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Island Life - June/July 2010
Island Life - a
heavyweight
SUCCESS!
Island Life is happy to announce that
have over 180 Island outlets which
from our advertisers is that readers
Red Funnel is now responsible for
include newsagents, farm shops,
don’t like parting with their copy of
bringing the printed magazine over
doctors, dentists, hairdressers and local
Island Life, keeping it like a souvenir:
to the Island. As you can see from
shops, not forgetting the Hovertravel
which makes it, in their view, the best
the photo above there are a lot of
terminal both here on the Island and in
value advertising on the Isle of Wight.
magazines to bring back. In fact the last
Southsea.
We will continue to do our best and
issue, April/May, amounted to 18 tons
We are very proud to have the biggest
ensure you have a great local read
of paper. This issue will amount to over
circulation of any 'Life' magazine on the
every two months. I would like to
22 tons of paper, over 20 pallets.
South Coast. To ensure the magazine is
thank all our advertisers for their long
delivered efficiently, my wife Tanya and
term support, and the owners of our
It's simple, there is such a huge demand
I still to this day deliver the magazine
outlets who kindly stock the magazine.
for the magazine which means we
personally to our outlets, just as we
Not forgetting, also, our small team of
never have returns! For instance we
did when we first published Island Life.
writers who have worked so hard over
place over 5,000 copies in Marks &
Unlike the mainland 'Life' magazines
the last five years. Finally we would like
Spencer with a further 5,000 going
'Island Life' is free of charge.
to thank our readers for their continued
You may ask why we print so many?
into Tesco in Ryde. In addition we
support.
The most frequent comment we hear
Cruel twists from Island author
A novel, set firmly and recognisably on
her elderly mother and was hoping to
way love and
the Isle of Wight, and penned by Island
pursue interests now she is unshackled.
desire changes
Life’s own historian Jan Toms, (writing
But life, as portrayed by Ms Toms, isn’t
with the
as Janet Mary Tomson) has just been
like that. A helpful bit of gardening
advancement
published.
by Alex, her former lover’s son, reveals
of years
The Cruellest Month is an intriguing
a buried corpse: quite a long-dead
means there’s
and many faceted story about the
one, but why would the body of a
something in
loves and aspirations of a middle-aged
17th-century pregnant African be
this book for
woman who has spent her life
found in an Isle of Wight garden?
everyone.
apparently quietly in the same Island
With her expert historian’s eye, the
village. But her past, in the shape of
novelist weaves real events of the
Jan’s 11th novel, writing as Janet Mary
a lover from her teen years, comes
past throughout the twisty plot. The
Tomson, published by Robert Hale.
back to complicate her life just as she
complex relationships, hopes raised and
Available from Waterstones, Amazon,
is freed from the burden of caring for
dashed, and the skilled portrayal of the
and www.halebooks.com, £18.99.
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