Page 9 - NEW TITLES JANUARY - MARCH 2024

BEATLES AND BEACONS

Fran Raya

ISBN 978-1-916668-05-8

9 7 8 1 9 1 6 6 6 8 0 5 8
Publication: 25 JANUARY 2024
th
ISBN: 9781916668058
Price: £8.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 127 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FBA Fiction

Author location: Manchester
Comparative title: 9781913208905 Poetic Justice: Fame

• A semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story
following a young girl who becomes aware of
The Beatles at the very beginning of their rise
to fame.
• Through the eyes of a teenager, journey back
to the 1960s for a intimate perspective on the
iconic decade in music and culture.
• This book will strike a chord with readers of
the same generation, as well as younger music
Fran Raya lives in Manchester. Her career has predominantly
been in music and she has performed throughout Europe – fans who may not have experienced
'Beatlemania' at the time.
notably as the support act for Eric Clapton on his Scandinavian
tours in the 1980s. Her poetry has been published in numerous Once upon another time, about a million songs ago, there
anthologies and as a result was awarded her own book, lived a musical group on a teenager’s bedroom wall. These
Thoughts of the Poet. She has also had a series of supernatural persons raided her queendom on an ordinary October day,
thrillers published with The Book Guild. through her dad’s Bakelite wireless. The song they sang
was a tuneful newness and she helped it touch number
seventeen in a memorable chart of yesterday, specifically
1962.

Take a trip across the 1960s through the eyes and mind of
Rebecca Beacon, who is twelve years old when she
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP becomes aware of The Beatles, at the very beginning of
T: 01404 515050 their ascendancy. Her teenage years are exciting but also
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com saturated with angst and harsh realities, made bearable by

Orders: Troubador Publishing her icons as she finds her own musical identity.
Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk
0116 279 2299 This semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story will strike
a nostalgic chord for fans of the same generation, but also
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 17/11/2023 for the many admirers of the band, who are too young to
have witnessed Beatlemania in full flow.