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Future events will include a cookery demon-
stration by Manna from Devon. a professional
wine-tasting session, creative wrapping and
card making, a present swap (recycled Christ-
mas gifts), and a Christmas party with pot-luck
supper. the Book Group, Diners Group, Film
and theatre Groups will also have events
planned.
as usual all women are welcome to join the
group. the annual subscription of £18 will
be collected in september –or visitors will be
asked for a contribution of £4 for each meet-
ing attended.u
O
riginally from Cheshire, Frances Croft has lived
in a number of places, moving to Dartmouth
nearly 20 years ago.
As a primary school teacher she has worked with
children in very varied circumstances and in many
different countries, including Uganda, Finland and Canada.
She has also been head teacher on three occasions, one
of which was of a village school in Devon.
During the past few years she has been writing books
for children aged 9 and upwards, and has produced a
over DNA that is set to destroy the world.
trilogy. She chose the fantasy genre as she knows, from
‘The Searching Stone’ explores the relationship between
enjoying reading with children over very many years, that
humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
they share her interest.
‘The Living Axe’ addresses many of the big issues of our
She decided to base her stories in Uganda as the
times such as desertification and melting ice caps.
country made a great impression on her while working
‘It is my intention,’ declares Frances, ‘that my books
there in the nineties. She wanted to show the children
be a mixture of education and adventure, of imagination
of the west a different side of Africa to that of wars and
and reality, and that the readers, while being entertained,
famine and disease as portrayed in the news.
should also learn and think.’
So here are books for children that show the positive
All three of the book covers were designed by
side of everyday life in beautiful rural Uganda, and
children in Dartmouth Community College (pictured
portray people living and working, largely undisturbed by
with Frances) and each book averages just over three
politicians and soldiers.
hundred pages.
Full of adventure and
They are available from
excitement that lead the
The Harbour Bookshop in
child heroes and their
Dartmouth, and also from
extraordinary pets to some
bookshops in Kingsbridge and
very strange and different
Totnes.
places, the stories also invite The cost is £7.99 for one
readers to address some of book, £15.00 for two books
the issues of our times, such and £20.00 for all three.
as pollution, global warming
More information can
and the destruction of the
be found on the website
life of the seas.
www.the-sparkat-trilogy.com
‘The Puzzling Mirror’ tells or by emailing Frances via
the story of a desperate
frances.croft@the-sparkat-
struggle to regain control
trilogy.com.
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