Mary Pearce
Linguistics consultant & artist
About the author
Dr. Mary Pearce is a linguistics consultant, specializing in phonology and orthography, who works with a faith-based charity. She has spent many years researching, teaching and translating in Africa.
She is now UK based as she has health challenges, including Parkinson’s, that slow her down, but she is determined to keep smiling and enjoying life. She still finds enough energy to play music in a band and paint for pleasure. She particularly enjoys painting lions.
Jeremiah Duckling
by Mary Pearce and Josephine Lay
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-913195-37-3
Published by Black Eyes – 14th April 2026
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Josephine Lay
Josephine Lay is a poet and writer living in Gloucester. She has a BA (Hons) and a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. She has published a collection of short stories, Saffron Tones (2017), and a novel, Creating Stanley (2022).
As a poet Josephine has published three collections, Inside Reality (2018), Unravelling (2019) and A Quietus (2021).
Josephine was Director of Ops for the Gloucestershire Poetry Society from January 2020 till December 2022. When lockdowns struck, she started and hosted the Society’s online, monthly event ‘Crafty Crows’. Josephine also runs live poetry events and recently started Poetry Cafes in Cheltenham and Gloucester Libraries.
Josephine is editor for Black Eyes Publishing UK and is presently working on her fourth poetry collection, A kind of alchemy.
All profits from this book will be donated to,
A Rocha UK
On behalf of Mary Pearce
A Rocha UK is a Christian charity working to equip Christians and churches to protect and restore the environment – for God, nature and all people. We aim to inspire individuals and families, equip churches and church leaders, build partnerships and manage land for nature and people.
In the face of accelerating climate change and species loss, we need more than ever to take action to protect and care for nature today.