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1 y separately published work icon Howling on a Concrete Moon Simone Bailey , Burleigh : Zeus Publications , 2016 10199593 2016 single work novel young adult
1 y separately published work icon Silver Studs and Sabre Teeth Simone Bailey , Burleigh : Zeus Publications , 2014 10235601 2014 single work novel humour

Meet Hector Davis, a forty-year-old town planner who loves his wife and teenaged daughter. He enjoys listening to Kiss, Gary Glitter and T-Rex. He also occasionally likes to strip down for a ‘rub-and-tug’ at the local ‘massage’ parlour.

Life’s pretty cruisy for Hector.

Until one day, whilst enjoying one of his ‘massages’, the parlour is raided by police and Hector snatches up his clothing, fleeing naked to a nearby park. He shelters behind some shrubs, but is discovered and filmed on a mobile phone by two schoolgirls. To his astonishment, he is rescued by the very embodiment of one of his idols, Marc Bolan, the late singer with T-Rex.

As Hector’s marriage falls apart in the wake of the mobile phone footage, he is erroneously accused of taking a bribe and forced to stand aside from his job.

Hector has to deal with the emotional fall-out of these upheavals, being supported by a colourful cast including his oafish best mate, his sister who just wants to get married to her partner (another woman), his new friend Kat, a rambunctious Doberman, Seventies tribute artists, and his new landlord-cum-benefactor, the world’s most accurate Marc Bolan impersonator.

Silver Studs and Sabre Teeth is a compelling, rollicking, rollercoaster tale of one man’s journey from the ordinary to the extraordinary with much drama and mischief on the way.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

1 y separately published work icon Abernethy Simone Bailey , Burleigh : Zeus Publications , 2010 10235659 2010 single work novel young adult

For fourteen-year-old Billy Alexander, things can’t get much worse. His father’s in gaol awaiting the outcome of his appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal, and he and his mother have had to move to a new town. He’s having trouble dealing with his feelings towards his father, and hasn’t made any friends at his new school yet. Even worse, the class Over-Achieving-Golden-Boy-And-Bully has targeted him as the next victim. Billy really needs a genuine friend and some guidance.

Enter Abernethy, a beagle who, by virtue of having worked as a witch’s familiar, has been blessed with the power to communicate with certain people. One of those people is Billy. Abernethy becomes Billy’s mentor and friend, and helps him cope with his father’s incarceration, the bullying, his attempts to make new friends, and his mother’s suspected infidelity.

An enjoyable and heart warming story that should appeal to both young and not-as-young adults, and will make you wish you had a friend just like Abernethy, canine or otherwise.

Source: Publisher's Blurb

1 y separately published work icon Calumny While Reading Irvine Welsh Simone Bailey , Burleigh : Zeus Publications , 2008 Z1581082 2008 single work novel satire

'Martha Elliott is a clever, determinedly single, borderline anal retentive who lives with her family: a silent father, a mother who does not notice her, a sister who is inveterately stoned, and a younger brother who makes Martha want, in her own words, 'to disembowel him'. She's not too bad at number crunching, but in the kitchen she is a true artiste, albeit more domestic gorgon than domestic goddess. She hates instant coffee and will not suffer fools or anybody who displays bad railway station etiquette.

'The same day her best friend Grace lends her a copy of the Irvine Welsh novel Trainspotting, Martha is stricken by a bout of 'escalator-rage' when she sees an elderly woman standing on the 'wrong' side of the escalator. She forces her way past, but then the woman falls to her death. Unfortunate for Martha and, rendered even more unfortunate when the elderly woman turns out to be the mother of the popular politician Sean Delaney, a champion of children's rights and moral causes, there also happens to be an election looming.

'So, did Martha actually cause the old woman's death? How will her dysfunctional family and best friend Grace, who has her own demons, cope with the unwanted attention from television crews and police investigators? Will Martha get her life back and finish reading Trainspotting?' (Publisher's blurb)

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