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Last Updated: 14 Aug 2021 - CURRENT MOST POPULAR:  Ireland's Loss - Britain's Gain.    


Rainbow Valley Books is a 'boutique' publishing house originally springing from the self publication of 
One Promise Kept in 1999.

Michael Round, as Commissioning Editor, was later approached to publish Benedick - A Cat's Tale  in 2011. Michael went on to publish his own When Gods Grow Old in 2012, and The Beast of Eluti 


Also, in 201
3.2013 came 
Poems: Lunatic and Lovingby Anne Smith and Stepping Around Asia. In 2014. 

A solitary Act 
an Anthology of the work of Croydon Writers and Find Him
 were published in 2016, and
Looking Back - A Century of Life in Bethnal Green.

Michael Round's memoir covering life in the Army in the 50s, 
The Bird of Time was published in 2016.

In 2017 a major private autobiography was published for Barrie Wiggham CBE, and in 2018 Rainbow Valley Books published the second of Croydon Writers' Anthologies:
The Trouble with Young Writers. 

In 2019 a new venture was undertaken to produce an illustrated accompaniment to the private autobiography Barrie Wiggham.


In 2020 a poignant first novel CONRAD  by Michael Kaye was published. 2020  also saw the publication of an ambitious almost 500 page Anthology of the work of the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers: Dancing with Words.

Our three latest publications currently about to hit the shelves are shown opposite.

Useful sites for those wanting to hone their skills.

SCPSW Society for Civil and Public Service Writers

Membership is restricted to ex-civil and public servants including the armed forces, teaching and the NHS.  Click button below to visit their site.

Croydon Writers

Membership is open with 'Country Membership' and 'Full Membership'. Full members tend to be in the Crodyon area. For aspiring writers. Monthly meeting when restrictions end. Monthly Writer of the Month event open to all members.

ORDERING

Send an email in your usual way to 

(copy and paste into you personal email system):

michaelround@blueyonder.co.uk

In some cases there is a dedicated order slip on the invidividual  book page.

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Recent Publication:

Dancing with Words

A 480 page Anthology of the recent writing of the Society of Civil and Public Servants Writers. Published December 2020

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Halo Halo

by Michael Kaye. (Michael Kay's second novel set in Hong Kong and the Philippines)

Publishing c. June 2021

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(Ireland's Loss, Britain's Gain)

by Ethel Corduff (an account of the vital impact Irish women had on the UK's medical services in particular the NHS

Published 1 July 2021

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by Michael Round (A Novella - daring and sensual account over the search for Caravaggio in 1610 before executioners or assassins got to him first)

Published: 1 July 2021

Four books published or in production this year.