SITE INFORMATION

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. The Beast of Eluti followed in 2013 - the second in a proposed trilogy (the third is 'on the stocks'); also in 2013 came Poems: Lunatic and Loving  by Anne Smith and Stepping Around Asia by Donald Clark. In 2014. A Solitary Act an Anthology of the work of Croydon Writers and Find Him by James Cameron were published. In 2015 Looking Back - A Century of Life in Bethnal Green by Joyce Hampton. 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 by Barrie Wiggham; and 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.