13 Weeks by V.K. Wallstreet
13 Weeks is a raw comedy that follows the adventures of seven university students during the course of their final semester before graduation. Written by former medical student V.K. Wallstreet, 13 Weeks chronicles life in Australia’s middle-class as privileged, partially driven lives casually revolt against the cultural homogeny that surrounds them. Set in Sydney at the turn of the millennium, 13 Weeks revolves around ladies man, Brian, and his quest to regain his mojo after an attempted suicide. This mesmerising novel is a witty exploration of sexuality and independence – a sublime portrait of a nearly-lost generation.
13 Weeks will be available in the Hendlin Books Online Store from October 2010 and in bookstores around the world November 2010.
Faulkner’s Pillow by Kenneth Slattery
The Cuban Missile Crisis is minutes into the past as President Kennedy secretly agrees to remove all missiles set in Turkey on the border of the Soviet Union. The old rules no longer apply. In a palatial villa in Palm Springs, seven debonair middle-aged women lounge with champagne cocktails, aware that they are responsible for the worldwide terror.
Jack Faulkner is Madison Avenue’s biggest ad man – and ladies’ man. One afternoon Jack awakes by a pool he does not recognise – his tuxedo wrinkled, his Johnnie Walker teetering on the lip of the glass. A glass door slides open. Jack takes a moment to adjust to the glare.
“Come in, Jack.” He hears as a woman holding a large cocktail comes into view. “Time to give the dog his bone.”
Faulkner’s Pillow will be available in the Hendlin Books Online Store from October 2010 and in bookstores around the world November 2010.
Warm Coffee by Jenny Stevens
The world of fading adolescence provides the backdrop for Jenny Stevens’ engrossing tale of love and hate. Starting a coffee shop in hip loft-laden Soho is nearly impossible at the best of times, but childhood friends Mel and Tina’s arrival in New York City from a small town is more than they expected – a situation that ultimately leads to violence, a confession and a betrayal of trust.
Narrator Gina Lee’s ability to switch seamlessly from the perspective of a teenager tormented by feelings she doesn’t want to understand to the reflective musing of a woman looking back at the formative experience of her young adulthood provides both the story and the setting with an immediacy that quickly engages listeners. Not only does Lee give a distinctive voice to each of the main characters, she also delineates the mannerisms and personalities of the coffee shop’s customers and the city surrounding them.
Warm Coffee will be available in the Hendlin Books Online Store from October 2010 and in bookstores around the world November 2010.
Light On The Screen by Liam Walker
Light is the genesis of everything. Light defines us. Its meaning is universally acknowledged and is intertwined with all knowledge. Light On The Screen explores light’s significance in expanding human consciousness through the medium of film. From Keaton and Chaplin through to Scorsese and Cameron, light is the ever-present entity illuminating us, while also shining from within. Light On The Screen explores the role of our most valuable natural resource in our most powerful mass communicative medium.
Liam Walker’s talent for brilliant, reality-bending explanations brings a far deeper wisdom and maturity to cinematic appraisal and poses important questions that reach beyond the old conceits of the genre. Light On The Screen brings the palpable cinematic qualities of quantum physics and humanism to the fore, and in a swirl of smooth motion, sublimely reveals the beauty of the inner cosmos.
Light On The Screen will be available in the Hendlin Books Online Store from October 2010 and in bookstores around the world November 2010.
Überstar II: The Movie by Dr Vaughn Alaine-Marshall
Überstar II: The Movie, the sequel to the best-selling hit by Dr Vaughn Alaine-Marshall, delivers the second punch in this three part series. In this illuminating comedy, Überstar II: The Movie takes you behind-the-scenes of an independent feature film as the newly crowned Überstar sets the silver screen alight. Überstar II: The Movie explores the myths of film production, the film industry and continues to deconstruct the idea that bright is right.
Überstar II: The Movie retains many of the characters that made Überstar so famous and adds a few more – again showcasing Dr Alaine-Marshall as a master of character ensemble interplay. Überstar II: The Movie leaves nothing hidden, answering the greater questions posed by sociology, the media and the quantum unknown – making this seamless novel a vibrant multiple-personality giggling at our modern world…
Überstar II: The Movie will be available in the Hendlin Books Online Store from June 2011.
