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A Step in the Right Direction – Walking Back to Happiness
“Succumb to Christine Palmer’s charm, spirit of adventure and huge sense of fun. I’m already shopping for my walking boots.” ~Susan Rae, Broadcaster
Walking Back to Happiness tells the funny and enlightening story of a woman who sets out to lose weight and ends up finding herself. In this memoir, Christine Palmer gives a guide to walking and to life in general through telling of her own experiences along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and her life off the trail.
Though her main experience with walking is a route from the East End of London to Selfridge’s, she decides that the Pilgrim way is the perfect method to once again fit into a silk Bellino top. However, along her journey she discovers that there is much more to walking than the exercise. These reflections manifest themselves in digressions that are just as fascinating as the journey itself, offering opinions on everything from perfect recipes for canned fish to the things that end a marriage. Her humour and witty observations about her fellow travellers and the history of the sites she visits make this an amusing and enlightening read. Watch out: you may find yourself wanting to make a pilgrimage too!
“This gorgeous children’s book is a must for any child’s first library – in both English and French. Vivid, exciting illustrations bring the thoughtful story alive – bound to be a favourite, much loved book.” J. Webb, Amazon
Sumptuous Sardine Snack
Next time you’re craving a snack that tastes of the sea but don’t have the luxury of acquiring fresh seafood, you could try this recipe from Christine Palmer’s Walking Back to Happiness.
Ingredients:
1 tin of Sardines
1 Avocado Pear
1 clove garlic
Salt
Drain the oil from the sardines and mash them with the avocado pear. Grate the garlic over the top and add salt to taste. Eat the result as a spread with carrot sticks if you’re feeling healthy and bread and butter if you’re feeling decadent.
To find out more about Walking Back to Happiness by Christine Palmer click here, or to order copies of either Walking Back to Happiness or Cowardy Cowardy Custard use our Google Checkout buttons below.
EASTER RECIPE – Roast Leg of Lamb
Easter is right around the corner and if you’re like many people, the ideal way to spend it is with your family and friends, enjoying a delicious meal. In our hectic lifestyles, we rarely have the time to enjoy a home cooked meal, making the holidays even more special. Taking the time to cook for your loved ones is a perfect way to show them how much they mean to you.
Why not try this delicious “slow cooked” recipe (click here for recipe card) from the award-winning Borough Market Cookbook: Meat & Fish for Roast Leg of Lamb with White Beans and Kale.
Enjoy! And please do tell us what you think of it. We shall be posting more recipes soon.
The Boy Who Biked the World
Tom really wants to be an explorer. When Tom’s head isn’t in the clouds it’s in an atlas. He follows adventurers not footballers and his schooldays are spent dreaming about travelling from Tibet to Timbuktu. One day a private wish blurted out loud started his freewheeling adventure:
“I’m going to cycle around the world.”
His classmates laughed. No one believed him, least of all his teacher.
“The mountains will be too high!” “The deserts too hot!”
Everyone shouted their reasons why his dream was impossible.
But it was a funny thing: the more people told him he couldn’t do it, the more Tom found himself wanting to prove them wrong.
Ride along with Tom as he overcomes his fears and sets off on the first part of his biggest ever adventure: to try to become the boy who biked the world.
What some other explorers say about the author’s adventures:
“An incredible journey of mammoth proportions.” -Mark Beaumont
“Alastair’s journey stands out as amazing.” -Sir Randulph Fiennes
“Epic Journey.” -
Bear Grylls
Walking Back to Happiness – Book Launch
DO PLEASE JOIN US
Thursday 12th April ~
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at:
Queens Park Books
87 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6NH
Tel: 020 7625 1008
www.queensparkbooks.co.uk
Nearest tube:
Queen’s Park (Bakerloo)
Buses: 6, 36, 187, 206, 316
R.S.V.P.
Dan Hiscocks 020 3239 3027 or
Tobias Steed 020 7708 2942
email: Dan@eye-books.com
Sales@CanOfWormsEnterprises.co.uk
To learn more about Chris Palmer’s book: Walking Back to Happiness or to order your own copy, please click here.
JUST OUT – Alastair Humphreys’ first book for children: The Boy Who Biked the World
Tom really wants to be an explorer.
When Tom’s head isn’t in the clouds it’s in an atlas. He follows adventurers not footballers and his schooldays are spent dreaming about travelling from Tibet to Timbuktu. One day a private wish blurted out loud started his freewheeling adventure:
“I’m going to cycle around the world.”
His classmates laughed. No one believed him, least of all his teacher.
“The mountains will be too high!” “The deserts too hot!”
Everyone shouted their reasons why his dream was impossible.
But it was a funny thing: the more people told him he couldn’t do it, the more Tom found himself wanting to prove them wrong.
Ride along with Tom as he overcomes his fears and sets off on the first part of his biggest ever adventure: to try to become the boy who biked the world.
What some other explorers say about the author’s adventures:
“An incredible journey of mammoth proportions.” -Mark Beaumont
“Alastair’s journey stands out as amazing.” -Sir Randulph Fiennes
“Epic Journey.” -
Bear Grylls
Mission:Explore WINS National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year Award
Can of Worms Kids Press is thrilled to announce that our Mission:Explore books have been selected as a National Trust/Hay Festival Outdoor Book of the Year 2011, making it a truly perfect stocking stuffer.
For two months the public voted for their favourite “outdoor books” and we can now reveal that our Mission:Explore titles are among the winners announced at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.
Our congratulations to all of the other winners.
Follow @NationalTrust and @HayFestival and @CanOfWorms on Twitter.
And in celebration we have a special offer on prices for our winning books.
Mission:Explore adds breadth to Latitude Festival
Well if you missed our wonderful Mission:Explore activities at the Glastonbury Festival then get your clogs on and head over to the Latitude Festival. This year we have been commissioned to produce the map for the Children’s Area containing the wonderful illustrations of the maestro of inkymess, Tom Morgan-Jones. Copies will be given out when you arrive as well as being printed in the Latitude Programme. There are some missions included on the back of the map, but if you can’t wait click here to download our special Latitude Festival Booklet.
Overdosed on Goodnight Moon – then Goodnight Keith Moon is for you.
There’s been quite a rhythm to business at Can of Worms recently. Nine titles out in the last couple of months with Goodnight Keith Moon the latest to come in from the printers and publishing on June 17th just in time for some fathers.
If you were wondering what to get your dad for Father’s Day (June 19th in the UK) then this is the perfect gift. He will be over the moon. If like me he has read Goodnight Moon the children’s classic a thousand times plus, then Goodnight Keith Moon will provide a a great riff relief.
The New Yorker said this:
Morbidly funny … this book has something for all ages. For the grandparent, a nostalgic game of find the Who reference; the parent, a sad reminder of how cool things used to be; and for the kid, tucked into bed listening to the the most inappropriate bed time story ever, a lesson: old people are weird [and] alcohol kills.
You can pre-order your copy from Amazon now in the United States for $6.18 plus P&P or the United Kingdom £6.29 plus P&P or you can order it right now from Can of Worms for £6.99 inc P&P for addresses in the UK (we’ll send it out first class post).
Goodnight Keith Moon is published by our new Word of Mouth imprint. Word of Mouth has been set up to publish books worth talking about. So please tell a friend and while you are at it check out The Inkspot Monologues by Keith Pointing.
Mission:Explore chosen as National Trust/Hay Outdoor Book of the Year 2011
The Hay Festival and the National Trust have announced the winners of the Outdoors Books of the Year poll to find the best recent writing about the outdoors.
Members of the public were asked to nominate their favourite book, published for the first time since 2010, which celebrates in some way the joys of the outdoors.
Titles ranged from fact and fiction to prose and poetry, across a wide variety of themes, from gardening and wildlife to extreme sports and travel.
Hundreds of votes were received via the National Trust’s website, which ran the poll between 15 April and 20 May.
And our very own Mission:Explore was among the winners. You can visit here to order copies on a special offer. Our congratulations to all the other winners.
And you can go here to read the Press Release from the National Trust.
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