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Eleven-year-old schoolboy, Roy Nuttersley has been dealt a pretty raw deal. While hideous parents show him little in the way of love and affection, school bullies make his life a misery. So Roy takes comfort in looking after the birds in his suburban garden, and in return the birds hatch a series of ambitious schemes to protect their new friend.
As with the best-laid plans, however, these get blown completely off course - and as a result the lives of both Roy and his arch tormentor, Harry Hodges are turned upside down. While Harry has a close encounter with God, Roy embarks on a voyage of discovery that draws in and impacts on everyone around him, including the local police, his headmaster and the national media. Where will it all end, and will life ever be quite the same for Roy Nuttersley? "A delightful fairy story that deals sensitively and compellingly with modern-day issues like homelessness, single mums and abusive parents." George Layton, actor, author and screenwriter |
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Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living a comfortable, suburban life in leafy North West London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. While most passengers in his carriage are killed, Michael survives the explosion but is confined to a wheelchair as a result. Coming to terms with his predicament and controlling his own feelings of guilt as a survivor conspire to push him in a direction that is out of character and a tad reckless. In a quest to seek retribution, he resorts to embracing the internet and posing as a radical Islamist in order to snare potential perpetrators. Much to his surprise, his shambolic scheme yields results and is brought to the attention of both GCHQ and a terrorist cell. But before long, dark forces begin to gather and close in on him. There is seemingly no way out for Michael Hollinghurst. He has become, quite literally, a sitting target.
"Well paced thriller that kept me wondering how things would turn out. It is clearly well researched and the ultimate resolution took me by surprise." Goodreads |
To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, Ideas Tap and Mardibooks joined forces and held a national short story writing competition, the theme of which was 'conflict'. Among the 23 winning entries selected by the panel of judges was Alex Pearl's 'Scared to Death' - a fictionalised account of the first British serviceman to be executed for cowardice. Private Thomas Highgate was the first of 306 members of the British armed forces to be executed for cowardice, dereliction of duty or desertion. He was just 19 years of age. In November 2006, the UK government pardoned all 306, but to this day Thomas Highgate's name remains conspicuously absent from his home town's war memorial in Shoreham, Kent
"Really enjoyed these stories, some more harrowing than others, but brilliant all the same! Authors from all backgrounds provide something for everyone in this collection of war stories - well worth a read!"
Amazon
"Really enjoyed these stories, some more harrowing than others, but brilliant all the same! Authors from all backgrounds provide something for everyone in this collection of war stories - well worth a read!"
Amazon
This eclectic selection of blog posts from Alex Pearl's popular blog won't fail to move and amuse. Whether conveying the eccentricities of village cricket, the quirkiness of British advertising, or the surprising hospitality of hotels in North Korea, Pearl's prose will draw you in and leave you wanting to come back for more.
"Brilliant collection of blog posts! Enjoyed reading them all. Each one unique in its own way. Definitely recommend this book to anyone who fancies an interesting easy read. Would make a very good stocking filler."
Amazon
"Brilliant collection of blog posts! Enjoyed reading them all. Each one unique in its own way. Definitely recommend this book to anyone who fancies an interesting easy read. Would make a very good stocking filler."
Amazon
These author interviews initiated by Alex Pearl during the Covid epidemic started as a small lockdown project. But before long, Alex’s requests for author interviews on social media elicited an overwhelming response, and the project soon took on on a life of its own.
Within these pages, authors from a wide spectrum of backgrounds wax lyrical about their backgrounds, motivations, and working methods. Among this throng, self-published newbies rub shoulders with award-winning bestsellers from all corners of the globe, including the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Israel and Sri Lanka.
They provide a fascinating insight into this mysterious process of creating imagined worlds on the page.
"This is an unusual book - 100 interviews with writers, who talk expansively of their techniques, motivations, early experiences and, in fact, anything else that explains how, why, where and when they write books. Each one is fascinating and, taken together, this venture is refreshingly novel. I think it should attract a wide readership among would-be scribblers, authors, students and many readers."
Goodreads
Within these pages, authors from a wide spectrum of backgrounds wax lyrical about their backgrounds, motivations, and working methods. Among this throng, self-published newbies rub shoulders with award-winning bestsellers from all corners of the globe, including the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Israel and Sri Lanka.
They provide a fascinating insight into this mysterious process of creating imagined worlds on the page.
"This is an unusual book - 100 interviews with writers, who talk expansively of their techniques, motivations, early experiences and, in fact, anything else that explains how, why, where and when they write books. Each one is fascinating and, taken together, this venture is refreshingly novel. I think it should attract a wide readership among would-be scribblers, authors, students and many readers."
Goodreads
It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has been waging war on the Argentinians in the Falkland Islands. The miners are about to wage war on Margaret Thatcher. And Angus Lovejoy, once sent down from Charterhouse for shagging the Chancellor's daughter in the cricket pavilion, has now landed himself a job as a copywriter at London adland’s creative hot shop Gordon Deedes Rutter where he is teamed up with art director Brian Finkle whose neurotic Jewish parents are the bane of his life. The two are an unlikely duo, but their mischievous and sardonic take on the world makes them a brilliant creative team. Everything goes swimmingly until a bizarre and mysterious murder rocks the world of Gordon Deedes Rutter and ripples out into the national media.
While the dearth of evidence leaves the police baffled, Lovejoy and Finkle take it upon themselves to apply their creative brains to solve the mystery, and in so doing, inadvertently get themselves into particularly deep water.
"I regard this as a comic masterpiece. Set in 1983, it paints a convincing picture of those times in an ad agency in Soho, where the 'creatives' are battling against the below-the-line and other branding marketeers. The dialogue fairly crackles with great jokes and wordplay. Roundabout half way through, and amidst all the fun, the main murder occurs. The resolution of the plot is very clever and the dialogue remains amusing right to the end. Humour is difficult to predict, but I reckon you'll love this!"
Smashwords
While the dearth of evidence leaves the police baffled, Lovejoy and Finkle take it upon themselves to apply their creative brains to solve the mystery, and in so doing, inadvertently get themselves into particularly deep water.
"I regard this as a comic masterpiece. Set in 1983, it paints a convincing picture of those times in an ad agency in Soho, where the 'creatives' are battling against the below-the-line and other branding marketeers. The dialogue fairly crackles with great jokes and wordplay. Roundabout half way through, and amidst all the fun, the main murder occurs. The resolution of the plot is very clever and the dialogue remains amusing right to the end. Humour is difficult to predict, but I reckon you'll love this!"
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