Award-winning author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce will be signing copies of his new book in Southport this week!
People can meet the much-loved children’s author at Waterstones bookshop on Chapel Street in Southport from 12pm on Friday 28th July 2023.
Many will know him from being the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London.
Dad-of-seven Frank, who was born in Bootle, will be signing copies of his brand new book, The Wonder Brothers, which is inspired by Blackpool.
The book, published by Pan Macmillan, tells the story of two diminutive magicians who set out to retrieve the vanished Blackpool Tower.
They wind up in Las Vegas with a world-famous illusionist in this hilarious and heartwarming story from the author of Millions and Noah’s Gold.
‘Maybe you don’t believe me. Maybe you don’t believe in magic. I bet you will by the time you’ve heard what happened to us.’
Cousins Middy and Nathan love magic. The on-stage, cape-swirling, bunny-out-of-a-hat kind.
For Middy, it’s all about patience and practice. She uses magic skills to help her out of tricky situations.
Nathan is a show-off and a total danger magnet, he is drawn to the sensation, spectacle and audience.
So when the famous Blackpool Tower dramatically vanishes the night of the Grand Lights Switch-On, showman Nathan announces live on TV that they will magic it back home.
With a stick of rock, a spangly cape, and a bit of misdirection, they end up lost in Las Vegas, home to the grand master of illusion, Perplexion, ‘Legend of Magic’.
Full of tricks, twists and deceptions, the delightful Nathan and Middy will keep you guessing until the very end.
As a successful screenwriter as well as novelist, there has always been lively interplay between the page and the screen in the work of Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
Wonder Brothers by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Cutting his teeth on staff writing jobs on Coronation Street and Brookside, he moved into writing for film with a productive working relationship with the director Michael Winterbottom.
His debut children’s novel, Millions, was adapted from his screenplay of the same name for the Danny Boyle-directed movie and scooped the 2004 Carnegie Medal.
In 2012 he won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, a critically acclaimed novel about two Mongolian refugee children trying to fit in at their Liverpool school. Frank Cottrell-Boyce was also commissioned by Ian Fleming’s estate to write a series of sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the first of which came out in 2011.
He is an advocate for reading aloud and patron of The Reader Organisation, a charity that works through volunteers to bring literature to everyone, through reading aloud in prisons, care homes and other community spaces.
- Waterstones is at 59 Chapel Street, Southport town centre, PR8 1AL. Phone: 01704501088.
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