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3 books from Matthew Waterhouse
'Fates, Flowers' - A Comedy of New York
Sara Smith is one of the most monstrous characters you can hope to meet. She lives in Greenwich Village on Life Insurance courtesy of her late husband, but she has fallen into a dreary routine: work in a card shop by day, where she is the rudest sales clerk inaginable, and weary evenings passed in the same cellar bar night after night with the same old people. But when she meets and seduces a gorgeous boy called Steve, she has no idea what she is getting herself into. Neither has he. Neither will you.
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Due for release in May 2010. By pre-ordering this book you help to fund the publication and to show our gratitude your name will be listed at the back of the book, and you will receive a signed, dedicated copy before the book hits the shelves. All books are paperbacks unless otherwise stated.
'Vanitas' - A Comedy of New York
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR...
Your dreams come true...? They did, at any rate, for Florinda Quenby, though not in the way she had planned. When she flew out to Hollywood to become a movie star, she could not imagine the terrible struggles ahead of her, from riches back to rags, or that fame and wealth would finally come from an entirely different quarter,her fantastical soup factory in Harlem modeled on the Taj Mahal... Once she was famous, she became one of New York's grandest hostesses and one of America's most beloved celebrities. Her parties for the Christmas season in her huge, gold-lined apartment overlooking Central park were an unmissable part of Manhattan's social calendar. Those parties grew wilder and wilder every year, until finally she decided to throw one last party, designed to top all the others... This is a tale of ambition and wealth and fame and vanity. This is Florinda's incredible story.
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Due for release in November 2010. By pre-ordering this book you help to fund the publication and to show our gratitude your name will be listed at the back of the book, and you will receive a signed, dedicated copy before the book hits the shelves. All books are paperbacks unless otherwise stated.
'Blue Box Boy' - A Memoir of Doctor Who in Four Episodes
As a boy Matthew Waterhouse loved Doctor Who: he watched all the episodes and read all the novels and comic strips.
What starts as a heart-warming story, of a boy growing up with Doctor Who as his trusted friend, engaging the reader memories and nostalgia that will be familiar to any Doctor Who fan, takes a sudden twist when he is thrust into an alien and adult world - cast as Doctor Who’s youngest ever travelling companion - for two of the series’ most inventive seasons.
Matthew’s sense of wonder with his dream job and his love for the show are palpable; as is his shock at genuine hostilities between cast and crew members and considerable tensions on set, which are counterpointed with poignant reminders that he is just a boy, and still a fan, who finds himself in the absurd, comic world of minor celebrity.
What follows is a story-by-story memoir of his time on the show, peppered with glimpses into Matthew's personal life, tales of conventions, DVD commentaries, and some revealing anecdotes about everyone from fellow actors to Doctor Who’s more high-profile fans.
This memoir holds nothing back: written with honesty, warmth, a rapier wit and a good dose self-depreciation, the book is essential reading for any Doctor Who fan. Finally, we get to hear Matthew's side of a story which has been told and embellished and imagined by fans and fellow actors for years.
This affectionate and darkly humourous memoir is a record of what it was like to make Doctor Who, and to work for the BBC in early 80s, and is proof that you can take the actor out of Doctor Who, but you can never quite take Doctor Who out of the actor...
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Due for release in July 2010. By pre-ordering this book you help to fund the publication and to show our gratitude your name will be listed at the back of the book, and you will receive a signed, dedicated copy before the book hits the shelves. All books are paperbacks unless otherwise stated.
Matthew Waterhouse has written two dark and humourous novels set in New York. We are proud to be publishing these along with his brilliant, honest and hilarious Doctor Who memoir, which covers both Matthew's boyhood interest in Doctor Who, and his two seasons playing Adric alongside Tom Baker and Peter Davison.
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Fates, Flowers - June, £9.99
Blue Box Boy - July - £11.99
Vanitas - November - £9.99
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