The Abandoned Trilogy (Book 1): Twice Dead (Contagion)
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Lewis Hamilton – An amazing racing car driver, it was only fitting that the character of Seb would name his customised chair Lewis in his honour.
www.lewishamilton.com
Dr. Sandra Lee aka The Pimple Popper – YouTuber Superstar – I love Dr. Lee and I had to find a way to reference her in this book!
www.youtube.com/user/DrSandraLee
EastEnders – Very popular and long running BBC weekly British Soap.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d
SKY – Commercial entertainment/Communication system. Perfect for Bee in the SKY technology!
www.sky.com
Apple – What would we do without Apple, even in a Zombie Apocalypse?
www.apple.com
Sports Direct – Low cost sports items.
www.sportsdirect.com
Aldi’s – A popular low cost supermarket which sells the delicious spicy Meatster stick.
www.aldi.com
EBay – What 21st century book doesn’t have EBay in it?
www.ebay.co.uk
Blade: The Series – short lived but popular Vampire series starring Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones.
www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Complete-DVD-Sticky-Fingaz/dp/B0013MYNZ2
Pamela Lyndon Travers, (1889-1996) Mary Poppins – Who can forget that bag that contained everything, including the kitchen sink I suspect!
www.biography.com/people/pl-travers-21358293
XBOX – Lots of Zombie games on the X-Box!
www.xbox.com/en-gb
Makaton – Adapted Makaton is fictional, but Makaton itself is real. “Makaton is a language programme using signs and symbols to help people to communicate. It is designed to support spoken language and the signs and symbols are used with speech, in spoken word order.”
www.makaton.org
‘The Queen’s Hidden Cousins’ - A 2011 Channel 4 documentary that tells the true story of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, the present Queen's first cousins who had severe learning disabilities. At the of 22 and 15 respectively they were both admitted to the Royal Earlswood Hospital, also known as the Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots. It was here they lived and died, Nerissa in 1983, Katherine in 2014. In all that time, they received no visits from any member of their family, including their Aunt, the Queen’s mother who was ironically the Patron of the learning disability charity MENCAP.
www.channel4.com/programmes/the-queens-hidden-cousins.