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Stuart Reid is a Scottish writer and the author of the Gorgeous George series of children's books. Background Reid lived in Dubai for two years, working as a manager for the Premier Inn hotel chain. He managed the chain's first hotel outside Britain, a 300-room hotel in Dubai. In 2009 Reid decided to return to Scotland with a plan to make a living writing books for children. Gorgeous George Reid's first book Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator was released in 2011. It is the story of a fictitious town where people go missing, and the main character sets out to find them. The book was illustrated by Calvin Innes. Innes, then still a student at university, decided not only to illustrate the book but to found a publishing company, My Little Big Town (MLBT), to publish it. The company was launched in 2011 at the Enterprise Centre of Hull University. Performances Reid promotes his books by speaking at schools and children's events, and has performed at schools in Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia. According to The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, Australia, Reid "has found a clever way to sell more books" by travelling the festival circuit doing funny talks about books and writing for kids. He has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Adelaide Fringe. Personal life Reid lives near Falkirk with his wife and their two daughters. Gorgeous George books Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator (2011) Published by My Little Big Town Gorgeous George and the Zigzag Zit-faced Zombies Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and the Unidentified Unsinkable Underpants Part 1 Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and the Unidentified Unsinkable Underpants Part 2 Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and his Stupid Stinky Stories Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and the Jumbo Jobby Juicer (2017) Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and the Timewarp Trouser Trumpets Published by Gorgeous Garage Publishing Gorgeous George and the Incredible Iron-Bru-Man Incident References External links Stuart Reid on Twitter A Writers' Responsibility: How I Get Young People Interested In Reading, Stuart Reid on HuffPost. Discover the Stuart Reid popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stuart Reid books.
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Crossing America
Stuart Reid<p> This is a travelogue of our drive across America in the late summer of 2012. It began as a ‘today we are here” email to family and friends. We added commentary, map...
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Food You Will Eat In Paris
Stuart ReidI wrote this guide for my own use when I return to Paris. It turned out so well I decided to publish it so others could use it and add their suggestions, edits, and ideas so we can...
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Faces and Places of Paris
Stuart ReidThis is a collection of impromptu “street photos” taken as I walked the streets of this most photogenic of cities. My Parisian friend JeanFrançois (Jeff) Labrouche, who is a world ...
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Big Love
Brooke BlurtonA raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities'Powerful, heartbreaking an...
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Silberne Geister
Silvia Moreno-GarciaBedrohliche Séancen, hochentzündliche Filmrollen und ein untoter Okkultist der Nazis – und mittendrin eine ungewöhnliche Protagonistin mit einer Vorliebe für Horrorfilme.+++Jetzt z...
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Latin Quartier of Paris
Stuart ReidDon’t bring your Latin dictionary to the Latin Quartier– they don’t speak Latin. But, they did. For more than a thousand years. Even the ladies of the night conducted business in L...
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Heart of the Patriot
Stuart W. ReidHeart of the Patriot is a World War 2 thriller set in Arnhem , Netherlands in summer 1944 which follows a young Dutch secret agent and the German SS officer he has been sent to ass...
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The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
C.S. Robertson'A dark, disturbing and highly original thriller' MARK BILLINGHAM'Haunting, twisted and compelling' C.L. TAYLOR'Clever, dark, unusual and full of genuine surprises' LOUISE BEECH'On...
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Till Death Do Us Part
Laurie Elizabeth FlynnThe author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows u...
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Driving on the Left in Britain
Stuart ReidIn Britain, they drive on the the lefthand side of the road. For visitors who drive on the righthand side in their home country, this is a challenge. I was shocked to learn that ma...
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The Lumumba Plot
Stuart A. ReidThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thrillerabout the U.S.sanctioned plot to assassinate the dem...
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Lyric Hound
Stuart ReidRock ’n’ Roll was the theme music to the baby boomer’s cultural revolution that changed the world. It was rebel music that raised the hackles of parents and the establishment. Whil...
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Eiffel Tower
Stuart ReidIt struck me as we climbed the Eiffel in its centenary year of 1989, that my grandfather was a teenager in Scotland when Gustave Eiffel complete his tower. My father and mother cli...
