Robin Porecky's title 'A Pathless Land' has been longlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award!

Updates will be posted on our website shortly.

Jane Burdiak will be signing copies of her book on 31st October 2009 at Waterstones, Milton Keynes, between 11am and 3pm.

Aidian J Murphy will be holding his book launch on Friday 30th October at The Killarney Bookshop Limited, 32 Main Street, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland

Lola Evans will be signing copies of her book at the British Bookshop Weihburggasse 24 A-1010 Innere Stadt, Wien (Vienna) on November 19th, 2009 from 7.00PM to 8.30PM

Joy Mawby upcoming events:
24th October 2009 - Book signing at Waterstones in Llandudno
4th November 2009 - Talk and Reading at group in Wrexham, North Wales
11th January 2010 - Talk and reading at local rotary club
20th September 2010 - Talk and reading at local ladies club

Thank you to everyone who entered the April competitions and congratulations to the winners. If you weren’t lucky this time, why not try your hand at one of our three new competitions. This month there are signed copies of ‘A Pathless Land’ by Robin Porecky, ‘Black Skin White Skin’ by Lola Evans and ‘Cassie’ by W.L. Barrie.

Keep an eye out in the Lancashire Evening Post for an article about Michael Goudling, author of ‘Legacy of the Sphinx’. Goulding’s debut novel has recently been voted Best Read by the listeners to the Volts Arts radio show.

Author of 'Cassie', W. L. Barrie, will be signing books in the Dundee branch of Borders on May 14th.

This month’s competitions are coming to an end. Enter before the 30th April to be in with a chance of winning signed copies of Legacy of the Sphinx by Michael Goudling, Fecundity! by Meg Plummer and All in a Lifetime by Leonard Protheroe.

Winners will be announced on Monday, so be sure to check back then to see if you’re one of the lucky competitors, and to take a look at our three new competitions.

Susan Morris will be appearing on BBC Radio Solent on Thursday 30th April, talking about the release of her book ‘Naked Justice’.

Anson Hunter, alternative archaeologist and main character of 'The Smiting Texts', will be back in late 2009 / early 2010 in 'The Armageddon Glyphs' by Roy Lester Pond.

Win Signed copies of Michael Goulding's Legacy Of The Sphinx, Meg Plummer's Fecundity and Leonard Protheroe's All in a Lifetime.

See our COMPETITION page for details.

Mary Holmes is to appear on BBC1's 'Missing Live' on March 27th at 9.15am.


If you would like to meet Mary then she will be signing copies of her book at Waterstones in Chesterfield on Saturday, April 4th.

Margret Lawrence was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol on March 18th, talking about her efforts to raise £1 million for Bristol Royal Infirmary

Eileen Thornton will be at Borders in Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh on March 21st from 12 noon

Jane Burdiak will be giving an informal talk at her book launch in Newport Pagnell Library on Tuesday 24th March at 6.30pm. She will be pleased to sign copies of Patchwork that have already been purchased.

D. B. Scott author of 'The Chosen' will be holding a book signing at the Dundee branch of Borders on March 30th at 7pm

"This is Somerset" prints an article about Margaret Lawrence's ambitious plans to raise 1 Million from sales of her Autobiography.
Click here to read more.

Eileen Thornton will be holding another book signing at Borders, Team Valley on 14th March 2009.

Margaret Lawrence is a remarkable woman – a great-grandmother in her eighties, Margaret has technically died three times. She credits her longevity to the dedicated staff at Bristol Royal Infirmary. Now, Margaret is trying to raise money for the hospital, in order to give others the chance to lead lives as incredible as her own. To find out more, please click here.

Listen to Volt Radio's interview with Peter Bishop about his latest book "Cultural Fugitive" as heard on the Volts Artz radio programme.

Keep an eye out in the Daily Mail’s Femail section for an interview with Austin and Macauley author, Mary Holmes. Mary’s heart-warming autobiography, ‘Being You’, tells of her surprise at discovering she was separated from her twin sister at birth, then her bitter disappointment when all contact with her sister is forbidden. With forewords from Nancy L. Segal, Ph. D. and Professor Thomas J Bouchard, Jr, Mary Holmes tells her remarkable tale with humour and humility - this book is not only a fascinating insight into identical twins but also a touching story about enduring love, and a family reunited.

Eileen Thornton, author of "The Trojan Project", will be signing copies of her book on 29th November 2008 from 1PM at the Team Valley Retail Park branch of Borders Books.

At this time when the Large Hadron Collider has just been activated, it is appropriate to consider Leonard Protheroe's examination concerning the essential issue of the creation of the universe and to evaluate his own substantiated prophesies for the future. Stephen Hawkins has told us recently that there was only ever a one per cent chance that this tiny version of the big bang would lead to the world's destruction, so it is obviously time to consider, before it is too late, the latest ideas that Protheroe's theory encompases.

The Author discusses such essential areas of interest as the impact of extra-terrestrial events, and the many and various factors affecting our environment on this planet. He highlights those which we are currently experiencing and which may well have the potential to devastate our world and all on it, man and beast. He goes on to give us hope by posing an answer to the severe and growing problems. Being entirely relevant to our way of life, and indeed to any life, he discusses the possibilities of halting the apparent destruction; some salient points that he raises also show a way to reverse the effects of our current consumption of the Earth's precious resources before man and his way of life become extinct.
This is a deeply reflective and important book on the subject.

H Head PhD

Comments From The Author

"Can the remarkable coincidence of switching on of the Large Hadron Collider and the publication of my book, on the very same day, be attributable to divine intervention, or the law of random selection? Whatever force arranged such a fortuitous junction of events, the fact is the book prophesises an eventual conclusion which the Large Hadron Collider is now trying to prove."

Chris Joseph will be signing copies of his book "Manicdotes" at Borders, Teeside Retail Park on 7th December.

He has also been featured in the Evening Gazette, to read the article, please click here.

He was also interview live on BBC Tees radio on Tuesday 26th August. To listen to the interview, please click here. Once you've clicked on to it, skip approximately an hour to hear the interview.

Below is a picture from Eileen Thornton's second book launch on 26th July at Latimer Books in Kelso:

Austin & Macauley Publishers Limited are proud to announce that we shall shortly be publishing the novel by HIH Prince Selim Djem entitled

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOUL

The name of the Ottoman Empire has resounded throughout history. Never before has such rich imagery been captured by a writer who is the rightful heir of this 700 years’ ruling dynasty. HIH Prince Selim Djem is a direct descendant of a line of emperors. In 1924, while the Ottoman Empire was assailed on all sides, literally crumbling to pieces, Mustapha Kemal, a trusted Ottoman officer, overthrew the emperor and exiled the Ottoman family. Selim’s father, HIH Prince Burhaneddin Djem, remembers how soldiers came to drive his family from their palace and placed them on the Orient Express to be exiled. They found however that they were to be stopped in Bulgaria and made to continue on foot through the snow to the next town. (Please also see Prince Selim’s website for the full story at www.ottoman.li.)

Prince Selim himself lived for many years in the United States and Europe and has used his extensive knowledge and research to create a book of fiction.

‘The Dark Side Of The Soul’ is an imaginative work – thrilling from the beginning and will appeal to anyone with an interest in fantasy fiction and also to those who wish to know more of philosophy and metaphysics.

The characters are lively, believable and the reader can identify with each one. It is obviously the author’s intention to invoke a great wealth of interest in this.

“Three years ago, I began writing an essay on the difference between Determinism and Teleology in a 4 dimension world. I ended up with this novel. It happened against my will. Taking a life of its own, it grew out my pen. I had never imagined that I would end up with a novel that unravels the mystery of incarnation and reveals the secret purpose of Humankind.”