Martin Litherland: 7 books

The author Martin Litherland writes these poems from thoughts, feelings and memories conjured up from his real-life experiences as a geologist.Both rocks and local people form a romantic backdrop to Martin’s poems set in various remote parts of the world. Read of schoolboy inspiration in...

The legend of lost treasure of the last Inca king, Atahualpa, is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Martin Litherland was summoned to explore this region and these poems, linking narrative and photos tell the story, as he and his companions tackle this essentially unexplored...

We’ve all heard of the novel The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle, but did you know this land really exists? The novel was based on Col. Percy Fawcett’s discovery, in 1908, of the Huanchaca plateau in the heart of the Amazon basin. Would you have liked to explore and map this legendary plateau?...

What would Richard III feel about his resting place beneath a car park and his subsequent exhumation? What actually happened to the Princes in the Tower? And was Richard really the dastardly character portrayed by Shakespeare? These issues and more are discussed in these intriguing poems about the...

The poet of Richard III and Lost World now recounts his early memories with a linking narrative and many original photographs. Read of a magical trip to Cowdray Park and an idyllic childhood in the Haslemere countryside; of the death of the King, and naughty verses taught to him at school; of life...

The black Eve is the real Eve: the mitochondrial Eve: she who is the mother of us all, no matter our race or creed. Apart from paying homage to her, these poems manifest other paradoxes of religion, evolution and humanity. They reflect the modern thinking person who, whilst having read all the evidence against traditional religion, would still ‘like to see his Mum again.’

These three short stories are about life-changing moments in the lives of three fairly flawed and unheroic characters. There is our Steve, lacking self-esteem, but finding Atahualpa’s Treasure in the Andes of Ecuador; there is our sex-bomb Freda with her Damascene moment in York Minster; and, finally,...