SILVER CROW
Silver Crow was founded in 2016.
An innovative addition to the world of publishing, it offers a guided middle way between traditional publishing and self-publishing.
Submissions are invited from members of Frome Writers’ Collective, who are notified of upcoming windows.
Our focus is general interest fiction and non-fiction for adults, and fiction for young adults and younger readers.
BOOKS
Flutter
Dianne Sangster
A delightful and insightful memoir about love, secret gambling, and recovery from addiction.
BUY HERE: £9.75
The story of the oddball, music-loving inhabitants of Crubscome village and their struggle to get to grips with the twenty-first century.
BUY HERE: £9.19
Ørma
Jac Forsyth
After eight months of televised war, a reality show based on the conflict is the only truth anyone cares about. But behind the show are some terrifying secrets.
BUY HERE: £10.39
The Tissue Veil
Brenda Bannister
A dual-narrative tale set in Stepney during both Edwardian and contemporary times. Living in the same house, a century apart, two young women, Emily and Aysha, struggle to assert their identities. Both ghost story and social commentary, this book offers intriguing and compulsive reading.
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No Ordinary Life
Ann Barron
No Ordinary Life, Ann Barron’s memoir of her extraordinary grandfather, describes his early travels in the Middle East, lumberjack adventures in Canada, service on the Western Front in WWI, followed by service in Palestine. A military man, churchman and diplomat, the momentous changes he witnessed, and in which he played a part, still resonate in the Middle East today.
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It Leaves Me the Same
Ed Green
Based on the true story of E.A. Green’s great uncle, It Leaves Me the Same explores a nineteen year old’s journey from his family farm in Somerset through the Somme battlefield during the Great War. After finding a diary and a bag full of letters written home from the front, the author retraced his great uncle’s route …
BUY HERE: £10.33
The Price of Silence
Nikki Copleston
When popular businesswoman Holly Macleod is found strangled, DI Jeff Lincoln is brought in. As he sifts through the details of her life, he uncovers one mystery after another. Lincoln and his team must find out who Holly really was and why she came to a Wiltshire market town to reinvent herself. Above all, who would want her dead?
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The Shame of Innocence
Nikki Copleston
A gripping detective novel set in the West Country: when two teenage girls are murdered DI Jeff Lincoln and his team must battle local corruption in a race to prevent a third killing. The Shame of Innocence boasts a flawed hero, a gritty narrative and all the twists you could wish for.
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The Promise of Salvation
Nikki Copleston
When a child’s bones are discovered in Wiltshire woodland twenty years after her disappearance, DI Jeff Lincoln needs to find out what happened to her.
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A Strange and Murderous Air
Nikki Copleston
A man is found shot dead and a woman has disappeared. DI Jeff Lincoln needs to fit the pieces of this puzzle together.
Dissenters
Liz Hutchinson
One family’s story in the 1660s, when Frome’s woollen industry brought wealth to a few, and poverty, starvation or the gallows to others.
BUY HERE: £10.95
Sigura
Elizabeth Hutchinson
Threatened by pirates and outlaws, the Aegean island of Mytilene is a dangerous place in the 15th century -the final years of the Byzantine Empire. Nabila, daughter of Andreas, the commander of Sigura, is desperate to see the world and seek her own destiny, but her father has other ideas …
BUY HERE: £7.99
The Last Dragon
Jesse Mack
While on holiday, Will builds a dragon in the sand – a dragon with attitude who appears in Will’s dreams each night and demands that he make him better and grander. In exchange, the dragon will take Will back in time to see real dinosaurs.
What can go wrong?
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£6.99
Strays and Relations
Dizzy Greenfield
Adopted at birth, Dizzy had always been keen to find her roots. Strays and Relations is an account of that search. The unusual personalities, situations and animals she encountered in the journey to find her family are vividly and humorously described.
A book which will both amuse readers and touch their hearts.
BUY HERE: £10.58
Echoes of Friendship
Wendy Worley
A Young Adult novel which interweaves the stirring story of Mac, a young Scottish soldier in the trenches of World War 1, and that of his great-grandson, Andy. Though 100 years apart, the stories have many similarities, both dealing with survival, challenge, and unlikely friendships.
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Zoe & the Very Grumpy Witch
Gill Ingram
Everyone says that Zoe is too sensible to imagine a witch – but they’re very wrong.
Savoy is grumpy, smelly and sneezy and not a witch you’d like to sit next to on a bus.
Zoe has no idea how to get rid of her – but she needs to try – fast.
£5.99
Zoe & the Ancient Egypt Adventure
Gill Ingram
There’s a new boy in class who tells unbelievable stories. Or are they?
Zoe’s about to find out.