Latest Project

River Greta Writer's third book will now be published in the spring of 2011. It is still very much a work in progress. However, I can tell you that a central theme is trees. Yes, trees. Not trees as in the Sixties' skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus ('The Larch') but very special trees of every description in the Lake District and Cumbria. The book will cover the places and the people linked with those trees, the history, the stories, the impact of trees in the landscape, their importance in the scheme of things and the effect of extreme weather on the trees themselves; trees, in fact, as a barometer for our time and times past.

So it's a sort of 'Ivver Sen' with branches, roots and offshoots. And Joss puts in a celebrity appearance to add to the blend and the continuity.

At this moment in time I haven't the faintest idea what it will be called or what the front cover will look like although the book designer Gary Burge, of Walker Ellis, is beginning to get excited about images. I am again working alongside the photographer Val Corbett and am sure that her superb images will go a long way towards what we believe will be a fascinating follow on from 'Ivver Sen' the award-winning (Lakeland Book of the Year 2009) and 'Joss,' the biography of the legendary Lakeland shepherd and fell runner Joss Naylor, of Wasdale Head.