The Scoop - Longlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize 2020
Publisher: RedDoor Press
Publication: 19 March 2020
Format: Paperback 356 pp
RRP £8.99
“Warm, intelligent and funny”
Casey Jones's life is a mess. Her job bores her, her parents confuse her, and she has repeated nightmares about her ex-girlfriend. In a moment of madness she packs in her job and plans an adventure with her schoolfriend, long-time lad Danny.
What she didn't plan for was an extra passenger, in the shape of Danny's estranged twelve-year-old son, Ari, who has problems of his own.
The three of them are thrown together for an intense rollercoaster ride in Alice a converted bright pink ice cream van through some of the most beautiful and dangerous places in the world, from Tulse Hill to Tibet.
“If you’ve missed out on the glory of escapism this summer, The Scoop is the perfect read for you”
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Holding my Breath to keep the love inside (poetry)
Cat;s poetry has been published in the following publications and ezines:
Niederngasse
Poetic Voices
The Sidewalk’s Edge
Clean Sheets
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication: June 2008
Format: Paperback 102 pp
RRP £9.00
“Lush and raw and clever and heartfelt... The opening stanza of ‘Empty’ knocked me flying”
Holding my Breath to keep the love inside is a book of love poetry for the twenty-first century. The poems evoke the passion and possibility, fear and desire, pleasure, pain and brutality of modern relationships in a post-romantic age.
The poems bare the heart of love itself, exploring love as a passage from innocence to loss; love as a fairytale, a fiction we create for ourselves; love as an unrequited passion, an obsession; love as a belief, as something we choose to have faith in or not; but most of all what comes shining through is love as eternal hope.
The raw passion in these poems of love and loss makes this collection both compelling and poignant. It takes us on a journey from the darkest moments of utter desperation at the end of love, to the highest pinnacles of desire and ecstasy when new love is found. It is a beautiful and unforgettable look at loving and being loved.
Poems for a Pandemic (poetry anthology)
Poems for a Pandemic is a bestselling collection of poems written by people working on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as published poets. It contains the iconic ‘You Clap for Me Now’ by Darren Smith.
All revenues received by HarperCollins directly from sales of this ebook will be donated to NHS Charities Together for their Covid-19 appeal.
The collection was put together by Angela Marston, a retired Palliative Care Nurse, with 40 years in the NHS and Hospice services. She wrote her first poem whilst self-isolating with Covid-19. The anthology includes poems from nurses, doctors, and teachers; pharmacists and journalists; child protection officers and food bank volunteers. From people aged 9 to 92. From established poets and writers. From heroes.
It is a valuable collection of first-hand accounts – of love, of grief, of fear, and of hope – that explores the global effort to rescue humanity from the teeth of an invisible enemy. And it comes direct from the people that don capes and masks in order to go save the world.
Cat’s poem ‘Peregrine Nation, May 2020’ is also featured, and you can find out more about why and how Cat wrote this poem here.
Publisher: WIlliam Collins (an imprint of HarperCollins)
Publication: June 2020
Format: Kindle 154 pp
RRP £4.99