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Hull & East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site.
Simon Kerr is the Director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival. His debut novel, The Rainbow
Singer was published in 2001 and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award in 2002. He has also published As
Seen on TV under the pseudonym of Chris Kerr. He is currently writing a historical novel and epic screenplay,
both entitled Three Lions, both based on Wat Tyler's Rebellion in 1381; with two sequels about
the other revolts in King Richard II's reign to follow, The White Hart and The Bloody
Rose.
Wil is a teenage Heavy Metal fan who lives with his family in Belfast. He is sent with nine other Protestants, plus ten Catholic youngsters, to Milwaukee USA as part of a month-long peace initiative. The organisers of 'Project Ulster' are full of optimism, but the Project goes wrong from the start. Wil is not simply the angst-ridden, fourteen-year-old he appears to be. He lives a secret life as a Loyalist terrorist, and peace is the last thing on his mind. That is, until he meets Teresa, a bewitching Catholic girl who makes him believe that the American Dream, where everyone can live together, might be possible. But when Teresa breaks Wil's heart, old grievances resurface. Egged on by his host family's son, the Catholic-hating Derry, Wil soon resorts to his old ways. HAPPY DAYS becomes BADLANDS as events spiral out of control.
Kirk Rush is a struggling screenwriter, an English immigrant living a TV reality in the smog of Hollywood. Obsessed by the action TV shows of the 80s, he's finally been offered his dream job of writing The "A-Team movie" - provided he can set it in the Gulf War and make face bi-sexual. But Kirk's attempts to knuckle down to his script are thwarted by the news that his younger sister Denise has taken herself off dialysis in Miami and is planning to commit assisted-suicide with the help of the notorious Dr Death and his 'Sisters of Mercy'. Kirk and Denise have always had a nightmarish relationship, and it will take all of his powers of imagination, not to mention the assistance of KITTSCH (his Knight Rider car-come-conscience), to stop him blanking out his failure to be her kidney donor and embark on a heroic quest. Following the example of his TV idols - "Hannibal", "Face", "Murdock", "BA", Michael Knight, Luke Duke and Steve Austin - Kirk determines to save Denise from herself, sparking off a chain of events that are as unexpected as they are bizarre. (Written under the pseudonym "Chris Kerr"). |
