4th December, 2009 Press Releases

Elly Botilda Vintage & Antiques – Carl Larsson meets Suffolk

‘Carl Larsson meets Suffolk’ crossed with your ‘Mad Maiden Aunt’s House’ is how former interior designer Anne Marie Jacob describes her latest venture, Elly Botilda, the Vintage and Antiques shop that she has recently opened in Uggleshall, Suffolk with her mother Mille.

For all those who love rummaging around in such places, this is a real Aladdin’s Cave of collectables with more and more pieces being brought in daily as Anne Marie and her mother scour the county for new finds.

Anne Marie says, “What we have done is consolidated several years worth of  finds and weekly visits to auctions to create a shop within a barn. I change everything once a week, recreating a different ‘theatre set.’ We have all  our old jazz LPs playing in one room, and a mini cinema on the TV of all the old classic movies playing from Gone with the Wind…through to The Glass Bottom Boat.

From charming patterned tea sets to Victorian day beds, lacey linen, magic wardrobes, school clocks, charming chandeliers, turn of the century postcards and prints, old school trunks the shop houses everything one would need to complete the charming country cottage look.

You will be warmly welcomed  and offered  tea and cakes whilst you browse. What could be better any day of the week?

Opening days tuesday to saturday 10.30 to 4.30

Elly Botilda
Manor Farm Barns
Manor Farm
Uggeshall
Suffolk NR34 8BD
01502 578077

Until early new year also

12 Abbeygate street
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk IP33 1UN

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19th November, 2009 Press Releases

Filthy English: The How, What and Why of Everyday Swearing

By Pete Silverton

Packed full of facts on all the filthiest words in the world, Filthy English considers how it can be that we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And howit might be alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****.  Silverton considers why it is we have moved through the religious and sexual stages of swearing to the racial stage; why mother insults cut so deep in the Mediterranean; and how the law has evolved to police new forms of obscenity.

When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976 there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, the same words are now almost media-mainstream – bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. Filthy English is the story of bad language over the last 30 years, charting its journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton gives a clear, comprehensive and witty overview of swearing during this time, traversing the globe to pinpoint the watershed moments that have changed the public’s attitude towards rude words, including the FCUK ad campaign, and bringing us bang up to date with Ross and Brand’s on-air offences.

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Peter Silverton has been a journalist for 30 years, starting as features editor at Sounds in 1976, covering punk, going on tour with the Sex Pistols and Clash and later writing Glen Matlock’s autobiography (I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol). He has worked as an editor at Time Out, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Express and the Guardian, and written with asterisks for practically every music magazine and newspaper in the land. Silverton started swearing at the age of four and can now swear in many different languages, and does, on a regular basis. He lives in North London with his wife and children.

Published 22nd October 2009
Hardback, £14.99

Peter Silverton is available for interview and to write articles, please contact Lindsay Paterson for more information:
lpaterson@portobellobooks.com / 020 7605 1374

17th November, 2009 Press Releases

Come and meet ROCKET THE REINDEER™

Creator of Rocket, Melanie Hurley from Rocket Enterprises commissioned earlier in the year a team to bring this loveable Reindeer and his friends to the screen. Now you can see this 3D animated adventure at Westfield, London and Meadowhall, Sheffield where the film is playing throughout the day, 7 days a week.

Hurley is extremely excited about creating her first fully animated short film in 3D, and believes that Rocket is going to be a very exciting brand and certainly will have worldwide appeal to a wide audience. Licensing opportunities are available. For free tickets to view this exciting new property, please contact suzanne@stunningpr.com, 07957 371840.

THE STORY

The story is based in Rocketland and is all about Rocket who has lost one of his Antlers so is unable to fly with Santa on Christmas Eve. Usually the fastest and always at the front poor Rocket is only able to go around in circles until his antler grows back.

Not one to give up easily Rocket asks his best friend The Cheeky Snowman for help and together they go in search to find the Wishfairy who they know has all the magical powers to make his antler grow back.

On their journey The Cheeky snowman, who is always up to mischief, hides from Rocket and starts throwing snowballs when no one is looking.

A bit further down the path the playful Elves ‘Pip and Pop’ are in Santa’s workshop and are very busy decorating trees and wrapping up all the toys.

Finally reaching The Wishfairy’s magical castle Rocket may finally be able to get his antler back in time to fly with Santa that night with the help of the Fairy and her magical bag of sparkly dust, but watch out for that very cheeky snowman as he has other ideas about what do with that bag of magical sprinkles!!

A fantastic seasonal short film, packed full of colourful 3D moments, and something to go and enjoy getting you in the mood to kick of the Christmas spirit.

The film has been created to suit families of all ages.

Time: 15 minutes with narration

The story has been written by acclaimed writer Oliver Caporn, and co-produced by Hurley and Tony Nottage.

Hurley is also delighted to have Richard Bazley on board who heads up the animation for the film. For the past decade Bazley has worked as a Supervising Animator at three of the Major Animation Studios, Sullivan Bluth Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation andWarner Bros. Projects worked on include Roger Rabbit and Hercules.

Branding opportunities follow in 2010 with plans already in the wing to create a sequel, a costume character, publish the story, make a short film for TV and print pyjamas and pencil cases for Christmas 2010!

For more information please contact Rocket Enterprises on 0845 234 8002 or visit www.rocketthereindeer.com

Media Enquiries and tickets: suzanne@stunningpr.com, 07957 371840

1st October, 2009 Press Releases

Anniversary of Berlin Wall inspires new English Novel

It will be 20 years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall on 9^th November 1989. Lisa Selvidge moved to West Berlin in 1984 and fell into the avant-garde, anarchic lifestyle of eighties Berlin. Now an author and creative writing tutor she has written a new novel, The Last Dance over the Berlin Wall, inspired by her time spent living in the walled-in city.

SYNOPSIS:

In 1984, Johnny East, a dancer, is invited to Berlin by mad Alice, an English girl living a bohemian life in the city at the heart of the Cold War. Alice is besotted with Johnny, but on a trip to the East one day, Johnny meets and falls in love with a Russian aerialist in East Berlin. They begin an affair that leaves a trail of East-West transits, both legal and illegal, including one of the most daring crossings of the Berlin Wall.

Twenty years on Johnny is the director of an aerial company and with an exciting new performance returns to Berlin, a new vibrant city, to face the ghosts of the past.

The Last Dance over the Berlin Wall is a story of young love, decadence and tragedy in the walled-in city of West Berlin.

‘An utterly compelling story which draws the reader into the fractured world of eighties Berlin, where life is fast paced, subversive, at times beautiful, but also tragic. Lisa Selvidge’s writing is as eloquent and supple as the aerialiste at the heart of the book. This novel is a spellbinding tale of individual consequences spinning out from a striking political divide.’ Sarah Law, Poet, Lecturer, London Metropolitan University

‘The avant garde, all night culture of West Berlin in the 1980s exists now only in the precarious memories of its punk rock survivors. Lisa Selvidge’s novel allows those who were not there a glimpse of this extraordinary historic and cultural moment. Her characters are richly drawn, wholly convincing, and emblematic of that time and place.’ Cid Pearlman, Choreographer, West Berlin resident 1984-1986

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lisa Selvidge has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Angliaand taught creative writing for 9 years at both the UEA and the Norwich School of Art & Design. She is the author of The Trials of Tricia Blake, A Divine War and a Writing Fiction Workbook. She has also edited a collection of writings about the Algarve called Summer Times.

The book is published by Montanha Books and is available from online bookshops and www.lisaselvidge.comfor £10.95. It is also available as a download for £3.50 from http://stores.lulu.com/lisa9

www.lisaselvidge.com

For interviews with Lisa, review copies, please contact:

Suzanne@Stunning PR or suzanne@stunningpr.com, 07957 371840