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Run by Mandasue Heller is a gritty story of Manchester's criminal underworld.
Born in Warrington, Mandasue Heller spent many of her childhood
years performing in am-dram productions, appearing in plays and
pantomimes, and singing in an Old Tyme Music Hall troupe. This love
of the stage carried through to adulthood, and at 18 she began to
tour working men’s clubs with her country & western band, Missouri
Sunshine. She joined Equity during that time, and regularly
appeared in such shows as Coronation Street, Brookside, Albion
Market, Watching, Boys From The Blackstuff, etc.
After moving to Manchester in the early 80’s, she immersed herself
in the underground music scene, fronting an original rock band, and
session-singing for various blues, soul, and jazz bands. Forced by
illness to temporarily quit singing in the 90’s, she turned her
hand to writing, using the notorious Hulme Crescents, where she had
spent her first 10 years in Manchester, as the backdrop.
Her first written piece concerned a real-life incident, when a man
had broken into her house in the early hours and attacked her as
she lay sleeping with her 10 week old son in her arms. He hit her
on the head with a claw-hammer, fracturing her skull and leaving a
5” gash. But it was the psychological after-effects that affected
her most deeply, and she hoped that writing about it would exorcise
the hold it still had over her. The finished piece was too personal
for anybody else to read, but she had enjoyed the process of
writing, so decided to try her hand at fiction instead - and her
first book, The Front, was snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton. She
has written 13 books since then, and is currently working on the
14th.
Mother to 3 grown children, and grandmother of 3, Mandasue still
lives in Manchester, and spends her time between books and family
commitments locked away in the studio, writing and recording music
albums with her producer/musician partner, Wingrove Ward. Colleen
Prendergast is a RADA-trained actress with 30 years of experience
voice acting in audiobooks and video games. Her vocal talents
appear in games like The Witcher, Memento Mori and Venetica. She is
the recipient of an Earphones Award for Paula Daly’s Clear My Name.
Colleen also writes, directs and is a regular voice in the grimdark
world of Warhammer 40,000. Other narration titles include Ann
Cleeves's Burial of Ghosts and The Perfectly Imperfect Woman by
Milly Johnson.
'One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a
blinder.'
*Daily Mirror*
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