Frigid Women

By Sue Riches and Victoria Riches

Foreword by Dawn French

In 1997, 50-year-old cancer survivor Sue Riches and her daughter

Victoria joined 18 other women to embark on the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Incredibly intimate, inspirational and often hilarious, Frigid Women traces the team’s incredible journey through the snowy expanses of the world’s most hazardous terrain.

ISBN: 9781903070741

One reads a lot about book launches. At Can of Worms we are hoping that the official book launch of Mission:Explore will catapult it into best sellerdom. Following is a brief look at last weekend’s book launch: mebooklaunch

It all started with The Geography Collective in 2008, and Mission:Explore is about to be released into the wild:

“For all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world.

Recently the media has been wrapped up in a blanket of stories about cotton-wool kids.”

This was the beginning of a fascinating blog post on the Stanfords Bookstore website, written by Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective. You can read the entire blog here: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/blog/the-geography-collective-get-lost-kids,229,AR.html

And please pre-order your copy/ies of MIssion:Explore off these pages as well. For every two you buy a third copy WILL be donated to kids who can’t afford their own copy.

Tom Holman kindly acknowledged the heroics of our intrepid duo in yesterday’s Bookseller (16th October):

“The most committed visitors I’ve met so far are the intrepid duo from Can of Worms Press (that would be Paul and Helen), who set out by car from London late on Monday, crossed the Channel during the night, drove across France though Tuesday morning and set up their stand by late afternoon. About 40 hours since they last slept, they were still going strong on Tuesday night. Go easy on them if you meet them.”

Do of course visit the intrepid duo at our stand: Hall 8.0 L972 before they make their way back across La Manche.

We have a great array of new titles:
The Inkspot Monologues written and illustrated by Keith Pointing
Good Morning Afghanistan written by Waseem Mahmood
The Tempest illustrated by Oscar Grillo
Ten Lessons from the Road (by another intrepid traveller – this one cycled around the world) Alastair Humphreys
100 Ways to Change the World by Michael Meegan photos by Manuel Scrima
Each Day A Small Victory by Chips Hardy

And a tremendous back list of titles and services for other like minded publishers. Have a great Fair!