HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE
Over, by Ruth Rosengarten
The Crème Fraîche Gallery
44 Great Russell St, London WC1B
Tuesday, May 26 from 6 pm ​​​
Poet, translator and editor Astrid Alben in conversation with Ruth Rosengarten. Book sales and signing.​​
Free, and all welcome but kindly RSVP: info@thenewmenardpress.com​
Sally Bayley WORM IN THE BUD with Elisabeth Gray
Saturday, Jun 13 from 2 pm to 3 pm​
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Author Sally Bayley will discuss her recently published novella, 'Worm in the Bud', Accompanied by award winning actress Elisabeth Gray
Worm in the Bud
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Lilian Blackwood is a sixteen year old girl who longs to be powerful.
But the strict Victorian world she has been raised in does not allow girls to express themselves, and her desire to be noticed gets the better of her when she meets with the handsome Mr Tilney and his manservant, Carpenter.
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Set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the British Empire this is a fable of innocence unchallenged by experience and a comment on the ambiguities of love, sex and history.
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Author Sally Bayley will discuss her recently published novella, Worm in the Bud: A Fable (The New Menard Press): a sexual coming of age story set against the backdrop of a repressed Victorian society and the financial machinations of the British Empire. Theatrical, lyrical and inventive, Sally’s fable asks whether innocence is possible in a world already so determined by class and socio-economic status.
Sally will be accompanied by award winning actress Elisabeth Gray who will perform uniquely dramatised extracts from Sally’s novel.
Writing Women: Workshop and Discussion Group on International Women’s Day
The H B Allen Centre Oxford, England
Sunday, Mar 8 from 3 pm to 5 pm​
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Two award-winning authors discuss their forthcoming novels, women’s writing in the 21st century, and female protagonists coming of age.
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Join us at Keble College's H B Allen Centre in celebration of International Women’s Day. We will dive into the fictional worlds of Alice Jolly and Sally Bayley, whose protagonists pursue their dreams under the iron curtain of gender inequality and political violence.
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Jolly’s novel, The Matchbox Girl, chronicles a young girl’s quest for knowledge in 1938 Vienna on the brink of Nazi Occupation while Sally Bayley’s fable, A Worm in the Bud, follows a Victorian child’s search for identity against the backdrop of the British Empire.
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Please note that spaces are limited. We will speak directly with two of Oxford University's strongest authors in an extended Q&A format.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR NEW 'ON BEING ILL'
Virginia Woolf's essay 'On Being Ill' was first published in 1926. This year - exactly a hundred years later - The New Menard Press is excited to present a new anthology complementing our first edition, published in the early period of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
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We are delighted to invite new authors to contribute with personal reflections on the subtle complexities around art, literature, illness, disability and care. All are invited to submit before March 1.
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WE ARE ATTENDING THE SMALL PUBLISHER FAIR
Come and brows our books and meet us on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October at The Small Publishing Fair, taking place in London's historic Conway Hall, centre of humanism and literary Bloomsbury. Admission is free! Find more info here.
NEW MOON AT CECIL COURT
On Tuesday 7 October 2025 we invite Astrid Alben – poet, editor and translator of Chaja Polak's A Letter in the Night – together with composer, artist and author Sarah Neutkens, for an evening full of poetry and music, celebrating a new moon ánd our very first , of many events in collaboration with the Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery. Entrance is free for all! From 6-8pm at Cecil Court Gallery (18 Cecil Court, London).
