January 1989
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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Literary FictionUntil You Get Caught
by ian cassidy
As the 40th anniversary approaches new information about the infamous Birmingham Pub Bombings has come to light. Ian Cassidy’s latest novel Until You Get Caught contains sensational new material about the notorious events of 21st November 1974. Daisy the innocent heroine of Ian Cassidy’s latest novel unwittingly stumbles upon the terrorists’ preparations and finds herself caught up in the fallout from her mother’s passionate affair with the leader of the bomb gang. Including details that only an insider could know Until You Get Caught is a vivid and moving account of a young woman’s attempt to answer the question: How can you love a man capable of that? All that and coming of age in Birmingham in the 1980s. Finally the 'true' story can be told
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Crime & mysteryApril 2019Only Pretty Damned
by Niall Howell
Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category! Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland’s World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live without Genevieve, his ex-trapeze partner and lover? What ruthless actions will he take to regain his position as the headlining act? And will Toby’s past repeat itself as he tries to untangle the ropes that bind him and take a leap to roaring applause?
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Houses
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro-stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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FictionNovember 2023Sons of the East
by Ifeoma Chinwuba
The seven-year apprenticeship of Jasper Okonkwo has finally ended. He sets up a shop in the bustling city of Lagos, aiming to climb the social circles and be reckoned with. But he has not reckoned with his older brother, the envious, greedy, and malicious Zona, who is hellbent on being the lone star in the Okonkwo household. The agitation of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) for independence erupts. The Nigerian government begins to clamp down mercilessly on the dissidents. It is the opportunity that Zona is waiting for.
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HistoryJune 2013Across Great Divides
by Monique Roy
Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel chronicles the story of Eva and Inge, two identical twin sisters growing up in Nazi Germany. As Jews, life becomes increasingly difficult for them and their family under the Nazi regime. After witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht, they realize they must leave their beloved homeland if they hope to survive. They travel to Antwerp, Belgium, and then on to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, chasing the diamond trade in hopes of finding work for their father, a diamond merchant. Finally, they find a home in beautiful South Africa and begin to settle down. But just as things begin to feel safe, their new home becomes caught up in it’s own battles of bigotry and hate under the National Party’s demand for an apartheid South Africa. Eva and Inge wonder if they will ever be allowed to live in peace, though they cling to the hope for a better day when there will be “an understanding of the past, compassion for all humanity, and …hope and courage to move forward across great divides.” Worldwide rights are available for this novel. I would like to sell Across Great Divides in Europe, Africa and Asia. The readership for Across Great Divides are history buffs, both female and male, and all ages, from late teens through adult.
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AdventureThe Magical Pendant of Perdania
by Francis Jaycee
Samantha is a twelve-year-old girl who is befriended by a black cat; she discovers the cat is Gwyneth, a mage, banished to earth, from a land where magic is considered to be normal. Gwyneth can now change from a cat to a person at will. The evil magician who banished Gwyneth from her own world is trying to take the whole of her land and corrupt it to his own malevolent image. Samantha discovers with the help of her new friend, that she has a great magical ability herself, and Gwyneth presents her with a beautiful Pendant, which helps focus her magical abilities. When she goes to this new land by travelling through a “fairy ring” in her garden, she finds herself at the centre of a struggle to gain control of this other world. She has Timmy her childhood friend, who has been promoted to a Knight, and Gwyneth to help her. A wise old man has found an old prophecy that says that the three of them must fight the evil magician with three items that together will give them the power to win. But all is not as it seems in this Magical Land and they will have a terrible struggle to bring peace.
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Travel writingAugust 2012Chartered Territory
by Ben Zabulis
Ben Zabulis' Chartered Territory is a rich and diverse account of sixteen years spent living and working abroad as an engineer, from the chaos of everyday life in Lagos to the unique Hong Kong, via the conformity of salaryman life in Japan and the wonders of the subcontinent. Personal accounts of climbing Mount Fuji and taking part in dragon boat races go hand in hand with events on a global scale, as the author experiences a Nigerian coup d'etat, the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China, the terrifying SARS outbreak and the opening of Bhutan to more commercial tourism. A unique, light-hearted and warm first-hand account of ordinary and not so ordinary life in foreign cultures will leave the reader hungering after adventure themselves.
