New Releases from Mardibooks

An Exciting Day for mardibooks as we release new titles onto Kindle Amazon...

The Loners - Nigel P

The Loners is the story of a band. 

Set in the Medway Towns in Kent during 1978 and 1979, The Loners filters a comic and foul mouthed tale of growing up, friendship, love, school, music and hubris through the eyes of an unnamed fifteen year old narrator, who may or may not be the loner of the title.

The Loners is the name of the band he forms, alongside:

Alastair H Bass – bass (of course, and unwarranted misogyny)

Sebastian Browne – keyboards (and cannabis)

Len White – drums (and horrible curly hair)

Ron Tuck – publicity (and bereavement

The Tank Room - Martin Craig-Downer

Set in Liverpool at the beginning of the nineteen fifties, Matt Dixon is immersed in the world of jazz  moonlighting in bands for beer money and to meet girls. He becomes intimately involved with two women from very different backgrounds. One a fragrant teenage beauty, Yvette, a city girl, promiscuous and precocious with it; the other, Harry, boasting various lovers, the wayward daughter of landed gentry. Matt’s obsession with Yvette is strongly physical, his attraction to Harry more cerebral. Tangled relationships develop against a background of shabby ale houses, jazz clubs, shebeens, orgiastic all-night parties and recreational drug abuse. As the world - still refreshingly free from political correctness moves on, Matt has to decide whether to pursue the structure of a promising career or the nihilistic downward slide towards more sex and an increasingly appealing world of self-destruction.

Have you got what it takes to be a mardiwriter?

Do You Have...

• An original idea?
• The will to pen it?
• The desire to publish it?

...then you could be the next mardiwriter and win a publishing contract in 2012.

mardibooks are running a writing competition for new and existing authors, starting on January 1st 2012 and running till midnight on 31st March 2012 to print TWENTY NEW TITLES in 2012, four from each of the five genres indicated below.

Winners will receive full support free from the mardiwriters’ team, and their books will be released in the second half of 2012.

There are three categories:

□      25+ □      16-24 □      Under 16

Collections from individuals and from groups, schools, colleges are allowed.

Multiple entries are permissible, but each entry is to be accompanied by a separate completed entry form and fee.

There are five Genres:

□      novels (60,000–90,000) words,  

□      collections of poems (maximum 30) 

□      collections of short stories (maximum 20 of 1000-2500 words)

□      drama 

□      non fiction (50,000-90,000) words

To enter, simply download the entry form from link on left, 

complete and email it along with your entry 

and fee of £30 to mardibooks at 

mardiwriters@gmail.com 

by 31st March 2012.