Pride - Softcover

Zigomanis, Lazaros

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925585247 ISBN 13: 9781925585247

Publisher: Busybird Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them.

'The sky blazed with a golden hue that bathed everything in a soft nimbus. The goalposts shone, the grass sparkled, and the light flecked my skin like I'd been dipped in glitter. I felt peaceful - none of the nerves or excitement I usually had before a game. And it didn't seem at all strange that there wasn't a single fan in attendance, or that curlews covered the entirety of that far wing.

'In the middle of the ground, his back to me, Adam swayed on the spot, a shadow shimmering around him. I knew if he turned, I was going to see something I didn't want to see. Now I felt the first tightening in my stomach, the first irregular heartbeat.'

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Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life - the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, and drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local who's smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can't be too late, can it?

There's the Ravens, at least, although the team's little more than battlers. If only they could take their footy seriously, like the reigning champions, the Little Reach Scorpions. Under their tyrannical coach, Claude Rankin, the Scorpions have dominated the competition for ten years. It seems nothing will be different this season.

But when Adam Pride emerges from the night and tells the Ravens he wants to play for them, everything begins to change.

Pride is a story of friendship and bonds and coming of age, and how the choices of our past can come back to shape our future.

About this title

About the Author

Les Zig is a novelist, screenwriter, and speaker.He has three published novels: Just Another Week in Suburbia (Pantera Press 2017), explores the questions of trust, fidelity, and how well you can ever truly know another person; while August Falling (Pantera Press 2018) is a story about unconditional acceptance, reclaiming the past, and finding a way forward.As 'Lazaros Zigomanis', he wrote the YA novel Song of the Curlew (Pinion Press 2019), a story about dreams, coming of age, community, love, and racism. It has been described by best-selling Young Adult author George Ivanoff as 'an extraordinary book.'Les is also the writer and director behind the half-hour satire mockumentary Little Diva Rising, which has met with great success on the independent festival circuit; the web series The Abnorms, a preternatural take on life in lockdown during the pandemic; and the award-winning action short, The Other Side of Paradise. He's an optioned screenwriter and has had a raft of unproduced screenplays place in over seventy competitions. His stories and articles have also been published extensively.A lifetime writer, Les has a love of storytelling, and has always wanted to tell stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Busybird Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925585247
• ISBN 13: 9781925585247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282