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About Us

Our Venture began when the late Charles Eastwood, a retired salesman in his late 70s, asked his friend, Geoffrey Howard, for a copy of his book – Dare to Break Bread. It had been out of print for years.

We were two retired people working very part time. Now there is just one of us.

Charitable Donations: All of the publisher’s profit and author’s royalty from Wheelbarrow Across the Sahara is given to the UK charity Water For Kids

Our Primary Objective is to bring back into print Christian titles that are no longer viable for mainstream publishers and to help new authors get into print. Using Amazon’s printing services for paperback and Kindle, we hold no stock and are free from the chore of packaging and post.

Our Editorial Policy for Christian titles is Trinitarian – no more, no less. We are prepared to publish works from a wide spectrum of honestly held Trinitarian beliefs.

Secular Titles form a minor part of our portfolio, especially new titles.

Constraints On Our Venture are numerous. In U.K. and within the E.U., titles are bound by copyright for 70 years after the author’s death. Our customers have asked us to republish titles which are still bound by copyright, but where we have been unable to find the copyright holder. An example of this are works by the late Archbishop Michael Ramsey. He died childless and his executor has also died. Neither Lambeth Palace nor Church Commissioners know of his beneficiaries, nor have letters to Church times produced any leads.

Once permissions to publish are acquired, then lack of electronic copies make the job of producing print-ready copy tedious and labour-intensive, sometimes taking weeks, for us who have no experience in this field. Low volume sales and tiny turnover requires that every job, including building this web site and designing book covers are done by ourselves, working from home. So, if you contact us, please bear in mind that we may be slow to respond.