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February 2008 Newsletter

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Go Slow England - blog, author tour dates and free samples
Featured properties - British Hotels for Valentine's day and Easter
Survey and feedback
Special Offer - British Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers
Special Offer - Rude Health Organic Foods

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Go Slow England - blog, author tour dates and free samples

Welcome to the first newsletter of the year from Alastair Sawday Publishing. Our exciting news is that Go Slow England will be released next month. Written by Alastair himself, Go Slow England is all about taking your foot off the pedal (unless that pedal happens to be on a bicycle). Featuring some of England's most exquisite B&Bs, hotels and pubs, the book is a celebration of the places and people who take their time to enjoy life at its most enriching.
To mark the publication of this glorious book we have created a blog for you to visit and leave comments on. This blog will be regularly updated with news, sample pages and fun articles so bookmark

http://goslowengland.wordpress.com

The blog has:

Alastair's presentation and book signing dates
A downloads page for free samples
Pre-registration for a 45% discount special offer code
A poll on the best place in England to 'go slow'
...and more!

If you love our Special Places to Stay series then you are going to be ecstatic about Go Slow England!

 

Featured properties - British Hotels for Valentine's day and Easter

At Sawday's we pride ourselves on using inspiring and interesting language when describing the properties in our books. Alastair himself ensures that we avoid using clichés or overused words. Being a curmudgeonly sort, one of his pet hates is describing places as 'romantic', which makes it very hard for us to promote places we think are ideal for Valentine's day. So instead here are three places from our British Hotels & Inns book that are ideal for a tender, seductive, sensuous, relaxing, intimate and indulgent night or two away for you and your significant other:

Linthwaite House Hotel & Restaurant

Linthwaite is a grand Lakeland country house run in informal style. Everything is a treat: wonderful bedrooms, gorgeous interiors, glorious food and attentive staff.

Click here to read the full entry

Wallett's Court Country House Hotel & Spa

Gorgeous architectural features; ancient red-brick walls in the drawing room, an oak staircase with worn, shallow steps in the hall and a huge log fire on chilly days.

Click here to read the full entry

Lord Poulett Arms

Part pub, part country house, with walls painted in reds and greens and old rugs covering flagged floors, the Lord Poulett gives a glimpse of a 21st-century dream local, where classical design fuses with earthy rusticity.

Click here to read the full entry

 

Survey and feedback

Thank you to everybody who took the time before Christmas to complete our survey and congratulations to the people who won one of our Special Places to Stay books. We won't bore you with a whole pile of stats and figures from the survey but the overall impression we got from the results is that you are basically happy with how we are doing things! But many of you also took the time to write to us about other ideas for books you'd like to see in the future. This feedback is absolutely invaluable to us so thank you again.

Many of you gave us feedback both about our existing places and new discoveries. This sort of thing is fantastic so keep it coming!

To leave feedback on one of the places in our book click here to look up the place, make sure you are logged in and then click on the "Tell us about your stay here" link under the "Next Steps" heading.

If you want to recommend a place to us then please click here

For a full list of contact options and information click here

 

Special Offer - British Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers

At the Old Farmyard the daffodils are poking their heads through sodden soil. After the wettest of wet winters, spring approaches. New life, new beginnings and time to discover some of the glorious gardens scattered around Britain. Why not order a copy of our British Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers?

Modern gardens, classical gardens, wild, tamed, lush and spare - our book has them all, along with exceptional beds and memorable breakfasts. As an extra incentive we're offering it at half price (plus p&p charges) if you order it from our website before 9 March 2008.
To order click here, place the book into your book basket and use the special offer code FebGBB when prompted.

 

Special Offer - Rude Health Organic Foods

Our friends at Rude Health have put together another offer especially for Sawday's readers - anybody who places an order from Rude Health during February and March will automatically get a free bag of delicious Multi Flakes (RRP £2.95). All you need to do is go the Rude Health website at www.rudehealth.com and add SAWDAYS in the offer code section when placing your order.
And if that's not enough then Rude Health are also giving away free stylish and useful jute bags (RRP £2.95) with every order over £30 (excluding p&p).
 

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