Alan will be speaking at the Linton Book Festival on Sunday 11th May 2008 from 13:15. For further details and to visit the Linton Book Festival site please click below:

http://www.lintonbookfest.org



Alan Shea is a new author, whose debut book The Amazing Mind of Alice Makin is publishing in March.

It's a fantastic story about a girl called Alice in post-WW2 London and her extraordinary imagination.

Twelve-year old Alice is growing up in a grey world of old bombsites, in post war London. It’s a tough life made harder by her difficult step-dad.

Alice’s escape is her imagination, which always brightens her day. But when a new boy called Reggie starts school, her mind begins playing tricks on her. She seems oddly drawn to him and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting and colourful place.

A place where imagination appears to becomes real: where a bubble-gum machine can suddenly explode into a thousand coloured balls, a handful of fireworks become the greatest show ever, and a row on the lake becomes a terrifying adventure.

The book is for boys and girls aged 9+. Alan is an ex-head teacher with a really interesting background, and is expected to give a great talk for both children and adults.