Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:11 am  

Mintball wrote: In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north? I sincerely hope two of those six figures are the ones after the decimal point

Mintball wrote: In terms of books, Nadine Dorries has signed a six-figure book deal. Well, her novels will apparently be based on her childhood in Liverpool. There: how's that for a connection to both books and the north? I sincerely hope two of those six figures are the ones after the decimal point

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Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:37 am  

Anyone know when Inferno by Dan Brown is out on paperback? Don't have a Kindle and been holding off buying a bulky hard back copy, thinking it must be out soon...

Re: The North – the new book thread : Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:10 pm  

Unlike many people who go on this message board, I am not a big reader. However I am a big writer having now written five novels about Northern working class life and all with a strong Rugby League background. As yet though no one seems to have passed any comments here on my material. So if anybody here has anything to say about the novels One Winter, One Spring, One Summer, One Autumn or Two Seasons, I will be more than interested to read them and maybe feed them into the Try Reading Project that various libraries across the North of England are now organising. It is a project to get more people into reading and writing and is involving a number of rugby league writers, journalists and players. See the Try Reading web site for more details. One Winter, One Autumn and Two Seasons are all available through my publisher London League Publications at http://www.llpshop.co.uk. They are also available as E books on Amazon.

Unlike many people who go on this message board, I am not a big reader. However I am a big writer having now written five novels about Northern working class life and all with a strong Rugby League background. As yet though no one seems to have passed any comments here on my material. So if anybody here has anything to say about the novels One Winter, One Spring, One Summer, One Autumn or Two Seasons, I will be more than interested to read them and maybe feed them into the Try Reading Project that various libraries across the North of England are now organising. It is a project to get more people into reading and writing and is involving a number of rugby league writers, journalists and players. See the Try Reading web site for more details. One Winter, One Autumn and Two Seasons are all available through my publisher London League Publications at http://www.llpshop.co.uk. They are also available as E books on Amazon.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:26 pm  

glee wrote:

Unlike many people who go on this message board, I am not a big reader. However I am a big writer ...

How do you tally that equation, Glee?

Re: The North – the new book thread : Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:39 pm  

Mike Oxlong wrote:

Anyone know when Inferno by Dan Brown is out on paperback? Don't have a Kindle and been holding off buying a bulky hard back copy, thinking it must be out soon...

Not even a date on Amazon yet, doubt it will be this side of the new year.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:11 pm  

glee wrote: Unlike many people who go on this message board, I am not a big reader. However I am a big writer having now written five novels about Northern working class life and all with a strong Rugby League background. As yet though no one seems to have passed any comments here on my material. So if anybody here has anything to say about the novels One Winter, One Spring, One Summer, One Autumn or Two Seasons, I will be more than interested to read them and maybe feed them into the Try Reading Project that various libraries across the North of England are now organising. It is a project to get more people into reading and writing and is involving a number of rugby league writers, journalists and players. See the Try Reading web site for more details. One Winter, One Autumn and Two Seasons are all available through my publisher London League Publications at http://www.llpshop.co.uk. They are also available as E books on Amazon. Did read a few of them many years ago - still have them upstairs. Cannot recall too much about them now though!

glee wrote: Unlike many people who go on this message board, I am not a big reader. However I am a big writer having now written five novels about Northern working class life and all with a strong Rugby League background. As yet though no one seems to have passed any comments here on my material. So if anybody here has anything to say about the novels One Winter, One Spring, One Summer, One Autumn or Two Seasons, I will be more than interested to read them and maybe feed them into the Try Reading Project that various libraries across the North of England are now organising. It is a project to get more people into reading and writing and is involving a number of rugby league writers, journalists and players. See the Try Reading web site for more details. One Winter, One Autumn and Two Seasons are all available through my publisher London League Publications at http://www.llpshop.co.uk. They are also available as E books on Amazon. Did read a few of them many years ago - still have them upstairs. Cannot recall too much about them now though!

Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:22 am  

Just finished 'The Forgotten Highlander' by Alistair Urquhart. Its a real life story of his time in WW2 getting captured by the Japanese at Singapore and his work on the Death Railways. That bloke went trough a lot, its inspirational.

Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:21 am  

I enjoyed One Winter, very nostalgic for me having moved to London over thirty years ago.
About to start Tune In, the new 900 page Beatles biography which covers the period up to their first record.
Wondering how long it will take...

Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:57 am  

Not ashamed to admit I am tempted to get the new Bridget Jones book...

Re: The North – the new book thread : Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:37 pm  

Lawrie L wrote:

Not ashamed to admit I am tempted to get the new Bridget Jones book...

..... nor Cider with Rosie?