The Ballad of Billy Bean - Paperback

by Ian Lewis (Author)

London, 1913. Fourteen-year-old Billy Bean is a thief. He's also a talented street performer, and he's picked up by Fred Karno's music hall company, that features Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin leaves Karno for the movies, and Billy is sent to America to replace him. Billy also wants to work in movies, and soon he gets his lucky break. When his luck runs out and the movie career goes badly, he finds himself back on the streets, with nothing but his childhood skills and a cheeky grin to keep him from starvation.

Author Biography

Ian Lewis is lucky enough to have travelled the world writing and directing documentary films for television, some of which have won awards. Additionally, he has written episodes of the children's animation series, "Mona the Vampire", two feature films, which he also directed, five previous books for children and adults, and many feature articles for print and online publications. He divides his time between rural Herefordshire in England and Vienna, Austria. Visit him on www.storymachine.co.uk.