December 2016

Arabella visits the Beautiful Garden again for more adventures

In her imagination Arabella glides through the trees of a mysterious forest. She smells the lush moist vegetation, listens to the twittering of the birds and hears the leaves rustling. The wind kisses her cheek and gently whispers, ‘Arabella, you must return to the Beautiful Garden!’

Father Sky grants her wish and she returns, facing new adventures and dangers – as a peahen!

Arabella and the Grandiose Peahens is the third book set in the ‘Beautiful Garden’, all sumptuously illustrated with Gloria Loring’s paintings. enjoy as a stand-alone book or as part of the wider adventures. This lovely book is aimed at older children.

ISBN: 978-1-911526-01-8

28 pages – staple bound

10 Full colour illustrations

RRP £12.00

To purchase a copy please email Gloria at gloria968@gmail.com 

Now also available in Amazon Kindle format

ISBN: 978-1-911526-50-6

Price: £2.11 (approx)

For more information about Leonora, Arabella, Gloria and her paintings, please visit her website:www.glorialoringsart.co.uk

A collection of photographs taken in Wicken, Cambridgeshire at the turn of the 20th century.

Anthony Day has a keen interest in the social history of his home village of Wicken, Cambridgeshire. Whilst looking for family photographs in the 1960s, he was presented with a collection of pictures taken by Emma Sophia Aspland at the turn of the 20th century. Over the years, he has added more images to his collection and shares them with us here.

Anthony was moved by Emma’s awareness of what was likely to disappear. She loved her thatched cottages and farmhouses, so many of which had vanished before Anthony was born. She loved portraiture and the ancient trades dependent on the fen. Emma appears to be shy and self-conscious, unlike the subjects she encouraged to be photographed.

Emma was the essential ‘Eye of Wicken’. Her legacy of views and people a blessing and a glimpse of village life as it was in 1900.

This book is sponsored by Colin Searle of Ivor Searle Ltd, Soham, in tribute to his father, Mr Ivor Searle. he was born in 1915, but died in 1956 aged just 40. he would have been 100 years old in 2015. Ivor Searle Limited was established in 1946 and, at the time of publication in 2016, has been trading for 70 years.

This is a hardback book with 73 black and white photographs 

Size: 21cm x 21cm

ISBN: 978-1-911526-00-1

Recommended Retail Price: £24

To purchase a copy, please email Colin Searle at colin@ivorsearle.co.uk