Joe Moorwood – författare

This is the Yorkshire edition of the humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, created by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. If you opened this book expecting to find a variety of quaint thee and thy-based colloquialisms with the odd "ee-by-gum" and "tha'll be reet" thrown in for good measure, you may be a little disappointed...However, if you picked up this book because you're curious about things for which no words exist, and have a mild interest in random Yorkshire villages with quirky names - then you're in luck! The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff twins some of the obscurely wonderful, often unheard of and wastefully under-used place names of this glorious county, with the numerous experiences, feelings, situations and objects which we all know but, for some reason, have no words attributed to them. In no time at all you could be waxing lyrical about your most recent denaby main; empathising with friends who have also suffered a grimston, or expressing a whiston acquired during a state of galphay...

In this beautifully presented children's picture book, a young boy has misgivings when his elderly Grandad moves in. But concern turns to wonder after learning a magical secret. Share their adventure in a heartwarming story of love, loss and the power of imagination. The story's themes are multilayered, insightful and positive - offering an overriding optimistic message about love and connection.The Outside Is Inside was 'highly commended' by Roger McGough CBE, in The 2020 Caterpillar Poetry Prize. The rhyming story has been brought to life by uniquely eye catching Lino print collage illustrations.

In this beautifully presented children's picture book, a young boy has misgivings when his elderly Grandad moves in. But concern turns to wonder after learning a magical secret. Share their adventure in a heartwarming story of love, loss and the power of imagination. The story's themes are multilayered, insightful and positive - offering an overriding optimistic message about love and connection.The Outside is Inside was 'highly commended' by Roger McGough CBE, in The 2020 Caterpillar Poetry Prize. The rhyming story has been brought to life by uniquely eye catching Lino print collage illustrations.