I have been trying to go through all the products and make sure everything is correct and in order. If you do have any questions please do get in touch and let me know.
I do work during the week and so it may sometimes take me a little time to get back to you. At the moment I'm either up scaffolding restoring old buildings or researching women in local history. I have been working with a fab gallery called Flaming Lady of Hay. You can see their website here: flaminglady.com
Mari
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Jasper has produced the following to mark the day...
There are a few other books that you will see are marked as 'Sold Out' at the moment - this is because they are being reprinted by the publishers and we are awaiting their delivery. Some of them are taking a while so we didn't want anyone waiting in vain and decided to mark them as unavailable for the moment. Hopefully they will be back up on the shopfront soon.
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We are still operating at Goliath Towers during Covid-19 but are juggling orders with only being able to travel short distances, home schooling the Goliath kids and looking after Granny Goliath who is now 93! Apologies if we are a bit late with orders - we will get to you.
Our lovely printers at Old Forest Arts have said that they will print Fiction Island posters this weekend so if you have ordered a poster and it has not arrived yet it should be with you soon. Very sorry if you ordered back in April. We know it's a long wait - but we hope you understand.
Jasper is gearing up for the release of The Constant Rabbit which comes out next month. We will not be selling hardbacks as Independent booksellers need your purchases so much right now. Keep an eye on jasperfforde.com for updates and fun stuff.
Keep safe and stay well
Goliath
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They are a simple white mug with the Kazam logo - Mystical Arts Management
Also added are a limited number of USA paperbacks of "The Last Dragonslayer"
Once these are gone we will not be getting any more in - so grab one now!
Also in the news....
Jasper is putting the finishing touches to "The Eye of Zoltar" - more on that soon.
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They are available in both black and navy blue and in Mens and Ladies sizes
Here at Goliath we have been busy and just mailed out a Mailchimp newsletter about the new t shirts. Did you know that you can now download a QR code for everything on the planet! This seems so blatantly Goliathesque.
Here's the QR code for the newsletter:
We are adding a ladies fitted range as well as the normal straight T Shirt option. So there wil be a choice of Ladies in Large, Medium, Small and Extra Small.
These should be ready in a couple of weeks and we have altered the permissions on the shop so that you can pre-order them now for shipping in late July.
However the weather has been getting better and the days are getting longer (if only there were a few more hours)
Unfortunately the biggest news has been the raise in postal prices in the UK. This happens every April, but this year there was a complete overhaul in the parcel sending system and it is now rather more complex and quite a bit more expensive. We can only apologise.
It is less expensive if you are buying from overseas to have it shipped by "Surface" - but please remember that this will take longer. In the case of Australia, sometimes up to 12 weeks!
We are spending today dressed up as Welsh Ladies and Daffodils to celebrate our national day and will be partaking in a big bowl of cawl for lunch with leeks for pudding.
After that a spot of Twmpath dancing...
Hwyl pawb
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And it is available both short and LONG sleeved!
This is the first time we have ventured into the longer sleeved garment and hope you like it.
We are also now offering ladies fit as well as the usual mens. The ladies fit is just slightly more shaped (measurements are on the relevant pages)
The colour is a lovely dusty dark grey - called Charcoal apparently.
We have just added a new item - "The Song of the Quarkbeast" in hardback
Goliath doesn't normally sell hardback books, but we have a limited offer of 100 copies of the hardback with a special postcard which will only be available with this book when purchased from Goliath.
So don't miss the chance...
Numbered individually
To fit mount aperture of 12 x 10 inches
(35.5 x25.5 cm)
High Quality Giclee print
Watercolour style paper
Comes with stamp of authenticity on back and signed by Jasper
Sent in cardboard tube
Shades of Grey peril Infoganda number 1 - Lime
Click here to see on YouTube
More to follow...
We had quite a few requests for a print to be available as the map proved pretty popular. Sara from Boston even painted her bureau with her own version -
"When One of Our Thursdays is Missing came out last month, I read it right away, and I thought the concept and layout of Fiction Island was so clever. In my room is a bureau made of unfinished wood that I draw on with paint-markers from time to time. One day shortly after completing TN-6, I noticed a glaringly empty space on said bureau. My first thought was "You know what would go great there? A scale map of Fiction Island!" So I made it so. It took probably about 2 1/2 hours, over the course of about 5 days, but it was totally worth it!"
And here it is:
Jasper is still away on tour in the States, but will be back on Nov 2nd, when he will sign and dedicate the pile of ordered books that await his return....
However none of these can be signed or dedicated until Jasper returns from his month long tour of the States - so the first week of November. You can order but there will be delay if you would like dedications.
Toast T Shirts are now on sale - as are a limited number of NCD t shirts in ladies extra small.
I would also like to add that the Goliath main hub computer is now well again and we have sent the carrier pigeon home.
Other than that...here's a photo from Sunday morning....
Mari
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The pigeons are very amenable and will dutifully carry messages to our hub computer as long as the grain is forthcoming.
So please excuse us if things are a little slow. We should be back to full speed very shortly.
We are also having a few problems getting our sticky mitts on copies of First Among Sequels with the bus on the cover. A delivery arrived, but they were the wrong covers! So apologies if you are awaiting an order. We will get them to you as soon as possible.
The shop is now fully live and we have had our first order! Congratulations to Amanda who wins a mystery gift for being our very first Shopify customer.
We are having a few technical issues - mainly due to Goliath being a bit silly on the technical front and the fact that a delivery of JurisFiction t shirts is not quite ready. Hopefully they will be ready to ship out next week - so if you order a JurisFiction T please be patient - it won't be long.
We have also persuaded Jasper to model his Shades of Grey jacket for the site which can be seen in the "other stuff" category
A contact link has also been found and added to the bottom of the site, so if you want to get in touch it's a little easier now!
Time for a congratulatory cup of tea (in an Acme mug of course)
OK - I have just had word from Jasper that there is an interest in a SpecOps T Shirt in black. Hmmm. Sounds good to me. We are just investigating - will let you know the outcome.
Also interest in more ladies sizes. This is a very good point. I will definitely make more sizes available. Any t shirts printed from now on will have more womens sizes than just XS.
All will be updated very soon.
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