Author: Vikki Powles

Spring – Limited Edition of 200

A new collaboration between poet Kevin Crossley-Holland and artist Rosamond Ulph invites readers to pause, reflect, and delight in the wonder of words and the turning of the year.

A celebration of the word, and of the season when ‘everything seems miraculous’, Spring is an exquisitely produced limited edition of 200 copies, each hand numbered and signed.

Light-hearted verses by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Illustrations by Rosamond Ulph.

Printed in Great Britain by Peter Newble, this finely crafted book is beautifully typeset in 16- on 21-point ITC Golden Cockerel. Its pages have been produced on 150gsm Munken Design Pure Rough Cream paper, supplied by Denmaur Independent Papers of Sittingbourne, Kent, and hand-bound by Essex Bookbinders.

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet, translator, librettist and novelist for children. His Collected Poems will be published later this year.

Rosamond Ulph is a painter, printmaker, calligrapher and botanical illustrator. Her work has been hung at the Royal Academy summer exhibition.

Order at www.kevincrossley-holland.com/shop

Kata and Tor

Published by Walker Books, Kata and Tor is a tale of star-crossed young love set against the backdrop of the Viking invasion of York, from a master storyteller.

Tor is the youngest son of Harald Hardrada, King of Norway and leader of the Viking fleet, whose countless victories have been woven into song, his prowess the stuff of legend.

Kata knows little of her parents, but her heart yearns for something beyond the small world of her Anglo-Saxon village south of the great city of York.

When Tor is sent to scout ahead of the Viking fleet after their invasion of Scarborough, he relies on his charm and his guile to learn the lie of the land and the location of the regional earls’ forces, ready to report back to his father. Soon, however, he meets Kata, a caring and capable young woman whose fierce nature sets Tor’s heart alight.

But these are troubled times. Mistrust and rumours ripple through the land: the mighty Hardrada is coming and help is far from hand. As the eve of battle draws closer, Kata and Tor must question to whom their loyalty lies: heart or home?