Thursday 30 June 2011

Cornelia - NEW NOVEL out now on Kindle

Can First Love ever by True Love?

A thrilling romance set in Roman Britain that takes the young adult reader to the passionate, turbulent and violent heart of Imperial Rome.

Can First Love ever by True Love?

Born into wealth and comfort as the daughter of a wealthy farmer in Roman Britain, Cornelia has everything that a girl could want. But on the passing of her 16th birthday, Cornelia learns that her parents have arranged for her to marry the son of a local landowner. When handsome army officer Marcus appears in her life, Cornelia finds her world turned upside down.

But happiness turns to despair when Marcus and his regiment are posted back to Rome. Determined to follow her new love to find happiness, Cornelia gathers what little money she has and sets out alone for the great Imperial capital of Rome. In the course of her long journey she will meet adventures and dangers in plenty.

But above all she must answer a burning question: Can first love ever be true love? And she finds the answer in a most unexpected place.

The book has been carefully researched to provide an accurate and convincing portrayal of Britain as it was in the mid-2nd century when the Roman Empire was at its most powerful, prosperous and secure.

About the Author
Jane Jones lives in a rural village in Surrey, near to where the novel opens - but some 1800 years later.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

First Hit on Staite of Britain

We have had our first hit on our website for The Staite of Britain.

Edward Staite is a key insider in the British political world. He spent two years as George Osborne’s spokesman, advised David Cameron on strategic communications and was Boris Johnson’s press secretary during the 2008 mayoral election. He has worked as a speech writer, policy and communication adviser to the Conservative Party in the Houses of Parliament. He now runs his own communications consultancy specialising in reputation management and training."

Monday 27 June 2011


Ed Statie writes:
Perhaps it is a mark of the modern world - pointing to an ever greater reliance on technology as a source of entertainment - but the most common question raised when telling friends I'd had a book published was: 'when is it available on Kindle?'

Now I like the warm satisfying feel of a book in my hand but progress is progress, so friends and now readers of this blog can relax. It's here!

If this is the true test of the 21st century literary world then I'm claiming a pass (with modern grading standards an A*). You can download the book - The Staite of Britain - here. All proceeds are split between me and my brilliant publisher but at just over two quid a copy you will net yourself a bargain while I am unlikely to get rich quick.  



Friday 24 June 2011

This England

We have just heard that the This England magazine is to feature our book "Sceptic at Large" by Roger Helmer MEP.



   

Thursday 23 June 2011

New contract signed

We have just signed the contract for the next title in our series "Heroes of the RAF". Watch this space for details.

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Sceptic at Large reviewed in the Northern Echo newspaper


Peter Mullen’s Book review
Sceptic at Large by Roger Helmer (Bretwalda Books) £9.99 ISBN 978-1-907791-20-8
Roger Helmer stands out like a Robin among sparrows in the general mess of bland and characterless politicians. He has been a member of the Conservative group in the European Parliament since 1999. This lively, cheerful and entertaining book is an outline of some of Helmer’s vigorous personal campaigns against the consensus politics of the great majority of MPs and MEPs who seem concerned with very little apart from their self-preservation. But Roger has his head above the parapet permanently and it is a miracle that he has not had it shot off a dozen times before now.
He is no mere rabble-rouser or maverick for the perverse pleasure of being the only one out of step. On all the issues which engage him, he is logical, rational and highly informed. On the universal fantasy of global warming, for instance, he deals in facts and plain speaking:
“Is global warming happening? No. The world has got slightly cooler over the last ten years and the rate of cooling is accelerating.”
Even if global warming were happening, would the energy policies of the Coalition do anything to mitigate it?
“No. We are pouring truckloads of money into a doomed project and causing huge damage to ourselves, to European economies and to our children and grandchildren.”
He is forthright on the position of the Conservative party in the Coalition: “If the Conservative party has ceased to be conservative, what exactly is the point of it?”
As for rampant political correctness – the totalitarianism-lite under which we are now ruled, Helmer protests against the issue by the EU of three million diaries listing the feast days of Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism but with no mention of Christmas or Easter. He rightly sees it as preposterous that Europe, which was founded on Christianity, should make no mention of its major festivals.
The EU is a shambles of inefficiency and corruption and its current policies will do nothing to resolve the biggest financial crisis since the great crash of 1929:
“The Greek bale-out is under a cloud. The Germans hate it. The funds being poured into it might keep Greece out of hock for a year or two, but if they have to cover Portugal or Spain as well, they’ll soon run out.”
And while the Labour party, the trades unions and the left-wing newspapers are screaming about the “harsh cuts,” the government is still borrowing £millions every day. There is a general refusal to face up to the severity of Britain’s financial predicament:
“One of my very distinguished and well-known colleagues suggested to me that it is no longer daft to think of keeping a suitcase of cash under the bed. But which currency – and which bed?”
Here is a man who has seen from very close quarters for twelve years how the EU operates its colossal fraud on European nation states and their people. Roger Helmer concludes:
“Each new EU treaty transferred more powers to Europe. It took years in the European Parliament to convince me that the EU was beyond reform and that it deserves to be put out of its misery. The EU bus is going towards ever-closer union. We can either go along or get off.”
This is a scintillating book with not a single dull paragraph.

BBC News covers the launch of "Sceptic at Large"

BBC News has covered the launch of the book "Sceptic at Large" by Roger Helmer MEP.

Go to this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007tjm6
And scroll forwards to 52:30 where the news item begins.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Launch Event for "Sceptic at Large" by Roger Helmer MEP

Roger Helmer writes:
Yesterday saw the launch in London of my new book “Sceptic at Large” in the former CCO building in Smith Square — now the headquarters of the occupying power in the UK.  The EP office it may have been, but at least we were in the Churchill Room, with the portrait of the great man looking benignly down on our efforts.
The room was packed, with many standing at the back, and the assembled throng included MPs — Christopher Chope, Heather Wheeler, Robert Goodwill (telling me that his presence did not signify approval of proceedings from the Whips’ Office), and of course my old comrade-in-arms Chris Heaton-Harris, to whom the book is dedicated.  The Upper House was represented, as was the European parliament (Nigel Farage MEP).  There was a good smattering of ECR staff (the have an office in the building), Tim Montgomerie and Jonathan Isaby from ConHome, Matthew Elliott from the Taxpayer’s Alliance, folk from the European Foundation, a video team from the BBC, groups from the Freedom Association and my publisher Bretwalda Books (Rupert Matthews), plus my staff and former staff, and other staffers from the HoC across the road.
After the event (I fear a transcription of my speech may end up on this blog), the teams from TFA, Bretwalda and my office, plus Chris Heaton-Harris, repaired to the restaurant in the basement of Saint John’s Church in the middle of Smith Square, where there’s an excellent restaurant — the Goan Tiger Prawn Curry was particularly good.
We’ve already had orders in from the UK and the USA for the electronic (Kindle) version of the book.  Owing to an error of timing at the dispatchers, quite a number of members of the audience at Smith Square had already received a copy, and made some very generous comments.  Perhaps the nicest was “I expected it it to be solid and dull, but actually it’s very interesting”.  “Sceptic at Large” is available from Amazon.



“Sceptic at Large” launched in London

Author Roger Helmer MEP writes:

Yesterday saw the launch in London of my new book “Sceptic at Large” in the former CCO building in Smith Square — now the headquarters of the occupying power in the UK.  The EP office it may have been, but at least we were in the Churchill Room, with the portrait of the great man looking benignly down on our efforts.
The room was packed, with many standing at the back, and the assembled throng included MPs — Christopher Chope, Heather Wheeler, Robert Goodwill (telling me that his presence did not signify approval of proceedings from the Whips’ Office), and of course my old comrade-in-arms Chris Heaton-Harris, to whom the book is dedicated.  The Upper House was represented, as was the European parliament (Nigel Farage MEP).  There was a good smattering of ECR staff (the have an office in the building), Tim Montgomerie and Jonathan Isaby from ConHome, Matthew Elliott from the Taxpayer’s Alliance, folk from the European Foundation, a video team from the BBC, groups from the Freedom Association and my publisher Bretwalda Books (Rupert Matthews), plus my staff and former staff, and other staffers from the HoC across the road.
After the event (I fear a transcription of my speech may end up on this blog), the teams from TFA, Bretwalda and my office, plus Chris Heaton-Harris, repaired to the restaurant in the basement of Saint John’s Church in the middle of Smith Square, where there’s an excellent restaurant — the Goan Tiger Prawn Curry was particularly good.
We’ve already had orders in from the UK and the USA for the electronic (Kindle) version of the book.  Owing to an error of timing at the dispatchers, quite a number of members of the audience at Smith Square had already received a copy, and made some very generous comments.  Perhaps the nicest was “I expected it it to be solid and dull, but actually it’s very interesting”.  “Sceptic at Large” is available from Amazon as a PAPERBACK and as a KINDLE.

Read ROGER'S BLOG.

Monday 13 June 2011

Book Launch tomorrow

Roger Helmer MEP
requests the pleasure of your company
at the Launch of his book
“Sceptic at Large”
to be held at The European Parliament Office,
32 Smith Square, Westminster SW1P 3EU
at 11.30am on 14th June 2011

Refreshments

RSVP rogerhelmer@eastmidsmeps.co.uk
or 01858 465204

Thursday 9 June 2011

Our Website is now live

Our new website can now be found on www.BretwaldaBooks.com. You can learn about our books, read our news, buy our books and keep fully up to date

CLICK HERE

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Meet Team Helmer





Roger Helmer MEP with his office staff. Roger's new book "Sceptic at Large" is due out on Tuesday 14 June. Watch this space for details.

Soldiers Tales - New Video


Watch the video about the book here.