cm 196 pages
THE BURYING BEETLE
Twelve year old Gussie has just moved from London into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St. Ives. She has an irrepressible zest for life. She also has a life-threatening heart condition.
Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. Her life may be predestined to be short but not short on wonder, glee, the love of things as they really are….. Michael Bayley
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
13 x 20 cm 192 pages Paperback
THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
Mary Quick’s lively and evocative story, lavishly illustrated in colour by Steve Martin traces a visiting family through three generations of seaside holidays in St. Ives. It begins with Christine and Ken’s arrival with their children Katherine and Mark on the little branch line steam train in the 1930s. The story then traces the delights of seaside holidays and how they change over the years.
AUTHOR Mary Quick illustrated by Steve Martin
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post Office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust 2006
29 x 25 cm 30 pages Paperback
THE POETRY REMEDY
A practical handbook of simple creative writing practices for teachers, healthcare professionals and new writers. It shows how the writer, Ann Kelly, turns patients into poets.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet. She is a best selling novelist of women’s erotica. Under the auspices of Poetry Remedy, (a project to get poetry into the healthcare system of Cornwall), she works with stroke rehabilitation and brain injury patients; hospice patients; people with severe degenerative disease; and mental health care clients, helping them to make poems. She has worked with medics, nurses counsellors and carers in England, Australia and Zimbabwe, lecturing and running poetry workshops.
PUBLISHED BY The Hypatia Trust & Patten Press
14 x 21 cm 144 pages Paperback