The Magic will have you hooked
Community Health & Wellbeing Event in Hereford 22/03/2025
Maylord Orchards Community Event
I am excited to have been invited to join the Community Health and Wellbeing Event at Maylord Orchards Shopping Centre in Hereford on Saturday 22nd March 2025 from 10:30am to 3pm.
Books are my 'Happy Place' they help reduce stress, relieve anxiety and best of all bring great joy. Therefore, we will be at the event promoting Reading For Pleasure as well as for Health and Wellbeing As it is so close to Mothers Day why not consider a book as a gift. 'Lost Love In Spring' and 'Rainbows & Roses ~ Poetry & Prose' both have £1 OFF just apply the code SPRING25 after you check your basket. You can click estimate shipping costs 'Collect Hereford' and there will be no postage cost (This will be you collecting at the Maylord Event).
Also we have discovered that plush toys are a wonderful tool for health and wellbeing. Not just for children but for adults also. They are often used for emotional support in care homes. My mum sadly passed away at Christmas time, she suffered from dementia but she had a little plush puppy called Chester and if you view the images you will see the joy he brought her. I will have a couple of pups available at the event. I do hope you can drop by and say Hi.
Happy Reading
Upcoming Events #Storytime in Hereford 2025
Teaser from Bartholomew Drake
We are so pleased to announce that we will be doing some storytime events in our home town of Hereford during the school Easter Holidays.
Dates for your diary Thursday 17th April and Thursday 24th April 2025 in the upstairs Atrium of Maylord Orchards Shopping Centre.
Events are FREE to attend starting from 10:30am with the first story beginning at 11am and other stories on the hour every hour until 3:30pm. Watch this space more news coming soon.
Learn More About Us
Gillari Books was set up by Indie Author Rose English and her little mascot Miss Ruby Heart.
Living on 'England's Green & Pleasant Land', among the gentle rolling hills of the Herefordshire Countryside, Rose's house is wall to wall books. She's a Read-a-holic, whose hobby is to write stories for the young and young at heart.
Working as a school librarian, and sharing her love of books with children, was the best job she ever had. However, life moves on and another chapter was only a page turn away. Working in a very different library now, she is a key worker for the NHS helping to run the Medical Equipment Library in Wye Valley NHS Trust.
After winning FIRST PRIZE in a short story competition with 'The Magic of Grandfather Christmas' she is inspired to transform the tale into a collection of stories for all ages. ‘Young Ebenezer' is inspired by the Dickens classic 'A Christmas Carol' and brought into modern times with a strong theme of sharing and caring.
Rose has a little sidekick called Miss Ruby Heart, a ruby King Charles spaniel from the Grandfather Time Series. The puppy is the Ghost of Christmas Past and features on the 'Young Ebenezer’ covers. She also has her own social media pages check out www.instagram.com/missrubyheart1
** 2023 the royalties from our new picture book 'A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time' went towards printing copies of the book that were then gifted to children at Hereford County Hospital Wye Valley NHS Trust West Midlands UK.
A big THANK YOU to those of you who donated copies. **