At our Local Authors Party on September 7th, we’ll have a range of books from speakers of many backgrounds including Pirates of the Caribbean actor Kevin McNally, who has published his first novel. One reviewer calls Sons of Sol an “often hilarious and utterly thrilling homage to the Golden Age of science-fiction”.
Amer Anwar returns with his latest crime thriller, Stone Cold Trouble, as do SR Garrae (Death In Focus) and Calum Kerr (Terrible Brothers). Plus ex-BBC business correspondent Simon Gompertz on his first book, Limb of Satan, Geraldine Gallagher (Coaching Women – Developing Female Leaders) and Jeremy Myerson (Unworking – the reinvention of the modern office).
Historians include Patrick Grattan (Oasts and Hop Kilns: A History), VyvyanKinross (Nazis on the Nile) and Catherine Pepinster (Defenders of the Faith: the British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation).
There is a children’s book, Adventures of Captain Bobo by RDDikstra and KayHutchinson; a graphic memoir by former Olympic athlete MichaelParker, My Life, My Hurdles; and a play, Cosmo’sWar, about the WW1 experiences of Bedford Park artist Cosmo Clark, by BernardAdams and AnnabelRhys.
Cookery writer and broadcaster Jo Pratt returns with her latest book, The Flexible Baker; MaryWest and ClaraWilkinson will share the secrets of MakingMurals; and actor RobertGillespie will unveil the second volume of his memoirs, Are You Going to do That Little Jump? — The Adventure Continues.
If you’d like to join them and become a writer yourself, we also have several inspiring creative writing workshops to help you get on, and up, the ladder!
Rupert Wallis will give 1:1 tutorials online in The First 10 Pages. We have PaulineWyles on Building Your Writer Platform, FloraRees on How to Self-Edit; GregMosse on A Novel in Two Hours; Ellen Alpsten on Turning historical fact into great fiction; Julian Unthank on The Secret Structure of Story and Dr Josephine Perry on strategies to boost confidence and courage.