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My poetry, memoir, short and long fiction have all been published by independent presses. For more about me, please visit my About page and for details of my books, please visit Books. You can also read the opening pages of my memoir-in-progress, Lost Children on the Work in Progress page.
Latest book
Ted the Shed, published in April 2024 by Ings Press, is a memoir about sharing an allotment for ten years with a resourceful, pathologically independent 87 year old man – my Dad. The book started life as a blog called Reluctant Gardener (mainly as therapy for me!) People enjoyed reading it, so after Dad’s death aged 96, I pulled it together into a book. Cartoonist Janis Goodman illustrated it.
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Latest posts
Garden Window
Read more: Garden WindowTed the Shed is sitting in very good company this week in a display of gardening books in The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. Do pop in if you’re local! And if not, Ted the Shed is still available to order from my website at www.mandysutter.com
Ted at York Gate Garden
Read more: Ted at York Gate GardenTed the Shed is now available to buy at the gift shop at York Gate Garden, Adel, Leeds. It’s a place close to my heart, perhaps because there is a (modest) echo with Ted the Shed, the story of our own family gardening project. York Gate Garden was created between 1951 and 1994 by one…
