Jon Franklin
@racingtales
Author of Shouting The Odds & Manvers Road Star. Music buff, former racecourse photographer for Goodwood & Epsom among others. Enjoy books, the arts & film. Husband and dad.
⭐️ 5 – MARSHA A DAUGHTER, A MOTHER, A SECOND CHANCE? She thought she had left the past behind. But some stories have a way of finding their way home. In Manvers Road Star, the journey of one racehorse becomes the catalyst for an unexpected reunion. Every star has a story. #BookSky #Horseracing
3 ⭐️ - LEE CHAN, 4 ⭐️ - SAMMY CHAN WORK HARD. PLAY HARD. HAPPINESS & SUCCESS WILL FOLLOW. Owners of The Flying Dragon, neighbours to the betting shop, and believers in one simple philosophy: work hard. Play hard. Happiness and success will follow. Two more of the Nine ⭐️ Stars from Manvers Road Star.
@steeplechasing.bsky.social ⭐️ - RITA THERE FROM THE VERY START Not everyone who works in a betting shop dreams of staying there. Rita has plans, compassion and quiet determination-but life rarely follows the script we write for ourselves. Every star represents a life.
⭐️ 1 - DES FROM BRIDGETOWN TO BEESTON Des crossed an ocean to build a new life in Nottingham. Years later, he has lost contact with his daughter and grandson, and wonders if it's too late to put things right. Nine stars. Nine lives. One unforgettable story. #manversroadstar #Bluesky
⭐️ NINE STARS Why are there nine red stars on the racing silks? Each star represents a life. Over the coming weeks I’ll introduce the people behind each one.
Whether or not you have ever placed a bet before, chances are you have ended up here at least once in your life, forced into gambling on your future. This is what Andy Cooper, my protagonist did - the question is, did it pay off …. ? Take a chance on Shouting The Odds. Half-price kindle at £1.99!!
#booksky For any readers out there who enjoyed Syndicate by Felix Francis, might I recommend my own book Manvers Road Star, an adventure about a group of friends who buy a racecourse together. The kindle version is currently on sale for £1.99, half its usual price, available on Amazon/kdp.
Readers who have recently purchased #manversroadstar are also buying Sacrifice : A Year in the Life of a Champion Jockey about the brilliany #oisinmurphy and #shoutingtheodds. Nice to be keeping such esteemed company! #author #writerslife #writerscommunity #horseracing
Amazon readers who recently bought Manvers Road Star are also buying Dark Horse by Felix Francis and Shouting The Odds. #author #book #books #writerscommunity
Shouting The Odds and Manvers Road Star are available to buy via Amazon, or if you prefer from the likes of Waterstones (UK), Barnes and Noble (USA), Adlibris throughout Scandinavia and Booktopia in Australia. If you love racing, you will love these books wherever you are in the world 🌎
Looking for a good book for the #horse lover in your family this Christmas? 🎄 look no further! Manvers Road Star and my previous novel Shouting The Odds can be bought via Amazon, Waterstones and Barnes and Noble as well as via many other leading book stores #horseracing #book
#horsecommunity #horse #horses #equestrian #horseracing #equestrian Manvers Road Star is a book that celebrates the special bond between humans and horses. You can buy it via #Amazon #waterstones and #barnesandnoble - the perfect Christmas stocking filler for the horse-mad fanatic in your life!
Morning horse racing fans around the globe 🌍 A QUESTION: How many of you can name the racecourse where I shot the footage for the insta reel below? Please leave your answer in the comments … #horseracing #horse #equestrian #betting
’A love of of our great sport shines from every page of Franklins’ writing.’ ( Catherine Macrae, the Racing Post). www.amazon.co.uk/Shouting-Odd... #horseracing #writerscommunity #author
Shouting The Odds and Manvers Road Star are available for purchase via Amazon KDP, Waterstones, Barnes and Noble, Booktopia ans a host of other book shops. If you enjoy your racing, wherever you may be in the world, you are sure to enjoy these books! #horseracing #booklover #writerscommunity
My novel #ManversRoadStar was reviewed in yesterday’s @racingpost.com, bringing it to the attention of its widest audience yet. Twice I have approached the #racingpost for some publicity for my books and twice they have come through 👏👏. Review by Catherine Macrae. #fiction #horseracing
If you love #horseracing #fiction, I am certain you will enjoy this - Manvers Road Star, the perfect #summer #paperback! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.amazon.co.uk/Manvers-Road...
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social @writersguildgb.bsky.social The ability to write a novel sourced from the day-to-day of ordinary life and produce a story with such shine is no mean feat - yet this is precisely what McLoughlin has done with his debut novel. Slings and Arrows is an excellent read.
I’m very much looking forward to this, the next book on my reading list @nickmacwrites.bsky.social - Slings and Arrows, here I come!
Join Andy Cooper from Shouting The Odds in a new adventure, beginning in #sneinton and taking in the #sherwoodforest, #beeston, onwards to #pebblesbeach #barbados & back via #dunstallpark #wolverhampton, before the story reaches its climax at #colwickpark racecourse #nottingham Summer book sorted!
Chester’s excellent May Meeting this week, a racecourse at which they have been racing since 1539, making it Britain’s oldest racecourse. This photograph of Richard Hughes inside Chester’s weighing room I took 467 years later in 2006 - fairly recently you could say, in Chester Racecourse time!
@goonrgrrl.bsky.social Been hoping lately for a review of my new novel MANVERS ⭐️ROAD⭐️STAR from a reader in the USA 🇺🇸 - as well as from a female horse racing fan and, today this happened. Thank you again for your kind words … ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Appreciate this endorsement from Simon Nott regarding my second horse racing fiction adventure, Manvers Road Star ⭐️ Check out Simon’s website and his excellent ‘Simon Nott Zooms In’ series of interviews with personalities from the world of pro-punting: www.simonnott.co.uk #Horseracing #betting
My first book review of Manvers Road Star is up on my Amazon page #kindle #kindleselect #kindleunlimited #amazonreview
Recommended reading by TV & Film screenplay writer, Author & Journalist, Stan Hey. Download it ABSOLUTELY FREE today before 8pm from Amazon UK!
My betting shop ’cult classic’ SHOUTING THE ODDS has received a stylish interior makeover using Vellum software, to bring it in line with my new release, the sequel, Manvers Road Star! Therefore, even if you have bought STO previously, it may be nice to own the ’new’ version - FREE over the weekend!
Keeping #Amazon #KDP delivery drivers busy tonight! Manvers ⭐️ Road ⭐️ Star is up & running! #Indieauthor #writers #fiction
Please forgive my radio silence, while I have been getting my new novel Manvers Road Star finished. It is now LIVE and available for purchase, by clicking the link below! 👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 www.amazon.co.uk/Manvers-Road...