Fern House Publishing

Here are some books already published by Fern House. We are pleased to discuss producing books for those who want to self-publish, and are always willing to give advice and estimates of costs.
If you are interested in getting your work into print, please e-mail info@fernhouse.com for our 'How-to-do-it' notes.
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53 Parkhurst Road
Julie Newman
Pub. Fern House Books

A Trip Down Memory Lane
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About Time
Rodney Dale
Pub. Fern House 1995

The author's only work of fiction so far; time is the subject – time turned about (hence the Fern House colophon).

Love in the Lanes
George James
Pub. Fern House Books 1998

A touching story of life in rural Norfolk
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Spearette
Rachel Millet
Pub. Fern House Books 1998

A memoir of the Hadfield–Spears Ambulance Unit 1940–1945
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The Butterfly House
Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Pub. Fern House Books 1998

A fictional – but nevertheless important and moving – record of the events culminating in the TienAnMen Square Massacre, 4 June 1989
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Halcyon Days – Recollections of Vintage Motoring
Rodney Dale
Pub. Fern House 1999

Recollections of post-war vintage motoring.
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Etheldreda – Princess, Queen, Abbess and Saint
Norman Sneesby
Pub. Fern House Books 1999

A biography of the Saint who founded Ely Cathedral.
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Harriette Wilson – Lady of Pleasure
Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Pub. Fern House Books 1999

The Queen of Tarts in the high-rolling days of the Regency aristocracy
With an introduction by Sue Limb

Over the Hill with a Magic Carpet
Joy Skinner
Pub. Fern House Books 1999

As close as you will get to what Show Business for the working professional is really like!
With an introduction by Paul Daniels.
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Haddenham & Aldreth Past and Present
Rodney Dale (ed)
Pub. Fern House Books 2000

A Millennium collection of photographs old and new
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The Cambridge Ghost Book
Robert Halliday & Alan Murdie
Pub. Fern House Books 2000

A detailed guide to the apparitions which haunt the colleges, streets and buildings of Cambridge.
Read the introduction to The Cambridge Ghost Book

Puss In Boots
Rodney Dale
Pub. Fern House 2001

Rodney Dale's new verse rendering of the old story – written for National Poetry Day 2001 (4 October)
Read The Tale of Puss in Boots

The Birth of the Steam Locomotive – a new history
Christopher Stead
Pub. Fern House Books 2002

A new history of this ever fascinating subject.
Read a chapter from The Birth of the Steam Locomotive – a new history

The Parish Clerks and Parish Councillors of Haddenham
Rodney Dale (ed)
Pub. Fern House Books 2002

If I were a Blackbird ... Recollections of Old Stevenage 1940 – 55
David Wallis
Pub. Fern House Books 2005

A unique glimpse of life in the rural Hertfordshire of fifty years ago.
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Cambridge Inscriptions Explained
Nancy Gregory
Pub. Fern House Books 2006

The Latin inscriptions of Cambridge come to life in a voice both witty and scholarly
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Huntington's Disease – A Nursing Guide
Steve Smith
Pub. Fern House Books 2009

Useful to carers of people with a range of degenerative neurological conditions
Read about Huntington's Disease – A Nursing Guide