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WHITEROSE PRESS BOOKS
Stories of Rosemary Whyte's Life
From little girl (21st Century 'Alice in Wonderland') to old lady Welcome to Rosie's World!
STOP PRESS! STOP PRESS!
LOOK OUT FOR 'COLLEGE STARS'
- A NEW TALE ABOUT SLEAZE AND DIRTY POLITICS IN A UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT.
Quote from a secretary:
'“You mean College rules...”
“Are there to be bent or broken. This isn’t Parliament. This is a little world unto itself. Our dear Principal is the king who rules by divine right and Heads of Department are the barons who are constantly battling each other for his favour. We’re the peasants, of course. What the king says goes, unless enough barons gang up against him and he loses his nerve. Someone should write a book.”'
HE HAS! (and CJC is an ex-London University lecturer)
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'FAMILY LIFE'
- in which an Indian Guru expounds his views on POVERTY, SAVING THE PLANET and ACHIEVING SUCCESS IN LIFE to the Whyte family.
Quote from Rosemary's father:
'“If only this guy could come up with some answers to poverty, corruption and disease in the developing world. But it’s not likely is it? Really, it’s all arrant clap-trap!”' Mrs Whyte replies:
'“I don’t think he’ll view it quite in the same way as you. He’ll be trying to solve your problems, not the world’s. He ‘ll say, I’m sure, that if everyone could get themselves on the right path, the world’s troubles would be very much lessened. So if you want to do something for the planet, get yourself sorted out first. That’s in essence what Gandhi used to preach, isn’t it?”
“And it’s rubbish!It’s what religious leaders have been feeding their flock with since time immemorial. ‘You don’t need food, you don’t need education, you don’t need clean water, doctors, hospitals and medicines. All you need is religion. Don’t use your time and money trying to do something about your country’s poverty, give your time and your money (especially your money!) to the church and God will let you into paradise after your short painful ignorant disease-ridden life’.” He uttered a rude word to do with four-legged animals and their natural functions and his wife looked at him reproachfully.'
- BOTH ARRIVING IN FEBRUARY - see Rosemary Whyte book page
Over the next few years, Whiterose Press
will be publishing 37 books about her life.
Don't know why.
They just feel her life is sort of fantastical (so many amazing things happen to her)
and . . . well . . .
for those
of you who might be interested . . . here's her homepage.
There are three sets of books being published.
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In the Rosie Mouse books you can read all about that wonderful time she had, living in Hyde Wood with the friendly mice there.
You see - on a trip to her local country park with her friends, she was shrunken down to mouse size by a wicked tree witch. Rosie had so many exciting adventures dealing with drunken stoats and weasels, fighting hungry wolves and dragons, and dodging the evil witch and wizard who ruled the wood,
the publisher's head just whirls thinking about it! It will take 16 books to tell them all.
The Rosie and Kathie books describe what happened when Rosie was a bit older and she and her best friend, Katherine Harrison, started at the local High School called Mundella. Kathie was a wiz at sport and she soon had that school hockey team organised! But they also had lots of adventures outside school, like the treasure hunt for a ‘Pot of Gold' she and Kath got started on shortly after the first term at school began.
The Rosemary Whyte set starts when she was about to go up to uni' in London . That summer before Rosie went to college was truly amazing! You can read all
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about what happened in ‘The Body in the Billiard Room’. A man was found shot in the head inside a room which was locked and sealed from the inside – the key was in the lock and turned so no one could push it out. He had a gun in his hand and the police decided on suicide, but the man's wife and Rosemary were sure it was a murder. She thought there might be a secret passage because this room was in an old ‘castle'. Rosie tried to play detective and solve everything (she was a great fan of detective stories) but didn't have much luck until ‘The Dragon’ appeared – not a real dragon of course – an elderly man called Mr Lung (that means dragon in Chinese) and he . . . oh . . . well . . . better not spoil it for you.
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The book titles are listed in the pages on this site – if they have an ISBN they are published and available. Order them from here or from certain Independent Booksellers (see News Page).
By the way, Whiterose Press is a very small independent publisher with few resources. The more books they can sell, the more they can publish – so tell your friends and if things go well, all the books on the lists will eventually become available.
Your Questions: If you have any questions you'd like to ask the author, he'll do his very best to answer. Just email them to the address on the News page.
P.S. Party Time! There are 37 books in the series. Whiterose Press have published 3 and there are 34 to come, giving a ratio of 3/34 = 0.088.
When this ratio passes 1.00, a big Rosie Party will be held – more on this later.
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