The Kates Hill Press is continually working on projects which will eventually lead to full publication.
S.G. GREY
THE KINGSTOWN AGENDA
Already a successful local author with Cold Snap on Snow Hill and From
Somewhere Out of Here under his belt the Kates Hill Press is set to publish his
latest espionage thriller:-
A call to an address that only a very few people
in the Department had any knowledge of.
The current password correctly given.
The brief details of an ‘incident’, and one corpse.
A series of orders given…
All that from a surprising source.
And Alex Smith’s tour as the Senior Duty Officer on the graveyard shift had
suddenly been extended into challenging, murky, and very dangerous territory...
Due out Autumn 2008
CAROL HATHORNE
ONLY SIXTEEN
A full length novel charting the lives of three Tipton teenagers in their first
year at work. A wonderful take on the attitudes and way of life in a
working class community of the 1950s.
SUE HULSE
The Kates Hill Press has agreed to publish a collection
of Sue's short stories. Material yet to be received.
Update, March 2007. Sue's collection will centre on her life changing
experience during childhood when she first visited her father's family in Poland
in 1963. holiday
which brought new beginnings, confirmation of my identity. This new
experience worked as a catalyst, which brought to life my new family,
traditions, culture, history and the wonderful differences of humankind.
This collection hopes to give life that time a personal journey, a growing
stage, a questioning stage, and a somewhat unique experience.
BARRY MORRIS & GREG STOKES
MURDER - A GUIDED TOUR FOR HELPERS
In the 1990s Greg and Barry ran a training programme for Victim Support
volunteers working with people bereaved by homicide. They are in the
process of converting that programme to booklet form.
CAROL MIDWOOD
EDNA & ARTHUR
VOLUME TWO
Carol has written many more Edna & Arthur poems. A second volume will
appear as and when the collection is complete.
POCKETFUL OF MEMORIES
Tossie Patrick's booklet A Pocketful of
Memories--Blackheath was always meant to be the first in a series. Irene Davies'
Rowley was the second, and Julia Wareing's Acock's Green the third. It is hoped that many areas of the west midlands will have their own pocketful of memories booklets as time goes on. The format is text complemented by a few. drawings or photographs rather than a shed load of photographs with a sentence under each.
Anyone with written reminiscences of their area is invited to send them to us at 126 Watsons Green Road , Dudley, DY2 7LG, for consideration.
The following are in the pipeline.
BLOXWICH (RECALLING
BLACK COUNTRY YESTERDAYS) by Sam Massey
First published many years ago by the Daily Mail, Sam is seeking to get the work
back into print. Copy of original received, to be read and considered.
BILLY SPAKEMON
ECHOES OF FOYAN
Billy Spakemon has been working on the story of how his
Italian neighbours moved to the Black Country. He conducted hours of
interviews with Mick and his father Guido and wrote as he went along.
Sadly, Guido passed away last month but the project is to continue.
Indeed, it has generated great interest in Guido's home village in Italy.
Billy and Greg are now discussing the possibility of bringing the book out in
Italian as well as English. Several sections of the book now complete.
Due Out Autumn 2008
GREG STOKES
BRIERLEY HILLS COP
Brierley Hills Cop, the sequel to A Pack of Saftness is nearing
completion. Greg Stokes is now on the last chapter. The book is set
in the fictitious Black Country Republic and follows the head of homicide of the
BCPD Riffy H McDonald as seeks to discover the real reason that a new theme park
is being developed. Should be available later this year.
Due Out Autumn 2008
AMERICAN TOILET TISSUE & SCHRODINGER'S PUSSY
A collection of the comedy writings of Greg Stokes, many of which he performs at
the Lamp and other venues to great acclaim. Includes the Arsewipe stories
featuring his archetypal Black Country characters Les and Sheila. Several
stories still to type up. Update Sept 2007, All stories typed.
INVISIBLE
TUESDAY
22nd April 1986…
As the body of Doug Stokes is being identified by his son at Russells Hall
Hospital in Dudley, at the North Central Hospital in New York City, Salvador
Agron passes peacefully away.
Doug had been murdered in the aftermath of the bombing of Libya by US planes
only a week before. His story had
already been told as that of an innocent man struck down by a crazed knifeman
running amok, his death would remain Invisible.
In his youth, Salvador Agron had been a crazed knifeman who had killed two boys
in a Hell’s Kitchen playground in 1959 and entered the mythology of the
world’s greatest city as The Capeman. His
notoriety kept him in the headlines while the story of his victims, Robert Young
and Anthony Krzezinski would remain Invisible.
INVISIBLE tells how stories are told, which stories are told and why, weaving the tales of Invisible victims through the decades which have brought about a society in which we are told to wage a perpetual and unwinnable War On Terror, visited upon us by unseen enemies, while in our own cities generations of our children are born into ghettoes where killing each other is the norm.
INVISIBLE takes the reader from the jungles of
Burma in world War Two to the streets of 1950s New York beset by gang violence,
from a will to end the madness to the politics of revenge, from the cockpit of
the bombers and the War On Terror to the streets of modern day Birmingham
England and modern day madness, child on child violence...
LOUISE MARY STOKES
FAERIE DUST
Louise's first full length novel charts the life of Lilac Rainbow as it unfolds
after she doesn't return home after a residential course. She is guided by her
faeries in her struggle to be herself, rather than the person other would have
her be, the whole journey culminating in a dramatic ending.
Due Out Autumn 2008
JOHN SUMMERTON
TAKEN OVER
When Alistair Carne bets his mate that he can get himself admitted to a
psychiatric institution for a night, he has no idea how deep a hole he has dug
for himself when he goes ahead and tries to win his bet. This is an
absolutely hilarious novel.
Due Out Autumn 2008
KEITH WHITEHOUSE
The Kates Hill Press has agreed to publish a selection of Keith's poetry. Material yet to be received.