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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James Craig available for events

Jake Haggar, barely six years old has been kidnapped by his father who is threatening to sell the boy to a child trafficking ring. Carlyle has to get him back. It's not his case but it is his problem- it was his fault Jake was taken in the first place.
Meanwhile, Carlyle has his own caseload to deal with including the murder of Agatha Mills. Her husband, Henry has been arrested for her murder but his explanation is so outlandish that Carlyle wonders if it may just be true. Agatha is the sister of William Pettigrew, a priest killed in Chile during the fascist coup in 1973 and after 30 years of campaigning, and was about to see his killer brought to justice.

Carlyle is also asked to help television reporter Rosanna Snowdon, who fears she is being stalked by a demented fan.

Contact: jamie@constablerobinson.com

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An evening with Heather Peace

Heather Peace talks about her novel All To Play For. It's time to tell our story, starting when my new friends and colleagues-to-be were all as fresh, young and wet behind the ears as I was myself. When our hearts were open, and our integrity was still intact.
Rhiannon dreams of joining the largest broadcaster in the world: the BBC. And so begins a life of highs, lows, and absurd experiences for five ambitious young people, all keen to make it in the increasingly commercial world of television.
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Leisure_and_Culture/Libraries/Library_facilities_incl_location_opening_hours/118251_Author_and_literary_events.asp

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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.

Continue reading here - http://www.almabooks.com/brilliance-p-385-book.html

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Craig Taylor available for events

Londoners is an extraordinary group portrait of London today. This is no guide book to the sights of London. This is about the people, not the places and these are their stories, as witnessed by Canadian Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer who became fascinated by the question 'what kind of person ended up in London'.

Craig is available for features and interviews and can talk about the importance of oral history, London's markets and riots

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Sarah Moss available for events in South West England

The critically accalimed novelist sarah Moss will be available for lilbrary events in the south west of England to coincide with paperback publication of Night Waking in April 2012.

'Tartly humorous, sad and clever ... a passionately written meditation on motherhood, with all the monotony, desperation and visceral feelings faithfully recorded' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

'Highly enjoyable... The upbeat conclusion to this blend of middle-class satire, historical fiction and campus novel does not soften Moss's withering take on sexism and her stark view of motherhood' Daily Telegraph

'Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals' Times

kpike@granta.com

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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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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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Lynn Shepherd author of Tom-All-Alone's

Lynn Shepherd is the author of the captivating Tom-All-Alone's, a reimagining of Dickens masterpiece and first English detective story- Bleak House. With the bicentenary of Dickens birth on the 7 February, Lynn is available for talks, workshops, reading group sessions and readers' days.

Tom-All-Alone's aims to craft something that would not only be a compelling 'literary murder mystery' in its own right, but also a creative response to the events and themes of Dickens' text. Tom-All-Alone's was actually the original title of Dickens Bleak House.

The story of Tom-All-Alone's runs parallel to Dickens, and his characters populate her own literary landscape, whether as principal protagonists, like the lawyer Tulkinghorn and Inspector Bucket, or mere bystanders seen or overheard in London's crowded dining-houses, pubs, and omnibuses. Through the eyes of her young detective, Charles Maddox, we see these familiar episodes and characters from a new angle, and find answers to questions that Bleak House left unanswered.

if you would like Lynn to visit your library please contact Emily Burns: emily@constablerobinson.com.

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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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Andy Seed - Yorkshire author of All Teachers Great and Small - available for events

Andy Seed has crystallised his experiences as a primary school teacher in the Yorkshire Dales into the memoir All Teachers Great and Small.

Andy is an experienced public speaker and would like to visit libraries in the Yorkshire region (and beyond) to tell readers about his brilliant memoir.

Andy's entertaining talks encompass many facets:
• the nostalgic real life events which feature in his book
• the challenges of writing memoirs
• How he got published and top tips for aspiring authors

Please contact maura.brickell@headline.co.uk for details.

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Across the Universe by Beth Revis

March 2011

DO YOU WANT TO DISCOVER

A NEW WORLD 300 YEARS AWAY
A MURDER MYSTERY IN SPACE
A LOVE OUT OF TIME . . .
THEY'RE SO CLOSE, BUT STILL SO FAR AWAY . . .

Follow Amy and Elder's thrilling journey - embark on your own adventure Across the Universe.

Guarantee your spot on board the spaceship 'Godspeed' by joining us at the UK Facebook fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Across-...

Read the book. Feel the romance. Live the experience at
http://www.acrosstheuniversebook.com/

And check out the book trailer on YouTube HERE.

Across the Universe publishes on 3.3.11

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Live chat with Sarra Manning, author of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

24 February 2011

Join Sarra Manning live in our next next online chat to discuss her book YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME:
http://www.sarramanning.co.uk

Register at following URL to take part and share your views with other reading groups:
http://www.rchatrandom.co.uk/

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Louise Welsh

18 January

Louise Welsh is the award-winning author of The Bullet Trick and The Cutting Room.

Her new novel, Naming the Bones, sees academic Murray Watson on a quest to find the truth behind long-dead writer Archie Lunan. Loaded with Welsh's trademark wit, insight and gothic charisma, this adventure novel weaves the lives of Murray and Archie together in a tale of literature, obsession and dark magic.

For more information, please contact Anna Frame

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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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Ciaran Murtagh available for author events

Ciaran Murtagh is the author fo four books for children aged 6 and over published by Piccadilly Press - Dinopants, Dinopoo, Dinoburps and Dinoball.

As well as writing children's books and high profile children's TV programmes, Ciaran is a brilliant and very funny performer and is keen to get out and about talking to children in schools, libraries and bookshops.

Visit www.ciaranmurtagh.com for more information.

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Mo-Bot High creator Neill Cameron available for events

October 2010 onwards

Neill Cameron, creator of the Giant Robot Action Schoolgirl Comedy epic Mo-Bot High, is available for events with children aged 7-12 for a HOW TO MAKE (AWESOME) COMICS WORKSHOP (max 30) and for an ILLUSTRATED TALK for larger audiences of ages 12+

Mo-Bot High is published by David Fickling Books as part of the brilliant Comic Book Library.

To set up an event with Neill please contact neill@neillcameron.com and for more info on him and Mo-Bot High please visit: http://www.neillcameron.com

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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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Monkey Nuts - authors available for events

September 2010 onwards

The Etherington Brothers, creators of the wonderful and whacky Monkey Nuts, are available for events with boys and girls age 8+ and are happy to speak to audiences from 10-200.

Monkey Nuts is published by David Fickling Books as part of the brilliant Comic Book Library.

To set up an event with The Etheringtons please contact theetheringtonbrothers@hotmail.co.uk and for more info on them and Monkey Nuts please visit: http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com

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Author available - Melanie Welsh

Melanie Welsh, author of the magical 'Mistress of the Storm' published by David Fickling Books is available for events with boys and girls age 9+ and is happy to speak to audiences from 10-200.

The Bookseller described 'Mistress of the Storm' as 'A really gripping magical debut with a strong girl heroine.'

To set up an event with Melanie please contact melanie@veritygallant.co.uk and for more info on Melanie and the book please visit www.veritygallant.co.uk

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Author events available with Dinah Capparucci

Dinah Capparucci is the author of the brilliant Warning! series, published by Scholastic Children's Books, and is available for events with mixed audiences aged 7+.

Dinah's events are hilarious (she was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2008) and informative - best suited to audiences of 30-40 children.

If you are interested in an event with Dinah and want to find out more information about her and her books, contact Catherine on calport@scholastic.co.uk

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Author available: Danny Danziger, "We Are Soldiers"

September and October 2010

Danny Danziger is a celebrated interviewer and the author of 11 non-fiction titles. His previous Little, Brown book, The Year 1000, sold almost 130,000 copies. His long-running Sunday Times column 'Best of Times, Worst of Times' is the recipient of many award and accolades. When writing We Are Soldiers Danziger interviewed hundreds of soldiers in the British Army of all ranks, divisions and seniority, to uncover the reasons why men and women choose to be soldiers in the 21st century, giving a unique insight into the reality of modern warfare and what it means to fight for your country.

Contact: kirsteen.astor@littlebrown.co.uk

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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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Author available: Stephen Moss, The Bumper Book of Nature

15th May - 15th October

Stephen Moss is available to talk about his Bumper Book of Nature.

'This book deserves to be a bestseller' - BBC Wildlife

'Terrific, beautifully designed, inventive, creative and various. Bravo.' - Michael Morpurgo

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

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Author available: Annelise Freisenbruch, The First Lady Of Rome

August to December 2010

Annelise Freisenbruch is available to talk about her new book, The First Lady of Rome.

The first group biography in English of the imperial women of Rome - from an exciting young historian.

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

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Author available: Stuart Neville, Collusion

June - December 2010

Stuart Neville is available to talk about his new book, Collusion.

The brilliant follow-up to the debut thriller of 2009, The Twelve.

'This is some guy to watch out for in a dark alley.' - James Ellroy

Contact fmurphy@randomhouse.co.uk

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Author available: Adam O'Riordan, 'In The Flesh' (London)

20/05/10 - 31/12/10

Poet Adam O'Riordan is available to talk about his new collection (London only).

Confident, seductive and assured, this collection is an enthralling introduction to one of our most exciting new poets.

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, and educated at Oxford and London University, where he was awarded the inaugural Peters, Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize. In 2008 he was awarded an Eric Gregory Award and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. He lives in London.

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Author available: Allison Pearson, I Think I Love You

1st June - 31st December

Allison Pearson is available to talk about her new book, I Think I Love You.

From the No. 1 bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It: a hilarious and poignant story about a young girl who falls hopelessly in love with her teenage pin-up and some twenty years later, with her life in pieces around her, finally gets to meet him.

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M J Hyland available for events in Manchester

April onwards

This Is How was selected for the 2010 Orange longlist, and MJ Hyland was Booker-shortlisted in 2006 for Carry Me Down. This Is How takes you inside the claustrophobic mind of accidental murderer Patrick Oxtoby. As with all Hyland's books, the writing is sharp and incredibly tight, and the book will throw up a lot of questions.

'When you've been reading Hyland, other writers seem to lack integrity; they seem wedded to weak confabulations, whereas she aims straight for the truth and the heart.' - Hilary Mantel

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Author availble: Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat

May 2010 onwards

Mari Strachan is available to talk about her new book.

The Earth Hums in B Flat caused a media storm when it was released last year. Narrated by 12 year old Gwenni, living in a small Welsh village in the 1950s, it is a story of family secrets best left buried and the power of the imagination. Mari was the top Waterstone's New Voice, an Amazon Rising Star and one of the Independent's Rising Stars. The book was picked as a R4 Book at Bedtime, as one of Amazon's Top 10 Fiction titles of 2009, and shortlisted for both the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the USA's Indies Choice Book Awards 2010 Adult Debut Book of the Year (results for both next month). She has been immersed in books all her life, working as a librarian in academic, school, public, private and prison libraries. She has also been a book reviewer, researcher, translator, copy writer and web editor.

'The Earth Hums in B Flat is a richly evocative, warm but unsentimental tale of a child detective struggling to piece together clues about the lives around her. These lives, and the characters who live them, are so vividly drawn and Mari Strachan's careful unraveling of the secrets they hide is extremely compelling. I loved this novel.' - CATHERINE O'FLYNN

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Author available: Penny Rudge, Foolish Lessons in Life and Love

All 2010

Penny Rudge is available for small and medium-sized readings.

A synopsis of Foolish Lessons in life and Love

23 year-old Taras Krohe is wedged between the two women in his life: his Russian girlfriend, Katya, who is struggling to fund her way through college; and his overbearing Bukovinian mother. He is devoted to both women in different ways but then Katya leaves him for a ponytailed aesthete - and his mother, he realises, he will never be able to escape.

Ten years after an ominous scholarship took him to a top-ranking public school, the big-boned and loveable Taras and his mother now live in a small South London flat. Taras's father died, shortly before he was born, and Mrs. Krohe went on to inherit a curious benefactress in the form of Mrs. Bartlett.

But then Mrs. Bartlett passed away and her unnerving relatives arrived at the door. With eviction looming, the terminally easy-going Taras is forced to show his mother that he is a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's descent into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she is determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it is by no means certain who will come out on top . . .

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Author Available: Karen Campbell

All 2010

Karen Campbell is a police officer turned crime writer and is available for library events, reading group sessions and readers' days. She is happy to give solo talks, or take part in a panel event.

Karen lives in Glasgow and joined the Strathclyde Police in 1987, but after a career break to have her family, she applied to Glasgow University's Creative Writing programme. In 2003, Karen was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writer's Bursary. Her debut novel, The Twilight Time, was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was followed last year by After the Fire. Her third novel, Shadowplay, will be published in May 2010.

Visit Karen's website www.karencampbell.co.uk

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D.J. Taylor on At the Chime of a City Clock

March - December 2010

D.J. Taylor is available for library events and to speak to reading groups.

Set against a backdrop of the 1931 financial crisis and acted out in shabby bed-sitters and Lyons tea shops, At the Chime of a City Clock is a brilliantly evoked slice of Thirties' noir.

D.J. Taylor is married to the novelist Rachel Hore and lives in Norwich. He is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary, and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written six novels, the most recent being Kept: A Victorian Mystery. He is also well known as a critic and reviewer, and his other books include A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s and After the War: the Novel and England since 1945.

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Author Available: Cath Staincliffe, The Kindest Thing

July - December 2010

Cath Staincliffe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups.

A fictional account looking at the fiercely contested topic of assisted suicide, The Kindest Thing is a love story, a modern nightmare and an honest and incisive portrayal of a woman who honours her husband's wish to die and finds herself in the dock for murder.

A finely written page-turner that charts the life of a marriage and all the joys and stresses of bringing up a family and contrasts this with the terrifying experience of being imprisoned and at the mercy of the full weight of the criminal justice system. The Kindest Thing tackles a controversial topic with skill and sensitivity. A book that begs the question: what would you do?

Cath Staincliffe is part of Murder Squad, a collective of seven crime writers from the North of England. She is the author of the acclaimed Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the creator of ITV's hit police series, Blue Murder, which recently returned to TV with three new episodes featuring DCI Janine Lewis, played by Caroline Quentin. Cath's first novel, Looking for Trouble, shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's best first novel award, was serialized on Woman's Hour.

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Celebrity Shopper by Carmen Reid

March 2010 onwards

Carmen Reid is a wonderful author of the Personal Shopper series starring the incorrigible Annie Valentine. The fifth book in the series - Celebrity Shopper - is published on 4th March.

In 2009 we undertook some fantastic events with Carmen in various libraries across Scotland and the North. These events were incredibly popular with mothers and daughters as Carmen is also the author of a young adult series of books about a boarding school called St Jude's.

More of the same event style would be fantastic but it would also be fabulous to get Carmen doing some solo events or joint events with other adult authors, possibly with input from local businesses such as boutiques and salons to make it a true Girls Night In.

For further information about Carmen please visit her website - www.carmenreid.com

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