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Announcing the first ever Inpress Virtual Book Tour

A first for Inpress in the coming weeks: we're going on tour! More specifically, author Richard Aronowitz, of Five Amber Beads fame, will be appearing on a host of sites across the blogosphere, talking about his new novel It's Just the Beating of My Heart.

Over the next fortnight, you can follow Richard on his tour and read reviews and interviews on a range of topics, from how to get published to his career in the art-world, as well as the surprise ending that had Tom Sutcliffe in such a twist in The Independent last Friday.

First up, there's the next installment of Richard's ongoing Train of Thought series - little gems of thought and comment from aboard the commuter trains where both his novels were born.

Buy the book here.

Launching this week: Inroads by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

This week sees the launch of a prodigious new talent on the poetry scene. Inroads is the debut collection from Carolyn Jess-Cooke, a Northern Irish poet now based in North East England who has already received many awards and widespread recognition for her work.

Published by Seren, and launching at Newcastle's City Library this Thursday, Inroads is a sophisticated mix of modernised myth and legend, playful experiment and multi-faceted insight into modern life and young motherhood.

It has been described by Carol Rumens as "a sparkling variety-act, choreographed with a strong but daring sense of form... Jess-Cooke is a poet who revels in the magical pleasure of language, and readers will enjoy sharing it with her."

For more information on the launch event, click here.

Or to buy the book, click here.

Mark Hodkinson and his beloved Rochdale FC

Readers of the sports pages will have spotted, in The Times on Saturday, the story of long-suffering Rochdale FC – a football club now on the brink of success after years in the mire – as recounted by Mark Hodkinson, lifelong fan and founder of Pomona Books.

His book about his club, Believe in the Sign, was hailed as one of the sports books of the year for 2009 in both The Guardian and The Times. It's best described as a 'sort of a memoir': about a normal, average boy who would have grown up happily average and normal but for a dark and perverse passion: the seductive lure of devotion to a no-hope, near-derelict football club...

Mark Hodkinson has also written a novel, The Last Mad Surge of Youth, this time about his other life's love, music. It was dubbed the 'rock novel of 2009' by Q magazine and received widespread critical acclaim in the likes of The Observer, The Times and Mojo Magazine.

Click to buy Believe in the Sign or The Last Mad Surge of Youth.

Or for more titles like these, check out our Sport and Music sections.

New poems from Simon Armitage

Today we celebrate World Book Day 2010, the biggest celebration of books and reading across the UK and Ireland. And while the focus is rightly on schools and children, there's no reason why the adults can't join in, is there?

Launched this coming Monday are the latest poems from Simon Armitage, perhaps the UK's foremost poet, playwright, biographer and novelist: "the front man of his generation", according to Poetry Review. The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right will be published on 8th March, and is available to pre-order now.

Simon Armitage is also the author of The Not Dead, a collection of poems on modern warfare that draws on the experiences of veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia and Malaya, and originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name in 2007.

To buy the new Simon Armitage pamphlet, click here.

Or for more information about World Book Day, click here.

Book of the Month: It's Just the Beating of My Heart by Richard Aronowitz

Launching this month is Richard Aronowitz's second novel, It's Just the Beating of My Heart. Published by Flambard Press, this is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Five Amber Beads, which received sterling praise in the likes of The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and The Financial Times.

It's Just the Beating of My Heart launches this Thursday (4th March) at Daunt Books, Fulham Road, London. If you'd like to be there, and for more details, click here.

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