https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SU%3A%20(AMATEUR%20%2B%20THEATER)&QRYTEXT=Subject%3A%20Amateur%20theater%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=550091&CF=BIB Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There's only one problem-Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she's completely out of ideas. Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but when she realises the arrangement might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her book, she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur, and they're left wondering who will make the real first move. Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There's only one problem-Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she's completely out of ideas. Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but when she realises the arrangement might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her book, she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur, and they're left wondering who will make the real first move.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Blake, Ashley Herring<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Piatkus, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />402 pages ; 21 cm.<br />Bright Falls ; 3.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BLAK - Available - 010936503<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=503336&CF=BIB Harriet Gordon joins a local musical theatre production looking for a change of pace, but the brutal killing of a cast member will force her and Inspector Curran to turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies. Harriet Gordon has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role in the Singapore Amateur Dramatic and Music Society's latest production-Pirates of Penzance. Her work at her brother Julian's school, as well as her job typing up Inspector Robert Curran's police reports, doesn't leave her much time for extra-curricular personal pursuits. But Harriet quickly discovers tensions run deep within the company and when the leading man is found murdered, suspicions abound, exposing not only several scandalous affairs but also widespread fraud that could destroy a prominent businessman. Inspector Curran is glad to have Harriet's help with this difficult case, but as he seeks to uncover the culprit, his own life begins to unravel. A mysterious man turns up on his doorstep claiming to know more about Curran's past than he himself does. And the one person he has always counted on to be his port in the storm has devastating news that will leave him forever changed. Curran needs Harriet's assistance now more than ever and when another player meets a violent end, she and Curran will have to home in on a killer determined to make this case their final curtain call. Harriet Gordon joins a local musical theatre production looking for a change of pace, but the brutal killing of a cast member will force her and Inspector Curran to turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies. Harriet Gordon has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role in the Singapore Amateur Dramatic and Music Society's latest production-Pirates of Penzance. Her work at her brother Julian's school, as well as her job typing up Inspector Robert Curran's police reports, doesn't leave her much time for extra-curricular personal pursuits. But Harriet quickly discovers tensions run deep within the company and when the leading man is found murdered, suspicions abound, exposing not only several scandalous affairs but also widespread fraud that could destroy a prominent businessman. Inspector Curran is glad to have Harriet's help with this difficult case, but as he seeks to uncover the culprit, his own life begins to unravel. A mysterious man turns up on his doorstep claiming to know more about Curran's past than he himself does. And the one person he has always counted on to be his port in the storm has devastating news that will leave him forever changed. Curran needs Harriet's assistance now more than ever and when another player meets a violent end, she and Curran will have to home in on a killer determined to make this case their final curtain call.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Stuart, A. M., 1959-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©20<br />347 pages ; 21 cm.<br />Harriet Gordon mystery ; 3.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - STUA - Available - 010497097<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=515584&CF=BIB Fourteen-year-old Tilly's world is torn apart when her single mother dies suddenly and she is sent a million miles from everything she has ever known to a small country town and a guardian who's a total stranger. In the picturesque mountains of Far North Queensland, Kate is trying to move on from a failed marriage by renovating a van and making plans for an exciting travel escape. The fresh start she so desperately craves is within reach when an unexpected responsibility lands on her doorstep. Ageing former celebrity actress Olivia is used to winning all the best roles in her local theatre group, but when she's injured while making a grand stage exit, she is relegated to the wings. Now she's determined that she won't bow out quietly and be left alone with the demons of her past. These three generations of women form a friendship. Fourteen-year-old Tilly's world is torn apart when her single mother dies suddenly and she is sent a million miles from everything she has ever known to a small country town and a guardian who's a total stranger. In the picturesque mountains of Far North Queensland, Kate is trying to move on from a failed marriage by renovating a van and making plans for an exciting travel escape. The fresh start she so desperately craves is within reach when an unexpected responsibility lands on her doorstep. Ageing former celebrity actress Olivia is used to winning all the best roles in her local theatre group, but when she's injured while making a grand stage exit, she is relegated to the wings. Now she's determined that she won't bow out quietly and be left alone with the demons of her past. These three generations of women form a friendship.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hannay, Barbara<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Melbourne, Victoria] : Michael Joseph Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HANN - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 010578093<br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HANN - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 010578079<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HANN - Available - 010578062<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=527535&CF=BIB When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theatre's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and unenthusiastic, and nobody understands how he got the part. Chaos reigns backstage thanks to the absentminded theatre director. And everyone seems to be harbouring a secret. When one of the actors goes missing for good, it's up to the soon-to-be-a-father Verlaque and his police commissioner, Bruno Paulik, to untangle the threads of a mystery that seems to get more complicated every day... When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theatre's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and unenthusiastic, and nobody understands how he got the part. Chaos reigns backstage thanks to the absentminded theatre director. And everyone seems to be harbouring a secret. When one of the actors goes missing for good, it's up to the soon-to-be-a-father Verlaque and his police commissioner, Bruno Paulik, to untangle the threads of a mystery that seems to get more complicated every day...<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou), 1963-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Penguin Books, [2022]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />293 pages ; 20 cm<br />Verlaque and Bonnet mystery ; 10.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - LONG - Available - 010681243<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=426126&CF=BIB First Impressions: A Contemporary Retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Lawyer Eddi Boswick tries out for a production of Pride and Prejudice in her small Texas town. When she's cast as the lead, Elizabeth Bennet, her romantic co-star is none other than the town's most eligible--and arrogant--bachelor. First Impressions: A Contemporary Retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Lawyer Eddi Boswick tries out for a production of Pride and Prejudice in her small Texas town. When she's cast as the lead, Elizabeth Bennet, her romantic co-star is none other than the town's most eligible--and arrogant--bachelor.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Smith, Debra White<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[United States] : Baker Publishing Group, 2018.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Made available through hoopla<br />1 online resource<br />Austen series ; bk. 1.<br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Ebooks - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 12 Apr 2021) - Access resource<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=486340&CF=BIB Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend, Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a yawn at the production of Babes in the Wood, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten onstage until a trapdoor opens, followed by a scream and silence! Surely this wasn't the way the scene was rehearsed. When it turns out the local baker had been murdered most horribly, Agatha puts her team of detectives on the case. Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend, Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a yawn at the production of Babes in the Wood, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten onstage until a trapdoor opens, followed by a scream and silence! Surely this wasn't the way the scene was rehearsed. When it turns out the local baker had been murdered most horribly, Agatha puts her team of detectives on the case.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Beaton, M. C.<br />Unabridged audio edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2016]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2016.<br />Agatha Raisin mysteries ; 25.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Available online: </span>Click Here to Access eAudioBook<br /><br />Web - (Bayside Library Service) - Eaudio Books - DOWNLOADABLE - check availability online (Set: 11 Oct 2021) - Access resource<br />