Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Friday, 29 November 2013

Christmas - sorted!

Are you still looking for ideas for Christmas? 

Here is a selection of gifts, cards, calendars, books, music, etc.

Christmas Gifts






Christmas Tees



Christmas Books (Kindle)


Other titles also available:






Also Available:
And don't forget Songs for the Philippines


Christmas Cards

Calendars



More gifts

There are many more gifts available via my Twenty20 collection - photos, cards, canvasses, phone cases, etc.

Songs for the Philippines - download from iTunes


http://bit.ly/Itqs0Z

... Adele, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, The Beatles, BeyoncĂ©, Muse, Kings of Leon, Eminem AND MANY MORE! Proceeds from the sale of the album go to the Philippine Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan.

Thursday, 7 November 2013

The Inevitable Suicide of Daniel Whitaker

Here's a trailer for my first novel - The Inevitable Suicide of Daniel Whitaker



http://amzn.to/1iOWzmn 

Daniel Whitaker is a successful writer both lauded in the literary community and popular with readers but, while doing some online research about the world of paedophiles for a new book, he is arrested and charged. His life has always been a bit of a rollercoaster ride but nothing could prepare him for how his life is affected by what he maintains is a dreadful miscarriage of justice.

http://amzn.to/1iOWzmn 

Eventually he decides that there is no other solution than suicide. This book, in effect, is his suicide note - explaining his life, his actions and his reasons for ending his life.

http://amzn.to/1iOWzmn 

 Dan talks about his privileged upbringing, his time in Oxford, his drug and alcohol-fuelled life as a journalist and his career as a writer, as well as his attempts to clear his name. He speaks with fondness about his two children and he expresses his fears for their future. Robert Steadman's first novel is available to download on Kindle: http://amzn.to/1iOWzmn 

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Monday, 23 April 2012

World Book Night 2012

World Book Night is a celebration of the written held annually on 23rd April - Shakespeare's birthday.


The idea is simple.

This evening 1,000,000 books will be given away for free by people who have chosen a book that means something to them from a list.

I'm at Derby QUAD, sitting in the café drinking a hot chocolate, waiting for the book give away to begin at about 7pm.

I know what I'm getting, a copy of The Damned United (David Peace's account of Brian Clough's tumultuous time as manager of Leeds United) because I follow the person doing the giving away on Twitter.

All the books are softback special editions of well-known books - some classics alongside more contemporary fare - and the idea is to help promote reading in society by taking it out of libraries and book stores and putting it in unusual places, and, by having interested people give away the books, it's hoped that their enthusiasm will rub off on others.

It's a novel approach (yes, that was deliberate) and a great idea.

Who knows, maybe in years to come I can write a book that's given away at a future World Book Night.

For more information:www.worldbooknight.org

Thursday, 27 October 2011

QUIZ: Halloween Books

The Guardian website has a fun little quiz about spooky books...

See how you do.

I didn't do well. Just 5/10!

Click here to take the quiz.