Books by Maggie Hamand

Creative writing, from short stories to novels, travel writing to memoirs, is an imaginative outlet that relieves tensions and creates new worlds. This book is essential reading for all those who have aspirations to write novels, poetry, plays, travel writing and everything in between, but lack the confidence or expertise to get started.

MORNING STAR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020A genre-busting, gender-bending Vatican thriller. What happens when everything you know is thrown into doubt?And you're the Pope?The recently elected Irish Pope Patrick has plans for his future Church. Then he is attacked in St Peter's Square. Cardinals turn against him. Shocking revelations threaten his traditional status and his faith. In this novel where nothing is as it seems, Catholicism and modern morality are held in tension. Pope Patrick has to face challenges and make choices he could never have imagined.'This is a strange and strangely touching novel and it is also written with great elegance and authority. It tackles head on some of the most challenging issues for the Roman Catholic Church around gender and sexuality and at the same time has some of the loveliest, most persuasive, writing about personal prayer that I have ever encountered in fiction.' - Sara Maitland'Virgin and Child cleverly merges crime with Catholicism and piety with a dangerous love. Pope Patrick, the Irish Pope, is famed for his humanity but unaware of the subversive forces plotting his destruction. The novel is wonderfully original and absorbing, from the halls of the Vatican to its explosive conclusion.' - Mary Flanagan

Three Creative Writing titles that will help you become the author you have always wanted to be! The Creative Writing For Dummies Collection includes Creative Writing For Dummies, Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies and Creative Writing Exercises For Dummies.