Here
are
the 2007 Quick Read titles from Wales
Aim
High
by Tanni Grey Thompson
Accent Press
ISBN: 9781905170890 (1905170890)
£1.99
Aim High is an inspirational book written by the UK’s leading wheelchair
athlete. She has won 16 Paralympic medals, eleven of which are gold, countless
European titles, six London Marathons and over 30 world records have catapulted
this Welsh wheelchair athlete so firmly into the public consciousness.
Aim High reveals what has motivated her through her best and worst times.
Bring
It Back Home
by Niall Griffiths
Accent Press
ISBN: 9781905170913 (1905170912)
£1.99
Chased by a hit-man,
a young man returns home from London to a small town in Wales. Reconciliation
with his family is alternated with his pursuer’s progress. A long
criminal connection is revealed but can he escape the sins of his fathers?
This is a tense, tightly written drama that will captivate the reader
with fast, gut-wrenching action.
by Fiona Phillips
Accent Press
ISBN: 9781905170906 (1905170904)
£1.99
A Day To Remember is a successful business but, when her right-hand man Steve goes off with the limo, Jo is left to pick up the pieces. Bookings are a mess, her home life’s in chaos and then her car is put off the road by a Mercedes driver having an argument with a bee. Far from A Day To Remember, it’s turning into a week she’d just rather forget…
by Lindsay Ashford
Accent Press
ISBN: 9781905170883 (1905170882)
£1.99
Megan Rhys is a half-Welsh, half-Indian forensic psychologist who is assessing the impact of the government's new legislation on the vice trade in Cardiff. As predicted by critics, the problem hasn't gone away – prostitutes have simply moved into darker, more dangerous areas. Megan is deeply concerned about the risk this poses to the women – especially as a young prostitute was murdered in the area just a few months ago. The story opens with Megan joining Pauline, a former prostitute turned outreach worker who the police called 'the oldest tart on the beat', in the red light district. Pauline is giving out condoms – she is affectionately known to the working girls as 'The Rubber Woman'.
The Authors
Lindsay Ashford lives with her four children in Borth on the West Wales coast. She has worked as a journalist for many years and has a degree in Criminology from Cambridge University. She has written three crime novels : Frozen, Strange Blood (longlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the year), and Death Studies. Her short stories have been published by women’s magazines including Woman’s Weekly and broadcast on Radio 4.
Dame Tanni Grey Thompson DBE was born in Cardiff in 1969 and educated at Loughborough University. She has represented Britain at 100 to 800 metre distances, as a competitor in the Paralympics in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004, winning 11 Gold medals, the Olympics in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 and the World Championships, winning 5 Gold medals. She has broken over 30 world records and has won the London Marathon in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2002. She has been voted Welsh Sports Personality of the Year three times.
There has always been a strong Welsh influence in Niall Griffiths's life. He was born to a Toxteth family with Welsh roots in 1966 and has lived in mid-Wales for the past decade. He has written five novels, all published by Jonathan Cape, and scores of short stories, reviews, travel pieces and radio plays.
Fiona Phillips presents GMTV's flagship programme, GMTV Today. An experienced and witty writer, Fiona also has her own popular weekly opinion column in Saturday’s Mirror. Before that, she also had a weekly column in the Express newspaper’s S magazine called The Diary of a Thoroughly Modern Mother. Her father lives in Haverfordwest.
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