Jim Keeble available for author events

Jim Keeble is an acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. He is currently working on the BBC series Silent Witness. His new novel The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles is about the impossibility of being a modern dad and the pressure of the 'have-it-all' society.
For more information about this book, you can click on:
http://www.almabooks.com/the-happy-numbers-of-julius-miles-p-387-book.html
To set up an event with Jim please contact eminervini@almabooks.com

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Danny Miller available for events

The second book in the Vince Treadwell series, The Gilded Edge follows the straight-laced yet ambitious and handsome Detective Vince Treadwell. He is sent to investigate the seemingly unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia and a young black nurse from the wrong side of town. We follow Treadwell to the illegal drinking dens of Notting Hill run by self-styled Black Power leader, Michael X; the nightclubs of Soho owned by the legendary gangster, Billy Hill; and the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square, where the blue-bloods and power players of England gamble thousands on their turn of a card. But as Vince Treadwell digs deeper he finds himself not only embroiled with a beautiful society girl, Isabel Saxmore-Blaine, but a world of espionage and corruption where the underworld mixes easily with the aristocracy, and no one is innocent.

jamie@constablerobinson.com

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DJ Taylor available for events

Autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job collecting rents in Soho, but friendly Mr Samuelson is employing him front-of-house in the Toreador nightclub. Even his melancholy love-life is looking up, thanks to a chance encounter with the alluring Gladys, enigmatic inhabitant of the Meard Street second-floor back.
On the other hand, Soho looks an increasingly dangerous place in which to be at large. Not only are the Mosley's Blackshirts on the prowl, but somebody is raiding the dirty bookshops and smashing nightclub windows in a quest for moral decency. Fetched up in a police cell in West End Central after and unfortunate incident outside the Toreador, and coerced into undercover work by the mysterious Inspector Haversham, James finds himself infiltrating the Blackshirt's Chelsea HQ.

Contact jamie@constablerobinson.com

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Brilliance by Anthony McCarten

Brilliance deals with the life of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who - short of money - is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the 'world's banker'. He accepts Morgan's offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping him change the way the world does business. In the process, Edison sees himself descend from being a godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit in the invention of the electric chair. This book is very topical and chimes in with the Wall Street and St Paul's anti-capitalist 'occupy movement'.

Email Elisabetta Minervini (eminervini@almabooks.com) if you are interested in proofs for your reading group (Only 8 sets of 5 available) or if you would like Anthony to visit your library.

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Authors Wanted!!

Cambridgeshire Libraries is busy planning our author events for 2012 and we are now looking for available authors for events from February to April 2012.

Events to be held in the following libraries:

Cambridge Central
Chatteris
Yaxley
Whittlesey
Ramsey
St. Neots
St. Ives
Wisbech
Ely
Huntingdon
March

If you are interested in any of these locations - or other library venues in Cambridgeshire for author events please contact James Nicol - Adult Stock & promotrions Manager - in the first instance.

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Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait

Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

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The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell

The second book in the thrilling Magical Detectives series is out this month. Author, Brian Keaney, is available for author events.

In a locked museum in the middle of the night a thief appears from nowhere, steals a priceless clay tablet from Ancient Babylon and then disappears. In the village of Harford a senior British diplomat is found strangled in his bed. And in the sleepy little town of Bridlington Chawley an internationally-famous hypnotist knocks on the door of Spinoza's Second-Hand Bookshop.

What is the connection between these three events? That's the mystery that the Magical Detectives have to solve.

The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell is the second book in the Magical Detective Agency series. The first book has been chosen for the Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge

For more information, or to orgnise an event, please contact Sarah Bennett

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Author available: Trilby Kent, "Smoke Portrait"

Trilby Kent, author of Smoke Portrait is available for events. Smoke Portrait is a universal story of love, loss and appearances.

A young woman writes letters to a prison inmate abroad as a charitable task - these letters, however, get misdirected to a teenager who pretends to be the prisoner and who has a very troubled situation at home. This is the start of a romantic friendship between the correspondents where each one wants the other one to believe they are someone else - a correspondence which will help them through some of the most challenging years of the past century.

To set up an event with Trilby please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info on Trilby and her new book, please visit
http://www.almabooks.com/smoke-portrait-p-359-book.html

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Author available: Lindsay Clarke, The Water Theatre

September and October 2010

Lindsay Clarke is available to talk about his new book, The Water Theatre, "a powerful story of loyalty and loss, of betrayal and reconciliation." This is his first literary novel after the Chymical Wedding, winner of the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989.

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