by Rebecca Houghton | Jun 25, 2024
The Flight of the Dandelion (My Story) Written by Dennis Magee Forward by Rev Jon Magee A young Forces child’s Journey through life.FromFlavoured milk in the morning school break and long carefree afternoons in the hot sun of Singapore.ToThe British Forces...
by Rebecca Houghton | Aug 23, 2023
Bretton Hall Essays Edited by Anthony W Denton & John L Taylor The editors and Quacks Books of York are pleased to announce the publication of a new book of retrospective essays about Bretton Hall College, Wakefield. The college was established to provide...
by Rebecca Houghton | Aug 8, 2023
Telling Tales Written by Marianna Michell and Illustrated by Harold Gosney “Stop telling tales!” was the admonition if a child gossiped or sounded to be stretching the truth. In writing stories from our personal memory, the truth is subject to ‘slippage’. It...
by Rebecca Houghton | Mar 21, 2023
A Friendly Word Written by Stephen Sayers and Illustrated by Swea Sayers “The book published by Quacks Books aims at explaining what it means to be a Quaker to young people over the age of about 7 years. The author, Stephen Sayers, and the illustrator,...
by Rebecca Houghton | Mar 21, 2023
To style or not to style? That is the question. A Story of the Book. by Michael Sessions (Author) This story of the book starts with the Phoenicians who formed a 22-letter alphabet, it discusses how to design your book from your script giving many examples from York’s...