The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - Part One

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - Part One
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781492985556

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Having moved towns to escape his mothers ex-boyfriend/stalker, Danny is consumed with anger, and he just wants to fight. It's what he does best. He soon makes friends with the local misfits and troublemakers and finds himself embarking on a thrilling musical journey. We follow his exploits with school bullies, the girl from the nice end of town, and his attempts to scare boyfriends away from his beautiful single mother. However things become darker when she is swept off her feet by powerful local nightclub owner, Lee Howard. Danny finds he has met his match; Howard is a dangerous psychopath, who seems to be addicted to violence, and there are very few adults who will believe a word Danny says. The story is told from both points of view, Danny's and Howard's. Who is he, and what does he ultimately want from Danny? With his own personal soundtrack in his head, Danny explores the power of music, how it gives him hope, and becomes an obsession. A story about music, dreams, first love, the friends who would do anything to save you, and the choice between escaping, or fighting back... Set on a council estate in the south of England, in the early 1990s, Danny's story is about one boys fight to survive an increasingly brutal home life, and the hope and inspiration he finds from his friends, the girl he loves, and from his obsession with music. From grunge to Britpop, Danny is on a journey of musical discovery...continues in Part Two

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher: Autharium
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780250428

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Having moved towns to escape his mothers ex-boyfriend/stalker, Danny is consumed with anger, and he just wants to fight. It’s what he does best. He soon makes friends with the local misfits and troublemakers and finds himself embarking on a thrilling musical journey. We follow his exploits with school bullies, the girl from the nice end of town, and his attempts to scare boyfriends away from his beautiful single mother. However things become darker when she is swept off her feet by powerful local nightclub owner, Lee Howard. Danny finds he has met his match; Howard is a dangerous psychopath, who seems to be addicted to violence, and there are very few adults who will believe a word Danny says. The story is told from both points of view, Danny's and Howard's. Who is he, and what does he ultimately want from Danny? With his own personal soundtrack in his head, Danny explores the power of music, how it gives him hope, and becomes an obsession; "I was standing on the edge of a great swelling discovery; music. I felt like I was turning the pages of a good book faster and faster, but that I would never get to the end, I would never discover all of the music." A story about music, dreams, first love, the friends who would do anything to save you, and the choice between escaping, or fighting back…

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - Part Three

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - Part Three
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2019-02-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781795819985

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"Nevermind is playing on my Walkman, in my ears, in my head. I am lost inside the music of yesterday. I have placed the knives around my clothes just like I did before. I have drunk some wine and listened to some music. I am ready."Howard has pushed Danny to the brink, and now he has only murder on his mind. Anthony, however, disrupts his plans and offers an alternative. If Danny accepts Howard's job offer, he can work undercover, and finally get Howard convicted and out of their lives. Desperate to please Anthony, Danny agrees to become what Howard wants. His employee, his son and his protégé. But his new life as a drug dealer is fraught with danger and the temptation of narcotics is too hard to resist. To play his part, Danny must distance himself from his friends, and as his drug use escalates, his grip on reality begins to slip. When a devastating truth is revealed, both Howard and Danny hurtle towards a final brutal climax, where revelations, betrayals and the thin line between love and hate will determine who survives.The dramatic story continues in The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Part Four...

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Two

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Two
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher: Chasing Driftwood Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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'I'd hear a song, and it would cause this utterly jolting and physical reaction inside of me. It would take me over, and it would take me somewhere else.' Now that his mother has married psychotic nightclub owner Lee Howard, Danny is seeking escape in all the wrong places. Befriended by Howard's creepy sidekick Jack Freeman, he keeps his friends at bay for their own safety, and spends his days in a drug-induced haze, relying only on music to keep him going. When Anthony is released from prison, he vows to help Danny escape, and with help from drug dealer Jaime, he soon discovers the vile truth about both men. But will Anthony and Michael be able to help Danny, without putting their own lives at risk? Told from Howard's point of view as well as Danny's; what is it Howard really wants and will Danny ever be able to give it to him? A brutal and violent climax is on the cards when Danny and his friends make a bid for a new life...Howard is not about to let them go that easily... A gritty and uncompromising drama with a life-affirming soundtrack...The story continues in The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Part 3

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Four

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Four
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher: Chasing Driftwood Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Aged 17, Danny was sent to prison for committing a brutal and violent crime. Seven years later he is released, determined to put his disturbing past behind him. He wants to lead a normal, decent life with the friends who stuck by him and his teenage sweetheart Lucy. Danny knew life would be complicated on the outside, and he soon realises the past has not finished with him. His loved ones have all been damaged in different ways by his crime, a nosy reporter is desperate to hear the whole sordid story, and someone else does not think he has been punished enough. As a sinister hate campaign starts to target him and his loved ones, Danny is forced to face the reality of the choice he made seven years ago. When he finally discovers who is out to get him, he must decide how to make amends and whether to give them what they want, risking everything he holds dear in the process. The dramatic story continues in The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Part Five...

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Author: Keith Fleming
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001-04-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0060959304

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At sixteen, Keith Fleming is so miserably defiant that he is locked in an adolescent mental hospital. Filled with despair, Keith's life is literally saved by his uncle, the writer Edmund White. Keith soon finds himself transformed as Uncle Ed arranges treatment for Keith's disfiguring acne, enrolls him in prep school, and instructs his nephew in a worldly view of life and love. Meanwhile, Uncle Ed is both strapped for cash and completely caught up in the beehive of social and sexual activity of 1970s gay Manhattan. By turns lyrical, funny, and poignant, The Boy with the Thorn in His Side is full of fascinating characters and unexpected twists -- at once an odyssey into the extremes of the American 1970s, a universal tale of star-crossed teenage love, and an account of a deeply sensitive young person's struggle to find his place in the world.

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Five

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - Part Five
Author: Chantelle Atkins
Publisher: Chantelle Atkins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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'Music had been my saviour back then...Something that gave me perpetual hope in a very dark and scary world. I always had music. He could never take that away from me. And in the end...he'd given it to me. He'd given me this place.' Danny finally has the life he always wanted: Lucy, his new baby daughter, and ownership of Chaos - the nightclub he adores. His friends and family believe he has put his violent past behind him - but are they right? To secure Chaos, his future and his life, Danny was forced to sign a deal with Jerry Howard, the father of the man he murdered. At first, Danny assumes it's revenge Jerry is after, but it soon becomes clear that Jerry has a far darker plan for him. He intends to finish what his son started by moulding Danny into a fitting protégé and heir to his criminal underworld. Whilst seeking help for his deteriorating mental health, Danny struggles to keep his darkest secrets from his loved ones and tries to appease Jerry. But at what cost? And is killing again the only way out?

The Smiths FAQ

The Smiths FAQ
Author: John D. Luerssen
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 149504596X

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(FAQ). Revered and massively influential, the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987), the cult of the Manchester-reared foursome has ballooned in the three decades since its dissolution. Despite a $75 million offer to reunite for a two month tour in 2007, Morrissey and Johnny Marr, the group's principals, refused, opting to leave their legend untainted. The Smiths have since influenced a who's who of alternative music, including Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, the Killers, Jeff Buckley, Pete Yorn, the Decemberists, and Oasis. Featuring a foreword by guitarist and "Fifth Smith" who played with the band in 1986, The Smiths FAQ traces the band's history with clarity and detail, illuminating such questions as Who were the Nosebleeds? Why did Morrissey shun the Ramones? Who were the Paris Valentinos? What was Cult guitarist Billy Duffy's connection to the band? How was Morrissey injured during the group's U.S. debut performance? What Smiths single paid homage to T. Rex?. John D. Luerssen (author of FAQ series titles about U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Nirvana) gathers the indispensable early facts, the legendary stories, and inimitable anecdotes that make this a must-own tome for all fans.