The Bronte Boy: the book
The Bronte Boy
By Michael Yates
– Now in paperback and on Kindle
Young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation. But it is Branwell’s sinister friend, gravedigger John Brown, who threatens to have the last word in this ultimately terrifying take on the brilliant family we have read so much about and all thought we knew so well.
The Bronte Boy had its world premiere at the Bradford Playhouse in April 2011, as part of a tour by the Encore Theatre company. Other venues were: The Carriageworks theatre in Leeds, The Square Chapel theatre in Halifax, and Wakefield Theatre Royal, venue of the Wakefield Drama Festival, where Warwick St John as Branwell won the Festival’s Best Actor award.
For those who missed the play, this is a chance to own the full text plus an introduction by the author. For those who saw the play, this is a splendid souvenir.
The paperback version – 80 pages with full-colour cover – sells for £6 and can be obtained through most booksellers (ISBN 978-0-9561513-1-5). Or go straight to Amazon:
A recent newspaper tells me that one in 40 of all British adults now owns a Kindle. If you are among the many people who received one for Christmas, you might like to know The Bronte Boy is also available as an e-book.
To buy The Bronte Boy as an e-book click on::
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bronte-Boy-ebook/dp/B006QPIN3O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325522995&sr=1-1#reader_B006QPIN3O
And to buy the e-book of Life Class, my book of 90 poems, click on:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Class-ebook/dp/B006GWDC0G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325522894&sr=1-1#reader_B006GWDC0G
Each e-book costs a mere £2.96.
(If you’re one of those people who like to thumb through the first few “pages” before buying, you can now do so on the same websites.)
By Michael Yates
– Now in paperback and on Kindle
Young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation. But it is Branwell’s sinister friend, gravedigger John Brown, who threatens to have the last word in this ultimately terrifying take on the brilliant family we have read so much about and all thought we knew so well.
The Bronte Boy had its world premiere at the Bradford Playhouse in April 2011, as part of a tour by the Encore Theatre company. Other venues were: The Carriageworks theatre in Leeds, The Square Chapel theatre in Halifax, and Wakefield Theatre Royal, venue of the Wakefield Drama Festival, where Warwick St John as Branwell won the Festival’s Best Actor award.
For those who missed the play, this is a chance to own the full text plus an introduction by the author. For those who saw the play, this is a splendid souvenir.
The paperback version – 80 pages with full-colour cover – sells for £6 and can be obtained through most booksellers (ISBN 978-0-9561513-1-5). Or go straight to Amazon:
A recent newspaper tells me that one in 40 of all British adults now owns a Kindle. If you are among the many people who received one for Christmas, you might like to know The Bronte Boy is also available as an e-book.
To buy The Bronte Boy as an e-book click on::
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bronte-Boy-ebook/dp/B006QPIN3O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325522995&sr=1-1#reader_B006QPIN3O
And to buy the e-book of Life Class, my book of 90 poems, click on:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Class-ebook/dp/B006GWDC0G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1325522894&sr=1-1#reader_B006GWDC0G
Each e-book costs a mere £2.96.
(If you’re one of those people who like to thumb through the first few “pages” before buying, you can now do so on the same websites.)
