2009 is set to be an exciting year for Fidra Books with a new list of titles with wider appeal appearing alongside our main list of collectors’ editions.

The latter list will see the publication of books such as Shores of Darkness by Elinor Lyon, a previously unpublished book set in Wales near the author’s home; two of the popular Trebizon series by Anne Digby; Four Plus Bunkle and Bunkle Brings It Off by M Pardoe, the first and last books in the series; Lost Lorrenden by Mabel Esther Allan; I Wrote a Pony Book by Joanna Cannan, and Pony Club Team by Josephine Pullein Thompson.

Concurrent with this will be our mass market list beginning with The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker – this has been one of our most successful books and deserves a bigger audience and so we have a lovely new cover for it and later this year, it can be found, as they say, in all good bookshops. We also have the rights to Ruby Ferguson’s marvellous Jill series and will be starting to reissue those with the original text and new covers beginning with Jill’s Gymkhana. Our list of pony books continues with Eventer’s Dream; the first books in Caroline Akrill’s Eventing trilogy.

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Pony Club Team
Josephine Pullein-Thompson
In Pony Club Team, we revisit many of the people and ponies whom we first met in Six Ponies. They are all a little older now, and some of them have new mounts. There are also some new characters who are just as keen on riding. The team have adventures, pleasant and unpleasant during the two weeks they spend with Major Holbrooke schooling their ponies for a dressage competition, but meet all that comes with infectious good humour.
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House In The Hills
Olivia FitzRoy
Fiona, Ninian and Hugh from Orders to Poach find a dilapidated old croft in the wild hills of West Scotland; they paint and repair it to make a wonderful home for themselves. Of course it is the perfect place for adventures too: they stalk deer, they sail in the ‘Black Swan’, and with the help of the mysterious Fergus, search for a legendary cave.
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Easter The Showjumper
HM Peel
Ann Henderson and her husband Jim believe their beautiful mare, Easter, has show jumping potential which would establish them as breeders and trainers of champions. But trouble follows when they find that their newly-acquired Shetland pony can open gates. Easter has a colt which is stolen and Ann and Jim embark on a nerve-wracking pursuit…
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