Celia’s Room

Trade fiction (9788461540976, 9780957655140) 252 pp, Poble Sec Books, 2011.

Sex, drugs and deception in the Barcelona night.

“Stunning debut: If you like Kerouac or Isherwood, you will love Celia’s Room.”

Kevin Booth paints an expressionist portrait of the Barcelona night in a year of sex, drugs and deception. Told through their own eyes, sensitive Joaquim—whose passion for painting will propel him into the artist’s life—and cynical Eduardo—addicted to a nightlife that thwarts his ambition to write—unveil a sexualised, surreal cityscape, personified by the enigmatic Celia. Shadowy chapters in Spanish history are revealed in this nocturnal world by an extravagant cast of diverse characters.

Despite their violently contrasting natures, Joaquim and Eduardo both fall under Celia’s aura. The games they are learning to play will draw all three into conflict—against the backdrop of a city that is also rehearsing a new identity—leading them inexorably towards the truth of Celia’s Room.

“Nothing is quite as it seems. This book rejoices in ambiguity and ambivalence, successfully capturing the zeitgeist of Barcelona.”

BCN Free Art 01: The Port and Barceloneta

Series title:

Barcelona Free Art guides

Description:

Premium Colour, 6 x 9 in (229 x 152 mm), Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam. 78 pp., 61 colour photos.

ISBN:

Print: 9780993229800, ebook: 9780993229817

Publisher:

Poble Sec Books

Distributed by:

Ingram

BISAC categories:

ART015100 [Art : History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)], ART015110 [Art : History – Contemporary (1945– )], ART026000 [Art : Sculpture & Installation]

BIC categories:

ACX, 3JJ, WTHM, 1DSE

Blurb (long – back cover):

BCN Free Art 01: The Port and Barceloneta

The idea for these guides sprang from hard times. Whether in boom or recession, art remains fundamental. But while free art is a great idea, not all great art is free. So this guide takes you places where there is no admission fee.

BCN Free Art 01: The Port and Barceloneta guides you around artworks on Barcelona’s waterfront and through the fishing district of Barceloneta, describing the city’s history, the artists who created these sculptures and the stories that bring Barcelona alive.

The Barcelona Free Art guides inform without being academic, helping you enjoy Barcelona’s culture as you wander or cycle around town.

Through the Whirlpool

Young adult fantasy (9780957655171, 9780957655126) 178 pp, 2014.

A lone nomad in an alien ocean battles for survival.

A surfer pulls her brother from a poison slick.

Evil approaches through the whirlpool, threatening death and destruction.

Only by trusting each other can they save their worlds.

Through the Whirlpool – Book I, "Seeking the Jewel Fish".

An environmental series of magical fantasy spanning parallel dimensions. Adventures on the ocean and a fight to subsist on a supernatural tropical island while a poison slick leaches poison from our world into theirs. Kreh-ursh, Jade, Miguel and Kyle must struggle against the restless dead and corporate greed to ensure the survival of their separate worlds.

“… takes me back to the joy of reading Anne McCaffrey as a child. K. Eastkott populates Kreh-ursh’s world with strange and wonderful creatures and yet the sea and the islands that the boy moves between seem as real as anything in our world, so completely has he imagined it.”

Twilight Crosser

Young adult fantasy (9780957655188, 9780957655133) 170 pp, Poble Sec Books, 2014.

Adrift in an alien sea, he must find and destroy the evil attacking his world.

To save her sick brother, she vows to stop a new factory from polluting her home.

Alone, they are helpless. Together, they stand a chance.

Twilight Crosser – Book II, "Seeking the Jewel Fish".

Lake of Stone

Young adult fantasy (9780957655195, 9780957655157) 224 pp, Poble Sec Books, 2016.

Seeking across worlds for his lost friend,
he meets a spirit greedy for what he has: life.

Miguel is pulled through the whirlpool;
Jade is alone in an alien world,
while Kreh-ursh and Kyle lie dying.

To save them she must travel
deep into this unknown land,
even to the lake of stone.

Lake of Stone, Book III, “Seeking the Jewel Fish” – begun in Through the Whirlpool and continued in Twilight Crosser.

100 Meters

A TEFL play about a girl who overcame disability, poverty and racism to become the fastest woman in the world

This is the story of Wilma Rudolph, who they called the “Black Gazelle”. At seven years old, she caught Polio and could no longer walk. But Wilma wanted to play basketball and that is what she did. She eventually became an athlete, winning three Olympic gold medals and breaking a world record at just 20 years old!

Written in clear English at Level CEFR A2, 100 Meters is ideal for lower intermediate English learners and above. Perfect for TEFL classroom readings or student productions, the play emphasizes particular language features and grammar structures. A Teaching Pack is available to download, offering over 15 hours of classroom activities.

First written and premiered in 1992 for the occasion of the Barcelona Olympic Games, 100 Meters was performed over 200 times in Catalonia. Theatrical productions were also mounted in Argentina (1995) and the Canary Islands, Spain (2000) to great acclaim. Publication in 2022 now makes this play available to English language students and theatre-in-education companies worldwide.

This edition is adapted to US English. A UK edition is also available.

ISBNs:
978-1-9999836-5-9 (epub edition)
978-1-9999836-6-6 (Lightning Source edition)
978-1-9999836-4-2 (KDP edition)

94 pages, black & white photos, 6" x 9" (152.24 x 228.86 cm).