Tuesday 24th March 11.00 to 1.00
To launch her new book Snatched.
Win a signed copy of her new book!
‘Wonderfully wicked . . . Suspense intersects brilliantly with savage pop culture satire’
Publishers Weekly
‘Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins’
Manchester Evening News
For more details and tickets ring Whiston Library on 0151 426 4757
Praise for Mandasue Heller’s novels:
‘Wonderfully wicked . . . Suspense intersects brilliantly with savage pop culture satire’
Publishers Weekly
‘Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins’
Manchester Evening News
‘Alarming . . . beguiling . . . exhilarating.’
Scotsman
‘Sexy and slick’
Look magazine
‘Crammed with gangsters and glamour girls this is a sassy take on the usual crime thriller.’
Woman magazine
Mandasue Heller moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents and worked as a singer in bands playing on the local pubs and clubs circuit. It wasn’t until a savage attack on her home and a period of time suffering from illness that that she began to re-evaluate her life and decided it was time to try to fulfil her ambition of becoming a writer.
Mandasue had always loved reading crime novels and so literally sat down one day and wrote about what she knew: hard-hitting tales of life on the estates in Manchester. She sent in her first novel to Hodder & Stoughton and it was bought within a few months. No agent, no contacts in the publishing world, just a woman with a wonderful ability to write and some great stories to tell.
Her debut novel, The Front, was published in January 2002 and received great praise from reviewers, booksellers and readers. Since then she has had six more books published – Forget Me Not, Tainted Lives, The Game, The Charmer, The Club and Shafted – all of which have won her more and more fans.
Mandasue’s eighth novel, Snatched, is being published in March 2009. She continues to live in and write about Manchester.
Hi to everyone at Whiston library, Win and I had a wonderful time talking to you all, and thank you for coming along to meet us - and for your warm hospitality.
Mandasue & Win
Posted by: mandasue heller | April 08, 2009 at 11:06 AM
can you send any info on your books or anything thats on sale for your books, just email thanks
Posted by: Chanelle Williams | July 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Hi mandasue, I am a new writer and have just been published with my first Novel Broken youth.My sequel book is callled Black Tears and is set on the streets of Manchester. You can see my book on waterstones where it has just been voted no 1 in readers review charts. i have an amzzing personal story and would love a chat with you. thanks karen xx
Posted by: karen woods | June 06, 2010 at 02:56 PM
Hi Karen, so sorry I didn't see this earlier, but I've been up to my eyes this last year! Anyway, if you'd like to contact me I have a facebook page, so please do look me up.
Mandasue
ps: same apologies to Chanelle. The Driver came out in September, and I'm working on my new one right now.
Posted by: Mandasue Heller | October 08, 2010 at 01:29 PM
Hi I am a big fan of your books and I was wondering if you would donate a signed copy of one of your books for our ladies luncheon to be held on April 22 2012 (I can forward all the details onto you if you wish along with thank you letters from our previous years)
Thank you for taking the time to read this
Chrissie
Posted by: Christine Anderson | March 01, 2012 at 03:24 PM