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We're supporting the UK Cadets World Championship in Plymouth this summer. Thank you Practical Boat Owner for your support. WE're hoping that individuals who would like to encourage young people sailing will make a donation (£10 suggested) and send a message of support which will will print in the souvenir programme

The UK Cadet Class World Championships need your help! - Practical Boat Owner The volunteer-run UK Cadet Class World Championships take place this summer, and support is being sought for the young sailors taking part

I've long admired Susan Price's unique, evocative Ghost Drum and am delighted that it's getting this re-recognition. If one can call a book 'timeless' without cliche, this is timeless. The rhythm of its language and quality of imagination is quite unique (except possibly in other areas of Susan Price's work) and like other great children's books it is NOT age-limited.

Beating the Ghost Drum Louder -- by Susan Price Last month, I wrote about how I finished the rewrites for Ghost Drum, back in 1986, on an Amstrad word-processor, and how it's now bein...

We're sponsoring this World Championship event by producing a souvenir programme for competitors to take home with them and remember the year that they came to sail in Plymouth. We hope other people and organisations will put small amounts of money towards this and sent messages of support to the young sailors which will be printed in the programme. Here Alice Thorogood explains what it takes to run an event like this and how she and her family got involved

Volunteers Running an International Event - River Deben Association By Alice Thorogood Credit: Corinne Whitehouse   The UK Cadet Class World Championships take place in Plymouth this summer. They are completely volunteer run. Alice Thorogood of Waldringfield Sailing Club explains what’s involved and how you can show your support … Continue reading →

As I struggle to peep over the corner of this large cheque I am actually feeling rather pleased at the success of the short film We Fought Them in Gunboats in raising funds for this worthwhile charity (book sales at the event raised an additional £200 for SSAFA). Thanks to all River Deben Association friends who attended.
Last week was the first showing of the film in a small venue -- Deben Yacht Club in Woodbridge where money was raised for GBR Cadets Next it goes to Ipswich Maritime Trust (Feb7) and Aldeburgh Literary Festival Aldeburgh Bookshop (March 3) so continues to be a really interesting project.

Artificially Intelligent or Intelligently Artificial? by Debbie Bennett (c) Mikko Paananen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons AI. Artificial Intelligence. I’m sure...

A massive thank you to at Golden Duck publishing for supporting our Worlds at Plymouth next summer!
Golden Duck Publishing is an independent publishing company specialising in nautical based books. LOTS of great ideas for Christmas presents on their website: www.golden-duck.co.uk/?sponsor=grbcadets

It's taken me a while but my Antarctic Sketchbook is finally here! There's an official launch of the book at the Scott Polar Research Institute on Saturday but it's live on my website now and early orders will be posted Friday. I'm so pleased with it in print, it takes me right back there! I hope you enjoy it too - and special thanks to Julia Jones at Golden Duck (UK) Ltd. for doing such an amazing job. https://claudiamyatt.co.uk/shop/books/

A bit later than usual this year - but the 2024 year planner has just gone off to print! Available soooon....

Leave Only Ripples - River Deben Association By Matt Lis “Leave only footprints. Take only memories” they say of walking in the countryside, for those of us who enjoy hours afloat I suppose that translates to “Leave only ripples” so how do we achieve that? When Julia … Continue reading →

After a bruising row with Kindle Direct Publishing I'm glad to announce that our Kindle edition of Ann Davison's classic My Ship is So Small is now available. There'll be a trade paper back by the end of this month https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Ship-Small-Ann-Davison-ebook/dp/B0CKTNPFZ5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B94RQ7DYOT3H&keywords=my+ship+is+so+small+ann+davison&qid=1697142625&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C45&sr=1-1

We're sad indeed that our good friend and find author Jan Needle has died. Thank you Andrew Rosthorn for this tribute

Obituary: Jan Needle, provocative children’s author and screenwriter The legacy of Jan Needle, author and screenwriter.

Loving the paper back of Uncommon Courage

His Own Little Ship -- Julia Jones His Own Little Ship FB Harnack for Yachting Monthly September saw the publication of Uncommon Courage: the Yachtsmen Volunteers or World W...

Researching for next book on women sailors. Discovering possible female designer Ms. Doyle. Wondering when term Ms. was first used. Just read this brilliant article by Dr Amy Erikson. Probably everyone else has read it already ... https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mistress-miss-mrs-or-ms-untangling-the-shifting-history-of-titles #:~:text=The%20introduction%20of%20Ms%20as,which%20man%20she%20belongs%20to.

Margery Allingham Centenary Celebration | Lakeside Theatre

We Fought Them in Gunboats: HMS Beehive Edition - The Naval Review By ROBERT HICHENS (ed: JULIA JONES)

Looking for to participating in Margery Allingham Centenary event at Essex university, Oct 27.
The centenary in question is the publication on Blackerchief Dick in 1923 when Marge was 19. The unusual circumstances of its composition - after a series of seances - should make one think quite deeply about the nature of creative writing
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2023/09/19/celebrating-one-hundred-years-of-margery-allingham #:~:text=2023%20marks%20the%20100th%20anniversary,with%20a%20strong%20Essex%20connection.

Celebrating one hundred years of Margery Allingham | Blog | University of Essex 2023 marks the 100th anniversary since the publication of the first novel by Margery Allingham, and this presents an opportunity to celebrate the life, career, and legacy of a writer with a strong Essex connection.

This trim little paperback makes me smile every time I see it -- I am of course utterly prejudiced (Julia)

Uncommon Courage - paperback edition — Golden Duck The paperback edition of Uncommon Courage is published today 14.9.2023. It comes with especial thanks to the relatives of former RNVSR members who have made contact since the hardback publication in March 2022. They have offered encouragement, additional information - and photos. In our opinion thes

I'd like to see this succeed
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Margery Allingham Celebration Evening A celebration of the life, career, and legacy of crime writer Margery Allingham

Goldenray was, with Peter Duck, the esteemed co-founder of our publishing house. We mourn her passing but will NOT be changing our name.

Goodbye Goldenray An odd quirk in the human brain allows us to feel that the things we love are living, even when they are manufactured objects – like boats...

A shockingly swift death and a sad loss

In Memory of Karen Bush -- Susan Price Karen Bush KAREN BUSH (aka Madwhippet) was a founder member of Authors Electric and, indeed, edited and produced some collections of sho...

Recently summarised by The Guardian as "an enjoyable, incident-packed study of ageing, poverty and discrimination", Amanda Craig's The Three Graces is literary fiction at its most entertaining!

We're extremely excited to have Amanda back at Felixstowe Book Festival for 2023 to discuss this enchanting, suspenseful and original novel with Nicola Upson.

Book your tickets now at https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/amanda-craig-the-three-graces

I feel deeply excited about this book (I probably say that every time) it also feels like an east coast project that's not over yet

As True a Picture as Possible De-censoring, un-editing, dis-interring and resisting the temptation to airbrush Catherine Hichens with a portrait of her husband by Pete...

Looking forward to talking to Jim Ring (biographer of Childers) about Uncommon Courage at Sea Fever Festival in Wells (lovely place!) June 17th

I absolutely love Winkie Nixon's writing in Afloat. Do give yourself time to read this -- and not just for his appreciation of Nicolette Milnes-Walker When I Put Out to Sea https://afloat.ie/blogs/sailing-saturday-with-wm-nixon/item/58860-genuine-irish-women-sailors-just-get-on-with-it-without-making-a-fuss-and-seeking-patronising-support?fbclid=IwAR0y7CVt_Z-vbtiUgqJZRVtEN1xvzG1Xxeg7QLKuBb84I28VxcV8Xvu8Frw

Genuine Irish Women Sailors Just Get On With It, Without Making A Fuss And Seeking Patronising Support Frankly, the official attitudes and notions about women’s sailing are woefully out of date

We're looking forward to this. Honoured to be Claudia's publishers

On the final stages of writing 'Antarctic Sketchbook' and scanning all the pages of my sketchbooks. The plan is to have it published in the summer, hoorah! .

A date for the diary if you're within reach of Dartmouth. Proceeds from this talk go to The Flavel Arts Centre and Dart RNLI Lifeboat