The Westerman Yarns: A Westerman Exhibition

Saturday, June 22, 2013

A Westerman Exhibition

The Westerman Yarns have been invited to stage an exhibition as part of the fifth Havant Literary Festival, a celebration of the written and spoken word. The festival takes place during the first ten days of October. Please watch the festival web site for details.

http://www.havantlitfest.org.uk

Sponsorship Invitation

As this is our first public exhibition we are keen to ensure a quality presentation and are seeking sponsorship for the production of twelve, full colour, exhibition panels. This could be one sole sponsor or several sponsors contributing a share. All sponsors will be invited to have their logo at the lower edge of each panel. For further information, please email westermanyarns@gmail.com

The Westerman Yarns

Percy F Westerman was born in Portsmouth in 1876 and for a time attended Portsmouth Grammar School. He worked as an Admiralty Clerk in the Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, and whilst there he began to write contributions for yachting magazines and other periodicals

At the age of 31 he began writing adventure books for children and during a fifty year writing career, he wrote more than 170 books. In the 1930s he was voted the most popular boys' author in a Daily Sketch poll conducted through public libraries.

His son John F C Westerman went on to write another 30 books in a similar style.

‘Westerman’ books are now sought after by collectors around the world.
If you are interested in learning more about Percy Westerman, please contact me as there are several different themed talks about him, his books and his love of sailing.