Billy Boyd Newton is a passionate author exploring the intricate dynamics of family and the depths of love and romance. With a keen eye for detail and a heartfelt approach, he delves into the complexities of relationships, offering readers insights that resonate deeply. His work reflects a blend of personal experience and universal themes, making his stories relatable and poignant. When not writing, Billy enjoys connecting with others, drawing inspiration from the world around him.

Billy Newton Boyd is a passionate author of juvenile fiction and chapter books, captivating young readers with imaginative tales and relatable characters. With a knack for storytelling, Billy weaves adventures that inspire curiosity and creativity. Drawing from his own childhood experiences, he crafts narratives that resonate with kids and encourage a love for reading.

Most families have their share of stories and folklore. In the case of author Billy Boyd Lavender, one of the most intriguing of these stories revolves around a murder mystery from 1905the deaths of two of his ancestors and the mob lynching that soon followed those deaths.Told from information provided by Lavenders mother, Ruby Neal Hardigree Lavender, and with support from historical documentation, Honorable Heritage recalls events that occurred on a forty-one-acre tract of land i...

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels.In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved i...

The Legend of Mordekai Hagg is a wonderful tale for children and adults to share and enjoy, A fantastic tale of ogres and dwarves, witches, Kelpies and Sylkies and all the mythical creatures of Scotland. Told in verse with a stunning soundtrack, narrated by Billy Boyd (Pippen in Lord of the Rings) and featuring the voices of Jimmy Chisholm #Braveheart and Jimmy Comso, #GameofThrones.Leaving his home in Crooked Spyre, Mordekai Hagg takes a secret pathway through Hackenbark Forest se...

Billy Newton Boyd is a passionate author of juvenile fiction and chapter books, captivating young readers with imaginative tales and relatable characters. With a knack for storytelling, Billy weaves adventures that inspire curiosity and creativity. Drawing from his own childhood experiences, he crafts narratives that resonate with kids and encourage a love for reading.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interv...

“An American classic.” —The New YorkerIn An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his fathe...

A treasury of historical hilarity from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of America's Dumbest Criminals!Why exactly is Paul Revere revered when it was Samuel Prescott who made the famous ride? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? Bestselling author and former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux "facts," strange events, and tales of human stupidity thro...

Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" †“†“ journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume.  Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post.  Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this ...

In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.It was a time of questionable role models, half-baked schemes, and unrelieved and happy chaos.Small Town Indiana: From aggravating the police dog at the county jail t...

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America’s most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings—journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new book in more than twenty years. A...