INTERVIEW
Sylvia Kent with this months book club and joining her was writer C.L. Barber (aka Cindy Barber). Cindy Barber is a Head of Faculty and teacher of History. She has won short story competitions and runs a local writers group. Cindy is a married mother of two boys, living in Essex. Keeper of the Keystone is the first in the Chronicles of Kilion series.
Cindy’s book, Keeper of the Keystone, is out now from Amazon in paperback.
https://www.facebook.com/C-L-Barber-153595361723011/
Keeper of the Keystone – By C.L. Barber
All Michael knows of his dad is that the night before his first birthday, he disappeared. That same night a local family was slaughtered and the murderer was never caught. Whether it was a coincidence or whether their fates were entwined, no-one knew. It remained unsolved.
Fourteen years later, as Michael turns 15, a relative bearing a gift, changes the lives of Michael and his friends, Daniel and Hazel. No longer the victim of bullies and poverty, Michael is catapulted into a world of castles and magic.
Yet all isn’t well. Behind a façade of smiles, looms threats, plots and treason. Michael, Daniel and Hazel, away from home, find their existence threatened. Yet who should they trust and how can they survive?
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Billericay Readers Group book recommendations
A FINE BALANCE – ROHINTON MYSTERY.
A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry. Set in “an unidentified city” in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency. The book concerns four characters from varied backgrounds Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah who come together and develop a bond.
BEFORE THE FALL – NOAH HAWLEY
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES “ONE THE YEAR’S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS”. On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family. Was it by chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something more sinister at work? A storm of media attention brings Scott fame that quickly morphs into notoriety and accusations, and he scrambles to salvage truth from the wreckage. Amid trauma and chaos, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy grows and glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, morality, and the inextricable ties that bind us together. Kristin Hannah raves, “Noah Hawley really knows how to keep a reader turning the pages… a complex, compulsively readable thrill ride of a novel.”
MORE ABOUT SYLVIA
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Sylvia contributes to national, regional magazines and on-line journals. Following her Freelance Writer of the Year award for Writing Magazine, she began work on FOLKLORE OF ESSEX which contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. Sylvia’s book THE WOMAN WRITER, published by the History Press is sold @ the British Library. This history of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists dates from 1894 and includes pioneers who made their mark in journalism, literature & poetry. Sylvia celebrates the centenary of Joyce Grenfell, a former SWWJ president. A chapter is dedicated to Joyce who meanders throughout the book which was reviewed in The Times, other dailies & YouTube. Sylvia is SWWJ’s Archivist. She work with several publishers including on-line specialists.Ebook titles are BRENTWOOD: HISTORIC TOWN & ST MARY MAGDALEN: BILLERICAY, both downloadable via Kindle. later books are kindlised. 2,000 articles are linked to Facebook,Twitter @sylviaakent & Suite 101. Film/audio clips now added.
Sylvia’s 10th book Barking & Dagenham From Old Photographs is selling well.
