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‘A Poppy in My Buttonhole’
ISBN 978-0-9557617-8-2
Price: £5.99
Published on Thursday 28th August 2008
£1.00 from each book sale will go to The Royal British Legion.
The target is 5,000 books sold by Remembrance Sunday 2012, which will give The Legion £5,000 with an overall target of £50,000.
‘A Poppy in My Buttonhole’ ISBN 978- 0- 9557617- 8- 2 is a collection of thoughts, ideas and poems written during my time in The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars between 1971 and 1983. There are also poems written during the Poppy Appeal 2006. At the back of the book is the War Memorial for Newark-on-Trent, for which Chris Green was the principle researcher and remains the person who researches each name, which is in Newark Cemetery.
Chris is an artist, author, poet and writer and has 5 more books in the pipeline, including ‘The Fallen of Newark, Part One: 1914 to 2012’ which will be in aid of The Royal British Legion; Part Two is 1913 to 1770 and Part Three is 1769 to 1640.
Chris's third book is being written now and is called 'A Portrait of The Autist as a Young Man', in aid of the National Autistic Society and is due to be launched on 1st October 2009.
The fourth book is in aid of the Journey Art Group and will be done as a project work with the members of the group and will go through the whole process from planning, through writing to self-publishing and then advertising, marketing and selling.
The fifth book, which is a long-term research project, is 'Newark Subterrannea' and is a survey of all of the underground man-mad structures in Newark Town and covered by the Conservation Area and the Newark Civic Trust. Cellars go back to the 12th century, undercrofts, many tunnels left over from the English Civil War, salting and smoking cellars, baking ovens, wharfs, military structures and even an underground hospital.
I am also doing a book of cartoons called 'The Crocodile Chronicles' and this will form a series with a book being published once there are sufficient drawings.
On The Legion side he is Membership Secretary of Newark Branch and serves on the Nottinghamshire County Committee. He says of himself: “I wear a powerchair and have a touch of autism and through creativity I relate my world to others. I am literally-minded and have as much tact as a flying brick.”
Chris is very active in Newark-on-Trent and is a member of the Friends of Newark Cemetery, Newark Civic Trust, Newark Allotments and Garden Society, Newark Foragers, Treasurer of Journey Art Group and the Honorary Chair of Croc-around-Britain. He offers these sentiments for a happy life:
Accept people as they are and not as I want them to be;
Don’t live other peoples’ lives for them;
Try everything many times before deciding whether or not I like it.
The book may be purchased online at:
http://www.rossendalebooks.co.uk/3_seebooks.htm or at
http://www.lulu.com/content/2791550
Further information can be found at http://stores.lulu.com/rossendalebooks
Chris Green’s next book is A Portrait of The Autist as a Young Man, which is due out in 1st October 2009 and is in aid of the National Autistic Society.
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