by Administrator | Jun 15, 2020 | News & Press
These events have now passed. Keep up with our other projects on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Make sure to follow Five Leaves for more author talks at @fiveleavesbooks on Twitter and Instagram, and shop here: http://www.fiveleavesbookshop…. Over the course of...
by Administrator | Mar 7, 2019 | News & Press
The memes have been around for aeons, the posters even longer: a cute kitty, hanging by its paws from a branch, and those trite words of encouragement: HANG IN THERE. If that poster had been on my wall during the last decade of trying to get a book deal, I would have...
by Administrator | May 11, 2018 | Quick Reads
1921 An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekley (1921) Ernest Weekley (see 1912-14) had a dictionary published in this year. It was published for lovers of our language and those with ‘an intelligent curiosity as to words origins and earlier...
by Administrator | May 4, 2018 | Quick Reads
1918 Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold (2018) In the wake of the war, which took 18 million human lives, the Spanish flu pandemic killed up to 100 million more (250,000 in Britain), making it the deadliest natural...
by Administrator | Apr 27, 2018 | Quick Reads
1915 The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (1915) Concerning three generations of the Brangwens, The Rainbow takes place between the mid-19th Century and the early 20th. Tom falls in love with a genteel Polish widow and adopts her daughter as his own. Interfamily relations...
