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| A Christmas Gift from us! Purchase any Sundial book and we'll include a free copy of CHRISTMAS LORE AND LEGEND by Llewelyn Powys with your order |
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 CONTENTS: The First Fall of Snow ~ The Spirit of the Season ~ A Childhood Christmas ~ The First Christmas Tree ~ Merry Is the Word ~ Mistletoe and Fir ~ The Month of December ~ Charity and Christmas Ballads ~ A Christmas Mystery ~ Town and Country ~ Our Merry Ancestors ~ Evergreens and Corn Sheaves ~ Ships and Stockings ~ The Wassail Bowl and New Year Customs |
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| Rich
in imagery and anecdote, woven through with local lore and
personal reminiscence, these Yuletide essays bring vividly alive the
customs
and characters, the sounds and tastes, of earlier generations, and are
informed
by the lively curiosity and deep nostalgia that typify Powys’s best
work. They
encapsulate, too, his unerring vision of humanistic values and the
delight in
the pleasures and comfort of good fellowship that Powys so greatly
prized. |
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Timperley
Woodforde
Wintle
Crompton
Manhood
Q FOR MURDER
by Sheila Rainey
NARRATIVES OF THE NUMINOUS
by Katharine Tynan
LOST AND FOUND
by Catherine Lord
PULLED DOWN
by Phyllis Paul
PATCHIN PLACE
by Ray Crozier
The Discovery of
by Tim BLANCHARD
Launched at The Mere Literary Festival
A few signed copies available
Nineteen stories
by Adrienne HOWELL
And
Other Stories
by H. A. MANHOOD
with an
Introduction by
“My greatest personal discovery since Lovecraft and Aickman.”
Twenty Supernatural Tales
by
CHRISTOPHER WOODFORDE
with a Preface by
Giles Woodforde
| 'Stories that are strange, fantastical — and utterly engrossing' |
Two of Sundial’s supernatural titles were
reviewed by Michael
Dirda
in THE WASHINGTON POST
'Until From Another World and Other Ghost Stories (Sundial Press), Timperley’s work could only be found in scattered anthologies, even though Roald Dahl chose two of her ghostly tales as being among the 14 best in English. Read “Harry”— about a little girl’s seemingly imaginary playmate — to see how terrific Timperley is.'
Rosemary Timperley FROM ANOTHER WORLD And Other Ghost Stories jacket
Price: £19.50
| Hardback
| ISBN-13: 978-1-908274-28-1| Dimensions: 210 × 148 mm | 294pp
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Rosemary Timperley published over sixty
novels and
successfully authored radio and television scripts for broadcast and
dramatisation. She also contributed several hundred short stories to
magazines
such as Reveille and the London Mystery Selection while
numerous others
regularly featured in the Evening
Standard and the London
Evening News.
Eloquent in a range of genres, a recurring theme in Timperley’s work is the supernatural which she employed deftly and explored imaginatively. Increasingly, her ghost stories appeared in various anthologies eventually leading to her being invited to edit several volumes of the Ghost Book series. Long overdue and keenly anticipated, this is surprisingly the first single volume anthology of Timperley’s supernatural short stories to be published. |
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| Pages from the bound proof copy
of FROM ANOTHER WORLD. |
The first copies relaesed from
their box and onto the shelf for despatch. reviewed. |
Pages from the bound proof copy
of FROM ANOTHER WORLD. |
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Review
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Richmal
Crompton (1890-1969)
has always been best known for many entertaining stories about the
mischievous schoolboy
William Brown, widely recognised as one of the most popular fictional
characters in English literature. Many of
her fifty books for
adults (forty-one novels and nine short story collections) have been
unjustly neglected
in recent years, none more so than MIST (1928), her only collection of
thirteen
occult tales and ghost stories, always a very rare book and virtually
unobtainable for decades. The author had a life-long
interest in the supernatural, mysticism and reincarnation, which are
all
reflected in these memorable tales, now reprinted for the first time
since
their original publication. |
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Crompton seems to have felt her William stories to have been potboilers – boiling 12 million copies in the UK alone – and preferred to be judged by her books for adults. These included THE HOUSE, a novel about a haunted mansion, and a collection of ghost stories called MIST which went through a single edition in 1929 and has become impossibly rare on the second-hand market. Now the small Sundial Press . . . is bringing it back to life (Mist and Other Ghost Stories). — The Daily Telegraph " . . . a welcome reminder of the golden age of the ghost story." — Peter Bell in A Ghostly Company (Newsletter 52) Read the review here If the content appears over-familiar in 2015, derivative they are not. . . . Those presuming her out-of-date should take a second look. — The Pan Review Mist and other stories (1928) by Richmal Crompton . . . was published last year in a nice (limited) edition by Sundial Press, in a series called Sundial Supernatural. I’ve been aware of this collection for many years, but it was virtually unobtainable – so this reprint is very welcome. — Stuck in a Book (2016) |
| “Here
many strange happenings are related and curious viewpoints expressed.
We find the old god Pan playing his part—and pipes—in modern
conditions, and we read of the rather vulgar young Miss who loved
Apollo. There is the mysterious cottage and the gypsy woman, both of
whom had long since passed, the one into ruins and the other into
oblivion; and many other stories of equally startling composition.” |
A.N.L. Munby
Richmal Crompton
W.J. Wintle
David Garnett
T.F. Powys
T.F. Powys
Alyse Gregory
Alyse Gregory
Alyse Gregory
Philippa Powys
Philippa Powys
Gamel Woolsey
WESSEX ESSAYS
Llewelyn Powys
WESSEX ESSAYS
Llewelyn Powys
YULETIDE ESSAYS
Llewelyn Powys
Elizabeth Myers
Paperback
Elizabeth Myers
A Traveller's Tale
FORREST REID
Littleton Powys
Mistress of Max Gate
Peter Tait
A Woman Betrayed
Peter Tait
Roger Norman
Roger Norman
Roger Norman
THE MYTHS OF TIME
Twilight Tales
by David McGOWAN
| We
are based in the beautiful historic town of Sherborne with a fine
abbey, two
castles plus annual music and literary festivals
. . . and two bookshops! [Above: Sherborne Abbey.] |
M. G. Rendell
© The Pitman Art Collection,
Sherborne Museum
End panel featuring Alan Turing - Sherbone schoolboy, computer scientist and Enigma code breaker.
The mural was mounted in June 2015.
05 February 2019. Sherborne-educated Alan Turing has been voted the greatest and most influential figure of the 20th Century in the BBC’s Icons series. Whilst he features on a mural in the town there really should be a statue to acknowledge his genius and far-reaching influence on all our lives.
Roger Norman, Peter Tait and David Tipping.
| THE
SHERBORNE SHORT STORY Competition |
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The competition is now closed. Thank you to all who entered |
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| SINGULAR VOICES | PAINTING WORDS
will be published soon in tandem with the launch of the SHERBORNE SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2020 (Full details will be announced in December) |
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| THE FOX'S
LAMENT And Other Stories by Adrienne Howell |
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| Launched at the Mere Lit Fest. |
GERALDINE And Other Stories
David Tipping
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-908274-47-2
DILEMMA, DANGER AND DRONES
A novel by David Forsyth
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
David Tipping
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