Publish With W&BArts

We are excited to offer members and supporters the chance to help publish a new book about a subject we can confidently assume you are interested in – the cultural history of the Waveney and Blyth valleys.

Borderlines is written; its 12 chapters exist. And they are from the pen of a prolific local author and publisher. In 1996 Peter Tolhurst launched Black Dog Books in Bungay and published 32 books over the next 25 years. There's fiction and non-fiction, but all with a regional slant. They include titles by other authors like Ronald Blythe, Elspeth Barker, Ian Collins, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Robert Jellicoe.

More recently Peter has had two of his own published by Norwich's Book Hive imprint, Propolis Books. Smiling at the Storm: East Anglian Folk Arts and Smiling at the Storm: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore: they're on bookshop shelves currently.

Borderlines is ready to be next. And Peter is giving us the  opportunity to launch it. So we are crowdfunding its print costs. We're not seeking investors (although we wouldn’t turn them away) just readers prepared to order in advance. By committing now to buying it for £17 you will secure a copy of this 235-page, colour illustrated book. With your support it will published by Christmas, and in bookshops for £22.

So what’s in it? Here are the Contents, the Introduction and an extract from Chapter 3 to help you decide if you want to get involved.