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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Ollie Owl Learns About Staring: Part of the Woodland Friends Learn Together Series by Lisa Owens

 Ollie Owl Learns About Staring: 

Part of the Woodland Friends Learn Together Series 

by Lisa Owens 


Ollie is an Owl who lives in the forest. Ollie doesn't know why his friend is upset, so his mum teaches him all about staring and how to practice this rule.

Many social rules we live by are unwritten. This series of books set out to gently guide the reader through social situations that some people may struggle with, suggesting strategies that can be used and practiced together.

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Turn & Burn: The Scriptwriter's Guide to Writing Better Screenplays Faster by Cj Walley

 

Turn & Burn: 
The Scriptwriter's Guide to Writing Better Screenplays Faster 
by CJ Walley 


Do you want to develop scripts that leap off the page? Do you want to write scripts that grab readers by their lapels and offer you the best possible chance of success? Do you want to turn around scripts faster than ever before? Then read on!

Inspired by CJ Walley's extensive online posts and extended three-fold to include content on character development, dialogue, effective drafting, and building a career, the Turn & Burn methodology offers practical, real-world advice for quickly turning stories - within any genre - into engaging and authentic movie scripts.

Turn & Burn is a proven and systematic way to get the very best out of your ideas and your unique artistic voice.

In this book:

  • Maximise the power of concept, structure, and theme to create absorbing stories.
  • Nail down your characters - heroes, villains, and everyone in-between.
  • Develop your hero's journey through the five-fold approach of: Yearn, Turn, Burn, Learn, and Earn.
  • Recognise how the power of emotion ultimately captures hearts and minds.
  • Take realistic and dramatic dialogue to the next level.
  • Understand the complete journey of a scriptwriter's career, so you remain enthusiastic and motivated, even when rejection raises its ugly head.
  • Avoid the pitfalls that can send you in circles by learning what not to do!
  • Includes practical worksheets that bring process and structure to script development. (They can also be downloaded for free from the publisher's website.)

About the Author: CJ Walley is a working writer-producer with multiple feature films to his name that star household names from the past and present. Based in Staffordshire, England, he's managed to break into the filmmaking scene in Los Angeles while also founding Script Revolution, one of the biggest script hosting platforms in the world.


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NOT THE ONE: A Woman’s Guide To Identifying Red Flags by Stina Sanders

 NOT THE ONE: 

A Woman’s Guide To Identifying Red Flags 

by Stina Sanders 




Sick of dating time wasters, abusers and f**k boys?

Not The One is a woman’s guide to detecting red flags from as early as the first date to your long-term relationship. This no-nonsense book helps you navigate the world of dating, while searching for ‘the one’.

Full of advice from a psychodynamic and CBT therapist, real-life dating scenarios and tips to help finding the partner you want.

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NOT THE ONE 

Monday, November 29, 2021

The talkSPORT Quiz Book: The perfect activity gift book for football, rugby and cricket fans for Christmas 2021 by talkSPORT

 The talkSPORT Quiz Book: 

The perfect activity gift book for football, rugby and cricket fans for Christmas 2021 

by talkSPORT 



‘The perfect Christmas gift’ – Alan Brazil

A brilliantly entertaining and hilarious quiz book from the country’s favourite sports broadcaster

Know your bull calf from your bullseye?

Your Hawksbee from your Hawk-Eye?

Your Saints from your Seagulls?

Then join the talkSPORT team as they test you and your mates or family on some of the greatest sporting moments of the past 50-odd years.

With over 2,500 questions – split into family-friendly Easy, Medium and Hard sections for each sport – this awesome quiz book is the ultimate test of sporting knowledge and the perfect gift for anyone who loves the ups, downs and hilarity of the world of sport.

Don’t be a numpty – pick up your copy of The talkSPORT Quiz Book … NOW


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Saturday, November 27, 2021

SPINNING PLATES by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

 SPINNING PLATES 
by Sophie Ellis-Bextor





Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos became a source of much needed escapism, catharsis and sequined joy for a swathe of the population during lockdown. From knackered mothers and fed up fathers, to cooped up partiers with nowhere to go, Sophie's gloriously chaotic Friday kitchen performances have cheered and revived us. Now Sophie is bringing that same mixture of down to earth candour and optimistic sparkle to her first book.

In SPINNING PLATES Sophie writes openly and frankly about her life, from music to men to motherhood. From a childhood flogging Blue Peter badges in the playground to joining Theaudience straight from school, to finding love after a dark and troubled relationship, and becoming mother to five boys, Sophie pulls no punches in her autobiography. Covering relationships, good-enough parenting, the importance of delusion and dancing, Sophie writes about the things that take on greater importance as life becomes more complicated.

This is a book about respecting and learning from our mistakes and experiences and not being afraid to smash a few plates for the sake of what we actually need, want and value. By choosing to speak so openly on issues close to her heart, Sophie invites us all to join the conversation and bring those trickier subjects out of the shadows and into the light. Honest, heartfelt and highly entertaining.

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SPINNING PLATES

Friday, November 26, 2021

ELLIE'S DEAD POOL by Roy Murry

 


ELLIE'S DEAD POOL

 

by Roy Murry 



Would you kill to get all the money in a 
Game of Chance?

Two lovers win Ellie's Celeb Dead pool. 

One will kill.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Pie Comes Before a Fall: A light-hearted culinary cozy murder mystery (Baker's Rise Mysteries Book Two) by R. A. Hutchins

 Pie Comes Before a Fall: 

A light-hearted culinary cozy murder mystery (Baker's Rise Mysteries Book Two) 

by R. A. Hutchins 


Flora and her new feathered friend are at it again in the much-anticipated next instalment of the Baker’s Rise Mysteries series!

Ray Dodds, landlord of the Baker’s Rise village pub, the aptly named Bun in The Oven, and self-confessed local Lothario, meets an untimely demise in this second book of the popular cosy mystery series.

With the man killed by one of his own frozen pies, Detective Bramble is not short of suspects, though it seems the case is cut and dried when someone very close to home appears guilty.

When her friend is accused of the deed, reluctant amateur sleuth Flora Miller is compelled to investigate with her trusty feathered sidekick, who can’t resist getting a slice of the action! Unable to rest while she feels the wrong person is suspected, can Flora find the true culprit in time?

With so much suspicion and conflict, so much history and so many secrets, Flora begins to realise that her idea of a quiet life in the country may just have been pie in the sky!

Packed with humour and suspense, colourful characters and a sprinkle of romance, this next Baker’s Rise Mystery has all the ingredients for a great read!

(Includes a tasty pie recipe!)

Note from the author: Since the same quirky cast of characters feature in each installment of the Baker's Rise Mysteries, the books are best enjoyed when read in order!

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Under a Greek Moon: The new bestseller from the much-loved TV presenter by Carol Kirkwood

 Under a Greek Moon: 

The bestseller from the much-loved TV presenter 

Carol Kirkwood 




One woman returns to the island that changed her life forever

A-list actress Shauna Jackson has the perfect life. Fame, fortune, marriage. Or so it seems.

Running from a scandal, Shauna flees to the place that changed her life twenty years ago, the idyllic Greek island of Ithos.

Captivated once more by the azure seas and scented olive groves, bittersweet memories resurface of one summer, one unforgettable man, and a long-hidden secret.

Shauna can escape Hollywood, but can she escape her past?


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Under A Greek Moon 

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Writing for Television: A Complete Writer's Guide to Series, Serials and Soaps (Creative Essentials) by Yvonne Grace

 Writing for Television

A Complete Writer's Guide to Series, Serials and Soaps (Creative Essentials) 

by Yvonne Grace 



A no-nonsense, direct down-the-lens look at the television industry written from the point of view of a television drama producer who's been there, done it, fought some battles and won the odd award. 

Written in an engaging, anecdotal tone, Writing for Television provides advice on:

"Getting an agent."

"The type of writer television's looking for."

"The tool kit a television writer needs."

"The writer/script editor relationship."

"How to structure a storyline."

"How to write good treatments and outlines."


Packed full of useful insights, links and information, the book includes interviews with successful television writers working today, pointers on how to work collaboratively in the industry and how to make good contacts with the people who can further your career.


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Writing For Television

Saturday, November 13, 2021

The Female Lead (Volume 2): We Rise By Lifting Others by Edwina Dunn

The Female Lead (Volume 2): 

We Rise By Lifting Others 

by Edwina Dunn  

The stories of 67 remarkable women, from diverse backgrounds, interviewed exclusively for this collection. All show the incredible strength, talent, ingenuity, resilience, and bravery that women possess. Among them world leaders, artists, activists, engineers, writers, athletes and entrepreneurs. So many have beaten the odds to succeed in their fields of work; or broken free from the constraints of their individual circumstances.

They are trailblazers. They are heroines. And we celebrate them all.

In 2017, The Female Lead launched their first book profiling 60 inspiring women who shape the world, providing positive role models for young people.

This second volume reflects a different time. In 2021 we face unprecedented challenges and young women are looking for answers to big questions and guidance on how to navigate their futures. 

These stories show young women the countless routes to fulfilment and prove that no one journey is right or successful. How we must find our own paths and question the traditional options that women have been granted until now. They reveal new ways of achieving our dreams, of challenging discrimination and changing the world for the better.

The women profiled in this book have come together to inspire future generations and to honour the women on whose shoulders we stand. The title We rise by lifting others is woven throughout the book; a belief in the need for a collective effort to make positive change. Not just for women, but for everyone.

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Friday, November 5, 2021

Jacob Tucker on Subtler Radio with Lucid Juice

Excited to annouce that on Monday 8th November at 7pm, DJ Jacob Tucker will exclusively be sharing an hour of his own tunes for Lucid Juice on Subtler Radio!



Lucid Juice



Jacob Tucker

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

138: Game, Shot and the Match by Keith Deller

 138: Game, Shot and the Match 

by Keith Deller 



In 1983, an unknown 23-year-old from Suffolk called Keith Deller took the darts world by storm, defying the odds and sporting conventions to become a most unlikely world champion. Deller was the diametric opposite of the beer-swigging, chain-smoking, paunch-bellied darts player fans were used to. 

He was slim, well-spoken, athletic and didn't smoke or drink. And he looked like a boy next to his flabby, middle-aged opponents. A TV audience of 10 million watched transfixed as this angelic newcomer beat world number-one Eric Bristow in the final. 

Almost overnight, Keith had breathed new life into a game whose traditions had been hewn in the nation's smoky pubs and clubs. 

Deller was a new breed of darts player whose appeal transcended this gritty working-class sport, piquing the interest of intellectuals such as Martin Amis and Stephen Fry. 

In 138: Game, Shot and the Match, Keith takes the reader on an intimate journey as we relive his rapid rise from complete obscurity to lifting the game's greatest prize as one of the youngest world champions in history.

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Failing Spectacularly: And Other Coffee Break Stories by Donald O'Connor

 Failing Spectacularly: 

And Other Coffee Break Stories 

by Donald O'Connor 



Failing Spectacularly and Other Coffee Break Stories is a compilation of entertaining and hilarious stories just long enough to lighten your mood over a coffee break. 

All stories are taken from real events as experienced by the author.

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