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Children’s Books, Family Life Fiction, Fantasy, Humorous Fiction, Modern & Contemporary
Little Island Books
english
9781912417841
Book 1 of the Wulfie series
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Non-Fiction
Janey Mac Books
english
9780995702745
Based on more than two decades experience, Write That Script! is an imaginative and comprehensive guide to screenwriting, full of creative examples and exercises to show you how to use the theory to write your script. Not tomorrow. Not next week, but now!
Into the depths: plotting your story; knowing what to reveal and when
What people are saying about WRITE THAT SCRIPT:
“…Inspiration for getting that script out of your head and on to the page/screen from someone who has done just that and done it brilliantly.” – Paul Donovan, Producer, Deadpan Pictures
“What I love about this book is that it’s all practical and actionable advice, with effective exercises and brainstorming tips. Great for those starting out… as well as those want to develop their craft in a committed and professional way.” Alan Fitzpatrick, MD of Filmbase, Dublin
“…A helpful and practical guide to fire imaginations and to get words flowing onto the page. She has distilled the essence of screenplay craft and technique into a practical guidebook that’ll motivate you to overcome the screenwriter’s hardest obstacle – the first draft.” Danny Stack, screenwriter
About the author: L J Sedgwick is the creator of the ground-breaking children’s series Punky. (Available in +100 countries.) With more than 5 million hits on YouTube, it has won awards in Ireland, France and Russia. She has taught screenwriting since 1996 and works as a creative consultant across a wide range of projects for TV, film and games and is currently adapting her first novel, Dad’s Red Dress into an eight-part tv series with Tailored Films.
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Family Life Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Modern & Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult, General Fiction
Janey Mac Books
english
9780995702721
Angelica, 14, has reached three conclusions. Firstly, her mother Molly, who manages a rundown hotel on the wild Drisogue peninsula in Donegal, is desperately lonely. (She’s not.)
Secondly, it’s entirely her fault that Molly is still single.
(It might be.)
Thirdly, since she can hardly have a boyfriend of her own if Number 2 is true, it’s up to her to find her mother a man.
(It really isn’t.)
Given her dangerously impressive gift for matchmaking, Angelica’s solution is to develop a dating website for her mum. With the questions devised by Angelica and best friend, Grace, what could possibly go wrong?
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Putnam/Berkley
english
In 1960s Ordinary Springs, Florida, Dory Gamble is raised from infancy by her father in his small-town hardware store after her mother leaves. Over a decade later, still struggling to overcome her feelings of betrayal over this abandonment, Dory finds her life turned upside down once again by the arrival of strangers next door — an ailing man dependent on his beautiful and sophisticated wife — and her father’s growing relationship with his new female neighbor. Dory’s own relationship with lifelong best friend Pearce is evolving into something else, too. But then, in one shattering act she mistakenly sees as kindness, Dory nearly brings the world crashing down on them all. In the aftermath her father calls the sheriff and she’s sent to a reform school for girls by her father, but soon escapes and endeavors to make her own way in the world at 15 — unevenly at first, but gradually with more success despite many trials along the way. When at last she endeavors to go home again, though, she learns that everything she believed about her parents was a lie. And now she must decide how to live with that unwelcome and devastating truth.
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Teenager grows up fast in small Florida town—and then the plot really takes off in Hart’s second outing (after Waterwoman, 2002).
In expressive prose that avoids “southern fiction” preciousness, Hart brings us Dory Gamble, daughter of Owen, hardware-store owner in sleepy Ordinary Springs. Dory’s earliest memories are fraught with questions. Where did her mother, Vera, disappear with that suitcase after telling toddler Dory a bedtime story? Why did her father bury her mother’s clothes? Why are her parents’ former best friends, the McMillans, now standoffish? Why is her father so distant? Dory works as her father’s housekeeper and helper at the store, and she assumes she’s first in his secretive heart—until the Yankee city-slicker Fitzgeralds move in across the street. Dory realizes with horror that her father, oblivious to the blandishments of every other female in town, is falling hard for the Capri-clad, spike-heeled, Dali-loving Myra Fitzgerald, whose WWII vet husband, Frank, is bedridden. While Owen and Myra are otherwise occupied in another room, Dory unwittingly becomes an accessory to Frank’s suicide. And then, when her father announces that he’s to marry Myra, Dory loses her already tenuous grip on self-restraint and, the night of her 16th birthday, has an assignation with childhood friend Pearce McMillan under a carnival truck, empties the cash register at Owen’s store, and tries to run away, only to be apprehended by the sheriff, who has zeroed in on her role in Frank’s death. From there, it’s on to reform school, escape (her expertise with hardware serves Dory well), a stint at a roadside diner and tourist trap, the birth of daughter Rose, an affair with a half-Seminole ’gator trapper, and a newfound determination to return to Ordinary Springs for a vigorous spring-cleaning of her father’s house and its resident demons.
Unerring eye for 1950s detail lifts this soap-operatic story above the ordinary, even if the plot springs are a bit too visible.
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Putnam/Northampton House Press
english
978-1937997595
SYNOPSIS: Even as a child, plain, boyish Annie Revels had everyone’s role in life figured out. Everyone’s, that is, except her own. Her mother was sickly and needed to be taken care of. Her little sister Rebecca was remarkably beautiful, where Annie was not. Her father was a waterman, a free-looking life Annie deeply envied and could’ve had, if only she’d been born a son.
Tiny, remote Yaupon Island knows nothing of the partying, gin-soaked Roaring Twenties which grip the rest of the country. The Revels family depends on the coastal waters to make a living, and tragedy is always only a bad storm away. As Annie notes, “In order to live on the Shore, you need to understand that good weather always follows bad.” But when her father dies, suddenly it falls to Annie to take his place aboard the oyster boat and support what’s left of the family.
Out there, she finds the only life she thought she could ever really fit into: being a waterman. Until one day, out on the water, she meets Nathan . . .
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Science Fiction, Thriller & Suspense
Outer Planet Media
english
978-1530558995
How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself.
All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long, intense sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site. But, it’s not long before they realize the colony is not as lifeless as everyone thought. Someone is still alive — hiding out somewhere.
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Family Life Fiction, Historical Fiction
english
Katherine Mezzacappa writing as Katie Hutton
Barrow-in-Furness, 1920: what is the terrible secret that put little Molly Dubber in a children’s home? And when she goes into service, what is it that reduces her master to screams in the dead of night?
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Zaffre
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9781838775834
Katherine Mezzacappa writing as Katie Hutton
1897: Annie is forced to leave the family farm in County Down, starting again in Cumberland as a spinner, only to find Ulster’s fault lines have crossed the Irish Sea too. Can her love for Robert survive the sectarian divide?
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Zaffre
english
9781838770372
Katherine Mezzacappa writing as Katie Hutton
Can talented Harmony ‘Harry’ Loveridge overcome the tragedy of her past to build a new life for herself in 1950s Nottingham? And who will she build it with, the brooding and mercurial Max or Ned, lathe operator and miner’s son?
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Zaffre
english
9781838770259
Katherine Mezzacappa writing as Katie Hutton
Oxfordshire 1919: Heartbroken Ellen lost her fiancé to the trenches. But when she finds love again with the mysterious Gypsy Sam Loveridge, both their communities do all they can to tear them apart.