The Kates Hill Press is continually working on projects which will eventually lead to full publication.
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.
GREG STOKES
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.
Out later this year.
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...