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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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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Coventry Book Festival ( title tbc)

11-16 June 2012

Coventry's first book festival will inspire reading and creative writing in the whole community. Events for adults, teenagers and children will be held in schools and community venues throughout the week culminating in large celebration event on Saturday 16th June. The Inspiration Book Awards ceremony will be on June 13th so there is an opportunity for winning authors (winners announced on Feb 15th) attending that to do other events while in Coventry. Please note that the date coincides with Birmingham Young Reader's festival schools week and so there is the opportunity for authors to do both festivals in one trip to the West Midlands! Please contact me as soon as possible with your suggestions to ensure you do not miss this cost effective opportunity

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Charlie Fletcher - Far Rockaway

Charlie Fletcher, author of the Stoneheart Trilogy, is available for school and library events to promote his latest book, Far Rockaway, in the West Country.

Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor made a pact that one day, just for the hell of it, they'd take the subway and stay on the A-train until the very end of the line where the last narrow spit of land runs out into the ocean at Far Rockaway. This isn't that day.

On the first page Cat is knocked down by a speeding fire truck whilst crossing 55th St and 3rd Ave in Central Manhattan. She wakes up in a world made from all the books her grandfather used to read to her, peopled by some of the most memorable heroes of classic adventure fiction, brought vividly back to life. Cat must earn their friendship and help as she begins an odyssey and epic quest to find the mythic Castle at the World's End. And the name of that distant, mythic, wave-tumbled fastness? It is, of course, the castle of Far Rockaway ...

If you enjoy reading good books - swashbuckling adventures with sword fights and pirates - then Far Rockaway is the book for you. Join Cat as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime!

To set up an event, please contact Corinne Gotch at corinne.gotch@hachettechildrens.co.uk

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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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Circus skills workshop

Circus fun at Walsall libraries. Juggling, stilt walking and plate spinning are among the circus skills children can have a go at alongside Boo Boo The Clown's Entertainment on Tuesday 2nd August at Streetly Library, Blackwood Road, and Pheasey Library, Collingwood Drive, Walsall. Both events are free and run from 11.00am - 12.30pm at Pheasey Library and 2.00pm - 3.30pm at Streetly Library.

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Circus skills workshop

All the fun of the circus will be coming to Brownhills and Walsall Wood Libraries in Walsall on Wednesday 27th July with youngsters able to have a go at everything from juggling to stilt walking and plate spinning.

Tymoni from Boo Boo The Clown's Entertainments will be at Brownhills Library, Chester Road North, Walsall at 11.00am - 12.30 and at Walsall Wood Library, Coppice Road, Walsall, at 2.00pm - 3.30pm. Both events are free.

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Circus skills workshop in Walsall

Summer Reading Challenge circus skills workshop at Brownhills Library, Parkview Centre, Brownhills, Walsall, on Wednesday 27th July, 11.00am - 12.30pm. Children can learn juggling, stilt walking, diablo and plate spinning. Tel: 01922 650730 to book a place.

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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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Circus skills workshop

To celebrate the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge, Boo Boo The Clown's Entertainments will be at Aldridge Library, Rookery Lane, Walsall, on Saturday 16th July, 10.00am - 12noon. Children can learn skills such as juggling, stilt walking, diablo and plate spinning. Contact 01922 655569

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Meet Ally Kennen at the launch of her new book, Quarry!

5 February

Drop in to Waterstone's in Taunton and meet local author Ally Kennen, and hear her talk about her brand new Teen Chiller, QUARRY!

Saturday 5th February
2pm to 4pm

Waterstone's Taunton
The County Hotel, East Street
Taunton TA1 3LU

For more information, please contact Catherine Alport

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Events available with debut author Jenny Smith!

Diary of a Parent Trainer is Jenny Smith's brilliant debut novel about Katie Sutton and her dysfunctional extended family. Katie thinks she has discovered the key to getting the best out of your parent, and has even written a helpful guide, detailing her findings ... but Katie's methods don't always go to plan - with hilarious consequences!

In her events, Jenny will talk about Diary of a Parent Trainer, how she got into writing and the inspiration behind her work. Jenny is happy to talk to reading groups, or audiences of up to 40. Perfect for audiences aged 10+. Jenny is based in Oxfordshire.

If interested, please contact Catherine Alport at Scholastic.

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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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