“Dr Lorna Robinson is the founding director of the Iris Project, a charity which runs a range of classics-based initiatives in state schools and communities. She is also the founding director of the Rumble Museum at Cheney School, the first accredited museum in a school.

Her latest novel is “Oread”:

“Two hundred years have passed since the UK government instituted a bold new programme to pair every citizen with a tree. Known as the Hamadryad Charter, it created vast national forests, major civic festivals and a whole new system of personal names. Deep in the tunnels beneath London, a community has been growing which rejects the Charter. Tensions between the two societies are rising sharply. When a lone Hamadryad finds his way into the underground, a terrible tragedy threatens to unfold. Oread is the sequel to Hamadryad, but can be read as a standalone novel.”

She is also the author of three other novels.

Hamadryad – is a blend of sci-fi, ancient Roman religion and dystopian fiction, the novel imagines a near future where humans are bonded to trees.

The Birder – is a magical realist novel set in a world where people transform into animals instead of dying. The novel is illustrated throughout with linocuts depicting birds in locations around the city of Oxford.

Flower Gathers – is inspired by the mysterious Minoan Civilisation, the novel re-imagines both ancient lives and modern ones in a new exploration of an ancient setting.”

Mediterranean Publishing is the storyteller’s home. Since 2019, we’ve been the quiet force behind hundreds of authors—shaping raw manuscripts into polished works of courage, culture, and consequence. From a child’s first picture book to a scholar’s definitive thesis, we believe every story deserves the integrity of traditional craft and the reach of modern strategy.

Panjeree is a leading and trusted name in Bangladesh’s publishing sector. Since its journey began in 1994, it has expanded from educational books into diverse areas of publishing, combining experience with a modern approach to serve readers of all ages.

Panjeree has already achieved distinction in publishing creative works, particularly in children’s literature. Realising the importance of the young readers, we have been successfully publishing reference books, novels, poetry books, comics, travelogues, classics in translation for the juveniles that have created a culture of reading among them.

Our commitment to publish quality books has received wide acclamation. Crossing the borders, Panjeree has already earned commendation as a result of our endeavor to expand our market and activities in India, the UK and other parts of Europe, the USA, Australia, and few other countries.

Our contributors include distinguished academics, researchers, award-winning writers and editors, supported by experienced in-house editors and proofreaders. Panjeree also operates an extensive distribution network and PBS, its international standard bookshop chain, which organises year round book fairs all over the country.

As we work towards becoming a global name, we remain committed to UNESCO’s ‘Books for Everyone’ and the Bangladesh Government’s ‘Education for All’, promoting a future where passion for reading drives social progress.

A Yorkshire Gospel: Search for a Spare Messiah

In the quiet East Yorkshire village of Roos, so flat you could watch a terrier run away for three days, are two men of middling ambition that stumble upon a mystery of biblical proportions.

When Coldog and Trev discover a cryptic message on a beer mat suggesting someone called ‘Helen’ may have found the Grail, they do what any reasonable men would do. They go looking for it.

What follows is a quest involving: a jar with suspicious contents, a dog who is always muddy, at least three Helens, and the worrying possibility that God might have had a second child.

A Yorkshire Gospel is a surreal, irreverent, and thoroughly northern adventure about faith, friendship, and the dangers of thinking too hard after six pints. Somewhere between divine revelation and administrative error lies the truth. And it might just be in Yorkshire.

About the Author
C. R. de Gernon writes comedic fiction from a fortified potting shed, drawing inspiration from the people, buildings, landscapes, and peculiar logic of Yorkshire life. He writes in various persons as he identifies as plural. He explains that “I am one” and “the other is me”; therefore, the two of us are “we”.

It is understood that he currently lives somewhere in East Yorkshire, where rumours continue to circulate with alarming efficiency.

C. R. de Gernon is the 14th heir to a title that no longer exists and a fortune of sprouting vintage grass seeds.

After 40 years (and counting!) of writing scientific papers, books and patents where almost every sentence needs to be justified with a reference, I suppose I longed for being able to write something which did not have any boundaries. Having recently become a part-time consultant scientist and with all four children having now left our house, there is some time for me to let my mind wander through those things that do not need to be proved; do not have to be true. But the scientist in me hasn’t allowed me to stray that far from the truth or reality and that’s pretty much how I ended up writing ‘A Painkiller to Die For’ (2025). This was my second published novel after ‘A Practical Arrangement’ which came out towards the end of 2023 under the nom de plume of Verity Trevethan.

My third novel, ‘The Disappearance of Sarah Griffiths,’ has a publication date of 28th November and also has a smattering of science running through the plot. My editor has labelled this book as ‘Gone Girl meets Breaking Bad’ and I think I can see where she is coming from. It is a dark, domestic noir based around a young married couple whose comfortable existence is crumbling around them. The life changing events lead to the wife’s disappearance and a criminal investigation looking into the death of a small-time drug dealer. The novel asks questions to just how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love and the lives we’ve built and what we become when they start to fall apart.

Pamela Roberts is an award-winning creative producer, historian, author and founder of Black Oxford Untold Stories, a cultural platform dedicated to uncovering, documenting and bringing to wider public attention the histories and contributions of Black scholars at the University of Oxford.

Through books, heritage experiences, talks, exhibitions, film and creative projects, Black Oxford Untold Stories creates new ways to encounter histories that have too often remained hidden or overlooked.

The new, substantially updated and extended edition of Black Oxford: The Untold Stories of Oxford University’s Black Scholars will be published in October 2026. Based on new research, it revisits the stories of Black scholars including Christian Frederick Cole, Britain’s first Black barrister, and Alain LeRoy Locke, intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance. It also highlights African and African American women, the contribution of the Windrush Generation, and a new generation of Black scholars and leaders at Oxford.

Pamela is also the author of The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual: James Arthur Harley. She has contributed to BBC History Magazine, academic journals and Oxford University Press reference works.

She is an alumnus of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.