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Congratulations Loretta Schauer – Picture This winner

Maverick Books first met Loretta at the London Book Fair 2011 and loved her portfolio with its quirky but cute characters. Impressed, we commisioned her to do some greetings cards for Maverick’s sister company, Icarus Arts Publishing. We were very excited when we heard that Loretta had been shortlisted for the ‘Picture This’ competition! Waterstone’s second ‘Picture This’ competition in conjunction with The Daily Telegraph and HarperCollins Children’s Books was… Read More »Congratulations Loretta Schauer – Picture This winner

End to the Epic Book Tour

As I am typing this the lovely Fin and Zoa are trying to organise the last stage of their journey… Their flight back to Canada. The two dogs, Jack and Poco Loco are lying in the Maverick office having a good old kip before they head towards Gatwick. From their nine week book tour there have been many highs and lows – Fin & Zoa loved the British countryside especially… Read More »End to the Epic Book Tour

The Dog Detectives and the Canine Partners Event!

On 15th September the Dog Detectives authors cycled their way to the Canine Partner’s HQ at Heyshott. We had two schools attending the event, Manor Green School all the way from Crawley and Conifers School from Midhurst.  They were treated to a presentation by Fin and Zoa, showing how having the dogs effect their travels.  The Fin read from Lost in London and then they finished by all the children… Read More »The Dog Detectives and the Canine Partners Event!

FSW Charity Fun Day with Giles

Giles headed to the family support work charity fun day (where he is a partron) to read his book the Fearsome Beastie. The sun was shining and a great day was had by all!

Lost in London…The Dog Detectives Reach the Capital

A year and a bit after Fin and Zoa first penned the Lost in London book, their two dogs Jack and Poco Loco have now cycled into the capital city. Their alter-egos the Dog Detectives discover the city in Lost in London, visiting all the fam0us landmarks. Here are some photos of the real dogs:

The Dog Detectives at the Golden Treasury!

Fin & Zoa attended their penultimate event at the Golden Treasury  yesterday!  Golden Treasury is the largest independent children’s book shop in London! The event was well attended and some of the children had been very proactive and bought there books before the event.  Fin and Zoa read from all three books and the children loved joining in with the riddles in Lost in London and hearing Fin doing his… Read More »The Dog Detectives at the Golden Treasury!

Gile Paley-Phillips on Portsmouth Live TV

Live at 5pm – Tune in to listen to Maverick author, Giles Paley-Phillips talking about his book Fearsome Beastie and about the life of an author!  His interview is about half way through.

Maverick at Top Drawer Gift Fair

Maverick Arts Publishing are exhibiting at Top Drawer Autumn this year.  We will be taking our children’s books and also our range of children’s greetings cards. The event is at Olympia from 11th – 13th September. We are stand number M27 – please come along and say hello!