BOOKS BY ALEX PEARL
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
"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
"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
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."
Smashwords
It’s 1984. Princess Diana has just given birth to her second child. The legendary comic Tommy Cooper has died on stage (quite literally). And Angus Lovejoy and Brian Finkle are gloriously oblivious to it all as they strive to enthral the nation with their television commercials for the advertising agency Gordon Deedes Rutter. But all is not as rosy as it might seem in the frenetic world of Soho. Following a disastrous presentation to a manufacturer of diarrhoea tablets, Lovejoy and Finkle let off steam by playing cricket for an old school friend - but in doing so, stumble upon a nest of vipers involving a gay vicar, a small-time antique fraudster, a photographer, and blackmail. There can only be one outcome and it’s going to entail murder.
"Pearl has written a very funny and compelling page-turner. 11 out of 10!" Jeremy Dein, K. C. and presenter of the BBC's award-winning series Murder, Mystery and My Family
Hugh Salmon, playwright and co-founder of lovereading.co.uk
Daniel Norcross
"Cricket anthologies don't come along that often and this one is unusual, in that readers are unlikely to have encountered the pieces. There are stories, with ingenious twists, reminiscences, historical pieces, poems and essays. Among the smattering of well known names are crime writers, journalists and other writers who have never written on cricket before. This makes for a unique collection and I suspect readers will be delighted by the quality of the writing. Dan Norcross recognises this in his splendid Foreword. The book deserves to do well, especially as the authors are donating royalties to Surrey's charitable foundation."
Amazon
