TWENTY ONE TODAY
Carol Hathorne
'I never thought I`d get the key to me own
front door!' Pam Bailey confessed. Proudly, she showed her two friends into the
living room of her brand new high rise flat. It was one of several blocks which
identified the state of the art council estate and was unlike any development
ever seen before in the industrial Black Country town of Tipton.
So starts TWENTY ONE TODAY to continue the stories
of Pam Bailey, Jenny Day, and Marie
Townsend, the characters Carol Hathorne introduced in her endearing novel ONLY
SIXTEEN.
Set once more against the backdrop of the
industrial west midlands, TWENTY ONE TODAY charts the
lives of the three friends through expanding horizons, work
relationships, and love, to full independence signified by their own keys to
their own doors!
Another gem from the pen of Carol Hathorne
Royal
8vo paperback, 108 pages, £6.50 (plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 43 7
BLACKPOOL OR BUST
Paul Evans
BLACKPOOL
OR BUST
Coventry
born author Paul Evans’ brilliant debut novel.
Curmudgeonly
Charlie Wilson likes giving Care
Assistant Jack McDonald a hard time. But when Jack learns of Charlie’s
diagnosis, it’s time to put old feelings aside.
A
new promotion affords Jack the opportunity to realise Charlie’s remaining wish
to visit the place of his betrothal so despite the odds, it’s BLACKPOOL OR
BUST.
The
amorous intentions of Mary in combination with the interests
of Laura add spice to the plot as
Jack helps Charlie reach his goal.
At
turns comic, tragic, and steamy, you won’t be able to put this one down.
Royal
8vo paperback, 192 pages, £9.00 (plus £1.30 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 36 9
TAKEN OVER
John Summerton
One
day, Alistair Carne will win a bet…
One
day, he does…
And
that’s the day he has bet he can spend the night in a mental health
institution and succeeded.
Getting in? Easy peasy!
So getting back out again the next day to collect his winnings will
surely be simplicity itself…
But
this is the 21st Century Britain where simplicity itself is off the menu...
Follow
Alistair Carne’s fortunes as he seeks to escape the Kafkaesque nightmare of
his own making in John Summerton’s hilarious debut novel.
At
turns moving and poignant, but brilliantly funny throughout, a story unfolds in
which the lunatics really have TAKEN OVER the asylum.
Royal
8vo paperback, 200 pages, £9.00 (plus £1.30 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 29 1
FAERIE DUST
Louise Mary Stokes
Stephen
is at home looking after the kids while Sally is away on a residential course...
Louise
Mary Stokes’ first full length novel, FAERIE DUST, charts the life of Sally as
it unfolds when she does not return home to resume her roles of loving mother
and dutiful wife.
Guided
by her faeries, to whom she is known as Lilac Rainbow, she struggles to be
herself rather than the person others would have her be.
FAERIE
DUST is a powerful novel of self discovery which explores the pressure to comply
and the spirit of individuality, and culminates dramatically as the two clash
and only one can prevail...
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8vo paperback, 176 pages, £8.00 (plus £1.30 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 30 7
THE KINGSTOWN AGENDA
S.G. Grey
An impending, emotive Referendum on the contentious question of whether or not to abolish Sterling and replace it with the Single European Currency - The Euro - for the voters of the United Kingdom; is the highly charged background against which is set a narrative of suspicion, hostility, deep division, intrigue, treachery, anger, violence and murder; that opens with a phone call to a Security Service safe-house in central London - and a current password then correctly given - information concerning a death imparted - a series of orders issued; all from a surprising source...
...And Alex Smith's tour as the Senior Duty Officer on the graveyard shift at the safe-house, is about to be extended into some challenging, murky and very dangerous territory indeed...
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8vo paperback, 248 pages, £10.00 (plus £1.50 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 28 4
ONLY SIXTEEN
Carol Hathorne
At Only Sixteen she was too young to…
...do a lot of things in the adult world she was
about to enter.
But at Only Sixteen she was old enough to start
going out to work
Old enough to command the attention
of older men
And ultimately, old enough to know.
Set against a backdrop of the emerging rock and
roll youth scene in the Black Country of the early 1960s, Only Sixteen charts
the stories of Pam Sheldon, Marie Townsend and Jenny Day as they leave school
behind for the big exciting world of work
and relationships.
At turns, hilarious, touching and poignant…
Another brilliant novel from Carol Hathorne.
Royal
8vo paperback, 124 pages, £7.00 (plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 31 4
BRIERLEY HILLS COP
Greg Stokes
BRIERLEY
HILLS COP
Set
in the Black Country Republic, independent of England, Riffy H McDonald, most
celebrated cop of the BCPD, is back in the second part of the Pantechnicon
Trilogy.
Fresh
from the plaudits of the Caprioni case told
in the first novel A PACK OF SAFTNESS, Riffy H is mysteriously transferred from
Homicide to Vice, and then suspended…
In
seeing off the New York mob, the Black Country had become the fashionable place
to be among the Hollywood elite. They move en masse from Beverley Hills to
Brierley Hill where the locals add an S to the name to make them feel at home.
American businessmen are even building a new theme park out near the
Black Country International Airport. But
what are they really up to…
Riffy
H is on the case.
But
will he find out in time…
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8vo paperback, 108 pages, £7.00 (plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 33 8
A PACK OF SAFTNESS
Greg Stokes
Gil had been standing on Fifth avenue unable to move
for people.
"There's more than five bloody families here, kid," he'd told Gerry.
A Pack Of Saftness is a spoof detective novel set in a
fictitious Black Country republic, independent of England, known affectionately
as the BC. A Pack of Saftness introduces Inspector H McDonald - Riffy H -
head of homicide of the BCPD.
The caper follows Riffy H as he pursues a serial killer who is wasting members
of the local ecological group Green Henry like it is going out of fashion and
the fact the local crime syndicate are involved in a cultural exchange with the
New York mafia only clouds the issue.
A Pack Of Saftness, being part one of The Pantechnicon, is... a right ruddy pack
of saftness.
Royal
8vo paperback, 92 pages, £6.00 (plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 978 1 904552 34 5
THE HAIRY MOUSE
Clarice Hackett
"Are you longing for your roots Doris?"
Harriet asked.
"I'm not surprised, the Black Country isn't a very
pleasant place to live in."
"'Etty', it said urgently. 'Etty it's me, Emily, your mother.
Speak to me Etty or the contact will be lost.'"
From
The Hairy Mouse
A second novel from Clarice Hackett set
at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries telling of two entrepreneurs who join
forces to open a new coal mine. They want to keep it in the family so a marriage
is planned between their offspring. But a complex web of deceit emerges
involving questions of spiritualism, inheritance and love. In short another
brilliant piece of writing from Clarice Hackett describing in vivid fashion a
bye gone Black Country.
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A5 comb bound book; 168 pages; £6.00
(plus £1.20 p&p)
ISBN 1 904552 05 6
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THE SPORTSMAN
Clarice Hackett
"Well if you want my opinion George you could have done a lot
worse than Rose."
Ma Harris in The Sportsman
Based on the life of George Harris who became a local sports legend. Through playing for VILLA, ALBION and COVENTRY he achieved the working man's dream of owning his own pub which he renamed THE SPORTSMAN. The novel tells the tale behind the headlines.
Clarice Hackett's writing brings to life the early years of the 20th century; the coal and steel; the heat and the noise; the poverty and deprivation… and above all the passion for sport which drove men like George Harris.
But George was driven by other passions too. The prospect of a marriage into respectability paves the way for a secure future…. Will things go George's way, or will they go the way of
Rosannah, barmaid at George's local.
The Sportsman is a story of love unrequited which displays a passion for life set against the grim backcloth of the Black Country at the turn of the last century.
"I'm regularly asked to recommend reading which would give a quick dose of life as it was… This novel fills that request better than anything else that comes to mind."
Stan Hill, The Blackcountryman
"This story has everything, it should be made into a film or TV programme…"
WABC Radio
A5 paperback; 112 pages; £4.50 (plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 0 9520317
2 8
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TRIED BY PREJUDICE
Greg Stokes
"He just lay there motionless, blood oozing from his head. I thought he was
dead."
Ken Simmons in Tried by Prejudice
A Midlands community watch in horror as children are picked off one by one by an unknown killer while in a Gulf state the ex-pat community look on approvingly as the locals administer justice..... then rough justice strikes someone they know while at home the people have their culprit..... Or do they?
Tried By Prejudice is a powerful drama set in the Arabian Gulf and English west midlands. It is a tale of murder, revenge, justice, and a torrid love affair between people who just won't go with the flow, people who won't look on while others are Tried By Prejudice.
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full synopsis click here
A5 paperback; 112 pages; £4.99
(plus £1.00 p&p)
ISBN 0 9529317 4 4
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