New titles due from Chiselbury in the run-up to Christmas
London 14 November 2022. Chiselbury, the independent publisher is pleased to announce its line-up for the run-up to Christmas with the imminent publication of three new titles and two republications of long out of print works by James Leasor. The new books are available for pre-order, at a discount to list price, from the Chiselbury website.
A Soldier’s Wife is the second book by 96-year-old Margaret Ford – labelled in 2019 as the world’s oldest debit author, when Pan Macmillan published her best-selling ‘A Daughter's Choice: A True Story of Hardship, Heartache and Hope’. That book was described by the Daily Mail as “achingly poignant… intensely passionate”. A Soldier’s Wife tells the full story nine decades of change and challenge she has witnessed, with a marriage to a professional soldier stretching over six decades.
Ridgeway, by Nick Watts, is a political thriller set with a background of the run-up to a UK General Election. It involves a web of scheming, treachery and death, with a hero who has to battle against dark forces to discover the truth. It is long-time political consultant Nick Watts’ first novel.
Spanish Practice’, under the pen name of Richard Townsend, weaves together nearly half a century of observations by Rico, an Englishman married into an eccentric family who run a wine business in a left-behind corner of Spain. Through the interplay of rivalries, conflicts and vicissitudes Spanish Practices illuminates the idiosyncrasies of Spanish ways and exemplifies the travails of a society in the throes of wholesale transformation.
Chiselbury will also shortly be republishing two more of James Leasor’s works: The Serjeant-Major, the biography of the legendary R.S.M. Ronald Brittain M.B.E Coldstream Guards, the so-called loudest voice in the British Army and a household name in the 1950s; and Rats – the Story of a Dog Soldier, written under the pen name of ‘Max Halstock’, it chronicles the life of a terrier who adopted, and was adopted by, the British Army units serving in Crossmaglen, the centre of so-called ‘Bandit Country’ in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and who was awarded two medals for gallantry.
“We are very excited to publish three such diverse and outstanding new books in the coming weeks. Each and all would make great Christmas presents!” commented Stuart Leasor, Chiselbury’s publisher. He went on, “The Serjeant-Major has been Chiselbury’s most asked for title since we started the business and Ratswill have special memories for all who served in Northern Ireland. They both will also make ideal presents for any relative who served in the Armed Forces.”