Publishing the books that you want to read.
I started writing when I was nine years old. I received my first rejection slip at eighteen. I had my first book published at fifty three. This is the story of my meteoric rise to stardom. My primary school teacher opined that I was, ‘good at English composition,’ and I knew that I enjoyed writing…
Responding to the interest generated by the, “Passport Portraits of Yesteryear”, posts on his blog, Martin Lloyd has now published an A4 album of black and white passport photographs drawn from his collection of historic passports. The images date from a time before regulations were imposed on how to pose for a photograph and added…
MARTIN LLOYD’S LONG AWAITED BOOK AT LAST PUBLISHED.Activity at Queen Anne’s Fan has, perforce, been affected by the Corona virus but Martin Lloyd has now published the book which had been so long in gestation – France at the Fringes, a wander along the borders of France.
Our author Martin Lloyd, writer of The Passport, the History of Man’s Most Travelled Document and Neither Civil nor Servant, Twenty Fours Years in the Immigration Service, was invited to talk at the Felixstowe Book Festival. He has just finished his talk and it was a sellout. Fifteen extra chairs had to be brought in to the lecture room…
The Felixstowe Book Festival will take place 29-30 June 2019 and authors such as Alison Weir and James Runcie will be hoping to raise their profile when they appear at the same venue as Queen Anne’s Fan author, Martin Lloyd. Come to the Furneaux Suite at the Orwell Hotel in Felixstowe at 10.15 on the Saturday morning…
Martin Lloyd’s expertise and knowledge was called upon today by the Worshipful Company of World Traders who made an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of the greatest number of different nationalities all singing the same song at the same time. It was not his singing voice that they required; they needed somebody who…
The controversial decision to award the contract to print the new British ‘blue’ passport to a Franco-Dutch company prompted BBC News to call in Martin Lloyd to be interviewed ‘live’ at New Broadcasting House… with only three hours notice.The anchor man, Ben Brown, was fascinated by the antique passports which Martin had brought with him,…
The Impetus Turn has just been published. Set in Bangladesh in the 1980s it tells the story of how a naïve engineer sent out to work in the country copes with the corruption and relationships inwhich he becomes embroiled. 384pp, price: £12 ISBN: 9780 9573 63953
The Home Office announced today that when the present passport contract expired, the new British passport would have a blue cover. They had warned the Media the day before that they would be making an announcement but would not divulge its content. The media companies all converged on Martin Lloyd and fought for his time….
Martin Lloyd’s new book, Fire, Smoke and Iron – Spanish Artists and the Bilbao Iron Industry is now published. This week he travelled to Spain to deliver a stock of books to the Rialia Museum of Industry in Portugalete in thanks for them granting him permission to photograph the paintings in their museum to use as illustrations in his…