Why books for Reluctant Readers?

Have you ever tried to get your kids to read books at home and been given this look? Been given multiple excuses about why they don’t want to do it? Or just been faced with a tantrum?

MURDER

MURDER is here! Book 10 in The Children of Ribe series! https://bit.ly/2OHoYTw Get it signed and before anyone else through eBay before it hits Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores. Though things have been quiet on the website for the past few months, C.S. Woolley has not been resting on her laurels when it comes to …

Victoria Day Special

C.S. Woolley here, As it is #VictoriaDay on Monday in #Canada (which should totally be a bank holiday here too, but I digress) and the Mysteries of Stickleback Hollow books are set during Victoria’s reign, I have put something special together (and #exclusive) for our Canadian cousins. Every book bought from the Mightier Than the Sword UK eBay listings that …

TREASON release

It’s been a busy start to the year at Mightier Than the Sword UK Publications, which has admittedly been hampered by the horrible bugs that were going around. However, we have persevered and there are a few exciting things coming up in April – the first of which we are slightly late reporting on! Yes, …

Did you know?

The journey that Sarah and Lieutenant Forsythe take from India to England is one that travellers in the early 1800s would have had to brave before the Suez Canal was completed and the establishment of direct voyages from England to India. The two departed from Bombay on the Hugh Lindsay steamer, a boat that sailed …

The Merchant of Venice

You might be aware of C.S. Woolley’s work with Foxton Books, modernising the classics and simplifying them so that those learning English can enjoy reading the complicated narratives even when they know only a small portion of the language. Well this is not the only way that she is working to help education. She has …

Closing for Christmas

If you’re looking to purchase gifts for Christmas from the Mightier Than the Sword UK online store, then today is the LAST day that you can do that. As it takes at least two working days to process orders, we will do our best to process any orders placed after today before we close for Christmas …

A Bonfire Surprise in Stickleback Hollow

For those of you who are already fans of the series,you may know that there is a cricket element in the naming scheme of the characters, but in this book cricket has landed. Though the game itself doesn’t get unfolded play by play, match by match in the narrative, you do get a taste for …

The Chronicles of Celadmore

Step into a world of war, magic, tribes, treachery and dragons. The Chronicles of Celadmore is a fantasy series based in a fictional realm, written by C.S. Woolley. The Chronicles of Celadmore fall into the epic fantasy end of the fantasy genre with some influencing elements of gothic fiction and gritty realism that combine to …

Nicolette Mace: the Raven Siren

Murder, Mayhem, and that’s just the heroine Nicolette Mace is not your average private detective. Join in this first person, modern, crime noir world alongside policemen Fred Barlow and Harry Lee. My name is Nicolette Mace, though the city knows me as the Raven Siren. I’m the youngest private investigator most people have ever come …