Members’ Books

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY OUR MEMBERS

First of all we should mention our two anthologies.

EUMERALLA
Popham Gardens Publishing
Eumeralla is a wheat and sheep station in the Australian outback. The owners have to deal with dangerous snakes and spiders, droughts, bush fires or floods. Wheat and wool prices control their livelihood. But for Greg and Eleanor these are minor problems compared to the family secret they are desperate to keep from their children. Fifty miles away Keith and Gabriella clear out their mother’s house after her death. They find letters and photographs that arouse their curiosity. They visit Eumeralla and discover the secret. The consequences bring disaster to every member of the family.

Joanna Stephen-Ward
VISSI D’ARTE
Popham Gardens Publishing
VISSI D’ARTE is about love and music. The drama and passion associated with opera plots are evoked in this story set in an opera school. It begins and ends in England, but most of it is set in the Australian city of Melbourne. It tells the story of student opera singers and their often fraught path from their auditions to the start of their professional careers.
Joanna Stephen-Ward

TRACKS
Fractal Fiction
The future of the surveillance society… In Boston, Global HealthCare Corporation is hoping to recover its fortunes with a new micro-chip technology which can eradicate disease – until Peter Miller, the brilliant but troubled architect of the program, quits his job and goes to work at a psychiatric hospital in London, helping develop a system to track dangerous patients. When a deadly threat to the US emerges, a covert Federal agency becomes involved, and Miller is caught up in a web of lies, love, insanity and murder – and finds he’s opened the door to a frightening future.

Mike Gordon
http://www.tracksthebook.com

MEET ME AT THE BOATHOUSE
Hodder Children’s Books
Suzanne Bugler

STARING UP AT THE SUN
Hodder Children’s Books
Suzanne Bugler

A WOMAN WITH NO CLOTHES ON
Delancey Press Ltd
Edouard Manet creates a scandal in the 19th century art world with his paintings Le déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia. In each of them, the naked model is Victorine Meurent. Critics ridicule the works, dismissing Meurent as a common prostitute. But, in a world utterly dominated by men, she harbours a secret ambition to become an artist.

EMMA’S BABY
Published by Bantam Books
A young mother’s nightmare comes true… the tube doors close with her baby still on the train.
Struggling as a single mother, Emma sometimes wishes that her thirteen-month-old son Ritchie would just disappear. But when, one quiet Sunday evening, Ritchie is abducted by a stranger from the London Underground, Emma is thrown into a situation worse than she could have ever imagined.

Abbie Taylor
(Carla)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emmas-Baby-Abbie-Taylor/dp/055381981X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237118359&sr=1-1

GODFREY’S GHOST
FROM FATHER TO SON
Published by Mogzilla
In his youth, Arnold Ridley was celebrated as the author of the classic comedy thriller, The Ghost Train. In old age he played the much-loved character, Private Godfrey, in television’s Dad’s Army. For many years in between, he led the hand-to-mouth existence of an ageing actor struggling to find parts.
Nicolas Ridley
http://www.godfreysghost.co.uk