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Feed A Read (ISBN: 9781908603982)
Price: £6.99 

A retired US Army Captain attends a seance and is united with his past; a boy in 1950s Liverpool finds he can fly; a plagiarist discovers the true meaning of poetic justice; a haunted loan shark; a computer game that..

It's Gone Dark is a collection of ghost stories originally written to be broadcast on late night talk radio and now collected together in a single volume. 

(ISBN-13: 978-1-907140-37-2)
Price £5.95 also to be available as a e-book

A collection of short stories by Linda Louisa Dell

'Better known for her self-help books and punchy novels such as ‘African Nights’, and Yes and pigs might fly. Linda has applied her talents to a collection of short stories.If you like your reading pithy, profound and written by a writer with a strong social conscience – then you will love this eclectic mix.'  Bookopedia

EarthMonkey Media Ltd (ISBN: 978-0-9567442-0-3)
Price: £6.99
Available at: www.picklesmith.co.uk

Indigo (Indy) Pickle-Smith is a brainy schoolboy inventor – famous in Topsy-on-the-Wibble for making clever widgets like The Pickle-Smith Metal Detector. But he’s had his share of flops too, like The Pickle-Smith Petal Detector, which was just a bee tied to a stick. Every genius has their off days.

Still, Indy’s latest invention will be his crowning glory. The Pickle-Smith Trunk-Warmer is a must-have for elephants...at last they can go skiing and not worry about TrunkFrost. 

Or at least, that’s what Indy hopes! But he doesn’t know if it works yet. He needs to find an elephant he can test it on…

Charotar Patidar Kutumb UK (ISBN 9780954157708)
Price: £14.95.  

It is only when we understand our past, that we can appreciate the present, and look with optimismto the future. This is why this book has been written.

This book provides a unique insight into the political and social events that shaped the lives of a community. During the 20th century, this community successfully made the transition from being an agricultural community focused on rural village life in central Gujarat in India to an international
community made up of city dwellers, but still able to identify with the land they called Charotar.

Jimmy Stone once had it all, but now his snooker career is declining and his personal life is a mess...can he turn his game around? With the pressure of competing at the top of the game proving to be too much for him, a string of defeats causes him to turn to drink for comfort. Soon his decline begins to spiral out of control. A dramatic turn of events forces Jimmy to rethink his future. With the World Championship just around the corner, is there enough time for Jimmy to reclaim his status? 

Authors Online (e-book)
Collected Poems 1973-2010

The collection represents a cross-section of the subjects and themes that have preoccupied the author over almost four decades.

Moorhen Publishing (ISBN: 978-1 905856 03-9)
Price: £7.99

Clan is set in the Borders of Scotland and spans 700 years from the 13th century up to the present day.

The story is told from the perspective of David Elliot, who at 57 years of age, frustrated, out of work and with three failed marriages behind him is on the verge of a breakdown, when he embarks on a trip to the Scottish Borders to try through his ancestry to find some validation of his life.

Published by Wilverley Press (ISBN 978-0-9543089-3-3) 
Price:£7.50

This book is mainly an autobiography of the author’s childhood before and during the Second World War. It is the story of her family. She gives detailed description of how the family lived in those days. This book is full of memories.

On finding her father’s diary after he had died, she decided to publish it, and incorporate it in the book.

There are eight chapters full of description and the characters are brought to life. As Hazel is an artist as well as a writer she has illustrated this book with drawings as well as photographs.

Published by Legend Press (ISBN 978-1849239660 )
£6.99 at Amazon
Also available as an e-book (£1.27) at www.lulu.com

In a small town in the South Wales valleys, recovering drug-addict and nascent guitar-hero Jase Hopkins decides that the only way he can make something of himself is to finally form that band he's been talking about ever since time. Unfortunately, the best singer within a fifty-mile radius is a washed-up Tom Jones impersonator - who just happens to be his estranged father.

Keydell Press (ISBN 978-0956222305)
£8.50
Nigel Collins has just returned from a short holiday in Spain in his brand new BMW. He is held up in a long traffice queue due to an accident. While waiting, he walks ahead to talk to an old friend and to while away the time they look through some photographs. Once the traffic starts moving, Nigel walks back to his car, but it isn't there...

printondemand-worldwide.com (ISBN 978184426685-2)
£7.95 (+£1.95 p&p)

A collection of comic poetry to make you feel better about yourself.  Because you're brilliant.

Booksurge (ISBN-13: 978-1439260531)
$12.99

Against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Beethoven’s illegitimate son by his Immortal Beloved is brought up in Frankfurt by her husband whilst Beethoven in Vienna adopts his late brother’s child. Beethoven writes the Missa Solemnis to awaken his son’s spiritual awareness after the four-year old boy is stricken with illness. Reader reactions: ‘Powerful & moving.’ ‘Enjoyable & informative… a touching love story.’ ‘The truth about Beethoven.’  ‘An extraordinary story, beautifully told.’

Review of Passion screenplay:  
‘Crisp, fast-moving & dramatic, with a story worthy of wide circulation’
- Maynard Solomon, author of Beethoven, Beethoven Essays & Late Beethoven

Legend Press (ISBN 978-1-84923-053-7)
£6.99

This is a story of foul, cruel deeds on the periphery of international espionage, leavened by the good humour, wit, common sense and ineptitude of ordinary people. An experienced agent has been captured and faces the grim prospect of interrogation.  British intelligence must prevent this at all costs.

The section leader, at his wit’s end, asks Jason, our modest hero and not very successful junior member of staff, for ideas.  Jason suggests sending a whole bus load of tourists as amateur spies with one professional. The professional is soon captured and the motley crew of amateurs go it alone.  Jason resents that some members of the party have been given secret instructions, but not him, yet it is his duty to bring them back alive.

Petrojass Publications (ISBN 0-9549992-0-7) £8.99

Nineteen-year-old Chris, a student ‘Returnee to education’, and his 29–year-old supervisor, known as the ‘Iceberg’, have just two things in common: they are both human and of the same gender.

Instead of Roses and Rings unfolds in a multicultural setting with its many idiosyncrasy and taboos. It travels in dreams and fantasies from London to a French Caribbean Island and back to London culminating in an apparent supernatural event.

SCRIPTORA (ISBN 978-0-9562494-0-1)
£7.99

Starting in Enfield and Hertford, this compelling story moves swiftly to Malta in 1995, with flashbacks to the Second World War, as crime writer Jane Thornfield, separated from her husband Neville and researching for a new, possibly romantic, novel, uncovers the dramatic and startling secret of her Hertfordshire family’s connection with the war-torn island. What happened in 1942 cannot be undone, but it is not too late for Jane to change her own disordered life.
“Once you start reading this book you won’t want to put it down until
the end.” The Woman Writer.

Arima Publishing (ISBN 13  9781845493714)
£9.99

Auburn, a functioning autistic, has a desperate need to find employment following a traumatic episode in her complicated life.  When an explosion kills her best friend, and the private investigator involved survives but is wheelchair bound, she forms an unlikely partnership with him.  Together they will find out what happened and seek their own form of personal revenge on those responsible.

SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9564536-0-0)
£6.99

Geoffrey Lewis joins forces with fellow-boater Tom ‘Mac’ McManus to give us a collection of anecdotes of the canals with an emphasis on the humour of each situation.  The stories include a first-time boating trip, the hazards of buying a boat by remote control, and some of the disasters that can happen to the best-intentioned of boaters including the captain of a passenger boat and the crew of a pair of cargo-carrying boats.

Matador (ISBN 978-1848763418)
£7.99

When old Limpy McGhee swears he’s seen the Virgin Mary and received a miraculous cure at the ancient Mass Rock, the villagers of Inisbreen are sceptical. But they reckon without the religious fervour and ambition of Father Burke, the youngest parish priest in Ireland. Set in a tiny village on the Irish coast, this is a humorous novel in the classic tradition of Clochemerle and Whisky Galore, full of colourful characters, comical situations and hilarious incidents.

Deacon & Roberts (ISBN 978-0-9564061-0-1)
£7.99

Terry Park, divorced schoolteacher, ever-hopeful novelist, independent parliamentary candidate, wants his new Common Sense Party to decry political correctness and win voters’ support by advocating common sense government.
He befriends an attractive but strong-willed university lecturer, Susan Mansfield, whose research demands the replacement of Britain’s outdated schools with family supporting, personalised tutoring and, while Terry sees more than friendship in their relationship, she does not.
Although in its politics the story is radical, confrontational and thought provoking, in its development it is humorous and its description of a hidebound nation in need of widespread social change will ruffle feathers.

Neil Rhodes Books (ISBN 978-0-9555557-0-1)
£6.99

The fascinating new book by Brian Piddock, the country’s leading 'how to write' writer. Runner-up for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year

Brian writes: “I know writers are meant to find any publicity useful. However, I must say how deeply affronted I am that my brilliant and carefully wrought work has been reduced to the ‘Oddest Book Title of the Year’. My book is not odd. It is perfectly sensible. It is the most sensible writers’ manual ever published. A writer can make a fortune easily just by reading my book and following its precise instructions to the exact letter. In fact it is entirely and utterly lacking in oddness.”

Libros International (ISBN 978-1905988198)
£7.99

Why does Willie the Actor rob banks? Because that's where the money is!

New York City in the prohibition era, and Bill Sutton’s wife thinks he earns an honest crust as a rent collector. Instead, he leads an extraordinary double-life as ‘Willie the Actor’, a notorious bank robber.

Based on a true story, the novel’s protagonist is a gentle gunman who never once fires a shot. But it was believed he was jinxed and almost everyone he works with comes to a violent end.

AuthorHouse (ISBN - 978-1-4259-0429-6)
£15.90

This story is based on the lives of two men who became firm friends from childhood. Their friendship began during their school days, during the time of the emergence of the Welfare State when capitalism was the pillar of British society.

The Writers' Guild Books Co-operative was set up by members of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and will be formally launched in 2010.

Membership of the Co-operative is restricted to members of the Guild who have already self-published a book. Read more

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The Writers' Guild of Great Britain Books Co-operative has been launched  at an event in London attended by around 40 Guild members.

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In TV, film, radio and theatre, the Guild is the recognised body for negotiating minimum terms and practice agreements for writers.

We campaign on behalf of all writers – by joining the Guild you can help make our voice even stronger.