Lots of new books, just in time for Christmas!

Congratulations to the authors and publishers of the books shortlisted for the 2024 East Anglian Book Awards!  The EABA awards are always hotly contested.  They

In a week when close to 2000 new books were published, I’m a little hesitant about adding to your pile, but we’ve had a few

Much has been written about the Red Barn murder at Polstead in Suffolk – just look it up on Wikipedia to get a sense of what a

Now you may never have heard of Nogdam End, and may even doubt if it really exists, but Google maps demonstrates that it really does – and it records the stories of people who lived and worked in this area of marshlands and meadows south of the River Yare and north of Beccles, between Loddon and St Olaves.

Silver Darlings is set in the early 1900s in Northumberland and Suffolk, locations linked by the North Sea and herring fishing, written by LK Wilde,

The Larks Press was founded by Susan Yaxley in 1985, in part to provide work for her disabled son Thomas.  In the early days many

The recent Apple TV mini-series Masters of the Air, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, has rekindled interest in East Anglia’s numerous WW2 airfields. 

https://bitternbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20240408_175541.mp4 As the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings approaches, thoughts turn to those who lost their lives fighting to liberate the people of occupied