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December 9, 2021 By 2QT Publishing Leave a Comment

The Tide – Mark Tuohy

Author: Mark Tuohy
Release Date:  November 2021
Format:
Paperback 
ISBN:
978-1-914083-37-2
RRP:
£9.99 

When Michael jumps into the Thames it is only the beginning of his story. He is about to embark on an journey that will take him from London to the west of Ireland. The people he meets and the discoveries he makes along the way will help him turn his life around.

Michael is nineteen and lives with his grandmother Margaret, but when she dies his fragile world falls apart. After a stay in a hostel he sets off or Ireland determined to find Margaret’s old house in Connemara. The house is a place he associates with happy childhood holidays before his mother left.

Narrated in Michael’s highly individual voice The Tide is the story of a young man making sense of the world, coming back from the brink and embracing life again.

About the Author

Mark Tuohy is an award-winning playwright (Bush Theatre New Playwright Award) and an established writer of radio drama for the BBC. His work includes Supermarket Kisses, The Lights, This Is My Car Park, The Milk Race and Westway a continuing drama series on the World Service. He has more recently focused on writing novels. The Tide is his first novel and his second, Tiny Stars, is due to be published in 2022. He is also a musician and lives in Cumbria.

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October 21, 2021 By 2QT Publishing Leave a Comment

The Hoax – Paul Clayton

Author: Paul Clayton
Release Date:  April 2021
Format:
Paperback 
ISBN:
978-1-914083-05-1
RRP:
£10.99 


Meet Frankie Baxter. She’s trying to make ends meet and keep the boat afloat for her three kids. She’s harassed, sometimes impatient, but she’s a fabulous mum. So imagine her distress when Henry, her youngest child, goes missing… Henry returns safely accompanied by a stranger, Cora, a fairy godmother who starts to change the Baxter family’s lives in the best of ways. So why do things suddenly start going wrong? Is Cora fulfilling their dreams – or is she the start of a nightmare? Funny, terrifying and a real page-turner, The Hoax puts a whole new slant on psychological thrillers…

About the Author

Paul Clayton is best known to television audiences for five series of the award-winning sitcom Peep Show. Other appearances include Him and Her, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Doctor Who, The Crown, Shakespeare and Hathaway and This Time with Alan Partridge. This is his second novel. He is a regular columnist in The Stage and patron of the children’s literacy charity Grimm and Co.

He hopes the finished product may aid others too.

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July 30, 2021 By 2QT Publishing Leave a Comment

The Settlement – Ruth Kirby-Smith

Author: Ruth Kirby-Smith
Release Date:  February 2021
Format:
Paperback 
ISBN:
978-1-913071-99-8
RRP:
£9.99 

Olivia returns home to Ireland for her grandmother Sarah’s funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin?
In 1910 Sarah marries Theo, a widower deeply involved in the anti-home rule movement. She promises to keep her personal views private. One night in 1914 Sarah and her stepson Samuel are unintentionally drawn into gunrunning, which compromises her principles.
Theo slides into dementia but pesters Sarah constantly about something called the settlement. She is mystified until one morning in 1919, when she opens a letter and gets the biggest shock of her life. As the truth unfolds events occur to change her life forever, and she is torn between protecting Samuel and her unborn child.
After the funeral Olivia finds a red leather notebook to discover that Sarah has taken the secret of that fateful night in 1919 to her grave.

About the Author

Ruth Kirby-Smith grew up in Northern Ireland and studied
politics at Queen’s University, Belfast during the civil
rights era. She completed a Masters in City Planning and
worked in Stormont and London. In 1978 she joined a team
at Cambridge University undertaking research into the regeneration
of the inner city. When her children were born, she
took time out and set up a business, designing and selling baby
products, which she ran successfully for the next thirty years.
Now retired, she lives in Leeds with her husband and enjoys
travelling, reading, writing, golf, tennis and spending time with
her grandchildren.

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January 12, 2021 By 2QT Publishing Leave a Comment

Moonlight Sonata….

Have you ever visited a house that seemed to hold secrets, if only they could be discovered? Have you longed to find out the true stories of people who lived there, but not known where to begin?

For Yorkshire author Leonie Pearce, a story from the past emerged almost by accident. After retiring from full-time teaching and theatre work, she studied Creative Writing in Lancaster and joined a local writers’ group near her home in Bentham.

‘I’d been reading Rebecca,’ said Leonie,’ and loved the way the novel begins with a dream about the house where the narrator lived. It’s very atmospheric, haunted by past events, and I wanted to see if I could write a description of a house full of secrets and stories. It was there in my imagination – the house in a crescent by the sea where my husband grew up, with his brothers and sisters and various eccentric lodgers.

‘When I read out the description to the writers in our group, they were fascinated by the ‘scary’ lady who lived in the basement. Where did she come from? Why did she seem strange? Why wouldn’t she speak? I realised that she was part of our family history and someone whose story needed to be told.

‘At that moment Violet, my narrator, came to life. In her quirky, honest voice she speaks from the shadows of social isolation:

‘My life has been a journey up the steep slopes of Make Sense Mountain. I have travelled rough tracks over the Hills of Hard Work and learned to fly through valleys of Dark Days to the shingly places of the Whispering Waves.’

Born in 1900, Violet loses family and friends and is treated as a social outcast. To be accepted, she creates a new identity for herself. Her story reflects the fate of many women in the early twentieth century and is sometimes heart breaking, sometimes darkly comic.

‘Some of the story came from my own childhood memories,’ said Leonie. ‘Some came from research into topics as diverse as tomato growing, the early film industry on the south coast, two world wars and a gruesome murder.’

‘The book has been published by Settle based company, 2QT, with a striking cover design by Charlotte Mouncey from Bentham. The advice of local friends has been invaluable in the writing process. They have commented that the final version of the book is quick and absorbing to read, the characters seem real, it’s ‘written with insight and compassion,’ and ‘moving without being sentimental.’

Moonlight Sonata: a Story of Life in the Shadows is available through Limestone Books in Settle, The Book Lounge in Kirkby Lonsdale, or from Amazon, in paperback (at £6.99) or as an e-book (at £3.99).

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January 18, 2020 By 2QT Publishing Leave a Comment

Blue Skies Over Berlin by John Steinberg

Author: John Steinberg
Release Date:  Nov 2019
Format:
Paperback 
ISBN:
978-1-913071-38-7
RRP:
£9.99 

A young German woman, thinking she can escape her memories of wartime Berlin, moves to London in 1954 under her new name of Charlotte Brown. The offer of a prestigious job at the National Gallery leads her to believe that she can establish a new life in a city itself emerging from the ruins of war.
With her new identity, Charlotte hopes she has left Eva Schlessinger far behind . . . but when her job brings her into contact with a ruthless set of art dealers with dubious wartime connections, she fears they can see behind her facade. Priceless masterpieces start appearing at auction, stolen from murdered Jewish families by the Nazis, and she herself is implicated. At this point, Charlotte makes a solemn promise – one that will take her a lifetime to fulfil.
Blue Skies Over Berlin is a novel about secrets and guilt in an uncertain time, balanced by friendship and enduring love – and ultimately the need to make amends for just standing by.

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