Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including... Continue Reading →
AMERICA WHAT WERE YOU THINKING: Emancipating 3,053,761 enslaved Africans and African Americans and then Leaving them to live in the same general population alongside their former enslavers, overseers, drivers, and various other proponents of slavery in the hopes that everyone could all just let bygones be bygones. How has that worked out for you?
The melting pot experiment is the largest social experiment in the history of civilization with 330,417,701 (and counting), voluntary and involuntary participants. However, beyond the long, winding, and provocative title, this book is at its core, simply a glass half-empty or glass half-full proposition. Was the melting pot an experiment that went horribly wrong? Riddled... Continue Reading →
MIMI
Mimi is a poignant story about a young koala who is unlike any other. She communicates differently, plays differently, and thinks differently. As she grows from a young joey into an adolescent, she struggles to build bonds with her peers and faces many tribulations along the way. At her side, throughout, are her loving parents,... Continue Reading →
EVERY OTHER WEEKEND
Heartbreak pushed them together. Will love pull them apart? When Adam Moynihan’s oldest brother died, his life fell apart around him. Now his mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can’t talk without fighting, and the father he always admired moved out when they needed him the most. Jolene Timber is used to being... Continue Reading →
HARRY THE KARATE MONKEY
In the first book in the ‘Harry the Karate Monkey’ series mad scientists, secret agents and the baddest of baddies all come together with a stuffed toy monkey and a little girl called Lucy. Together, they embark on the most amazing adventure of their lives…so far. Genre: Children’s book, Picture Book Age appropriate: 4-9 year’s old Number... Continue Reading →
Interview with Stuart Simmonds, author of Harry the Karate Monkey and the Hannah the Spanner series of books
I am extremely honored to bring you an amazing interview with Stuart Simmonds, a married father of two girls, Hannah and Lucy, an accomplished cricketer and sports coach. He now runs a property business from his home in East Grinstead, Sussex. Prior to writing the Hannah the Spanner series, he wrote an autobiography on a life... Continue Reading →
ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS
Odd the Viking boy has run away from home, even though he can barely walk and has to use a crutch. Alone in the forest, he encounters a bear, a fox and an eagle, each of whom has a strange story to tell. They need Odd’s help to save the city of Asgard from the... Continue Reading →
ONE DAY IN DECEMBER
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus... Continue Reading →
COLORFUL DARKNESS
Mia is afraid of the dark. This all changes when her mom helps her discover that she has powers of imagination that can fight the shadows and bring colour to her world. Through a series of colourful dream adventures based around the days of the week, Mia is empowered to fight the shadows and overcome... Continue Reading →
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
Quinn and Minnie are born on New Year’s Eve, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Their lives may begin together, but their worlds couldn’t be more different. Thirty years later they find themselves together again in the same place, at the same time. What if fate is trying to bring them together. Maybe it’s... Continue Reading →