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As of March 2008 Diggory Press and its owner-director Mrs Rosalind Franklin are being sued in the British Courts by numerous authors, for fraud, theft, and other abuses of the client-publisher relationship. Mrs Franklin and her company was the subject of a recent article by Private Eye Magazine entitled 'Diggory Pokery'. Prospective authors are therefore very strongly advised to steer clear of Mrs Franklin or any of her operations, including exposure Publishing, Meadow Books, Kingdom Come Publishing etc..
Diggory Press is a publishing company located in Liskeard, Cornwall, UK, with an office in Goodyear, Arizona. It was established by Rosalind Franklin and Nigel Franklin in 2005, and was founded out of Meadow Books of Burgess Hill, West Sussex (est. 1990).
Diggory is mainly concentrates on Cornish books, nursing books including nursing history, military books, and Christian books of a reformed and evangelical perspective. As at July 2007, Diggory Press has over 150 titles including reprints of Christian works by Jonathan Edwards, John Bunyan, Andrew Murray, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Catherine Booth, William Booth, Richard Sibbes, John Flavel, Charles Spurgeon Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Samuel Zwemer, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (aka Woodbine Willie), and John Owen, nursing works by Florence Nightingale and Western books by Karl May.
It also has a self-publishing arm to make book publishing and ebook publishing an option for authors from all over the world. Its self-publishing imprints are called Kingdom Come Publishing, which targets the Christian book market, and Exposure Publishing, which publishes book in almost every genre and by authors scattered across the globe and from a wide variety of backgrounds. Exposure has around 800 titles, including an environmental book by the Member of Parliament, Bill Wiggin, Derek Stringer of Good News Broadcasting, and a former band-member of Procol Harum, and in addition helps print and distribute works for many other publishers including Reachout Trust.
In 2007 Exposure Publishing was the first British publisher to publish a book in Punjabi by the author Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon. It has also published books in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, French, and Spanish.
