Author: Simon Bates
-
What Personalisation Means (to us)
If you’ve read through our brief summary of why you should publish with us, you’ll have seen a reference to our personalised approach to publishing. Sure, that sounds great – who wants an impersonal approach to publishing – but what do we really mean by it? You work one on one with me throughout I…
-
On Seafaring
I’ve long been fascinated by the paradox of the sea – and really this applies to any large body of water, be it a great lake, or a navigable river, as well as the open ocean – that it is at once a barrier and a conduit. From a military point of view, sea borders…
-
On Migration
Migration I am myself a migrant. I am less of one than I used to be, if that’s possible to say, but I remain a migrant. I spent most of the first 24 years of my life within about fifteen kilometres of Oxford, and then proceeded to spend the next twelve and a half years…
-
On Laughter
The great joy of the English literature degree course I took was that it gave us a great degree of freedom to read whichever authors we wanted, as long as we could write something halfway intelligent about them. Much of the time we were constrained only by time period, and when it came to thematic…
-
On Power
This will be the first in a series of blogs going into a little more detail to outline our Themes. Each Theme is intended to be a kind of mega-series, allowing for quite broad interpretation of a single core idea across a range of disciplines. To kick us off, let me try and explain what…
-
And so it begins…
In the coming months I plan to write here about how Tithebarn Press (TBP from here on out) is developing, expand on each of our core Themes, and keep you all updated on what’s in the works. For now though I’d like to start by saying a bit more about why I’m starting TBP and…
