A PACK OF SAFTNESS
Greg Stokes
Gil had been standing on Fifth avenue unable to move
for people.
"There's more than five bloody families here, kid," he'd told Gerry.
A Pack Of Saftness is a spoof detective novel set in a
fictitious Black Country republic, independent of England, known affectionately
as the BC. A Pack of Saftness introduces Inspector H McDonald - Riffy H -
head of homicide of the BCPD.
The caper follows Riffy H as he pursues a serial killer who is wasting members
of the local ecological group Green Henry like it is going out of fashion and
the fact the local crime syndicate are involved in a cultural exchange with the
New York mafia only clouds the issue.
A Pack Of Saftness, being part one of The Pantechnicon, is... a right ruddy pack
of saftness.
A5 paperback, comb bound. 104 pages £5.50 (70p p&p)
ISBN 1 904552 06 4
Illustrated by Black Country dialect poet Billy
Spakemon
Royalties from this book go to Breast Cancer Care and the Breast Clinics at
Sandwell General Hospital, and City Hospital Birmingham.
THE HAIRY MOUSE
Clarice Hackett
"Are you longing for your roots Doris?"
Harriet asked.
"I'm not surprised, the Black Country isn't a very
pleasant place to live in."
"'Etty', it said urgently. 'Etty it's me, Emily, your mother.
Speak to me Etty or the contact will be lost.'"
From
The Hairy Mouse
A second novel from Clarice Hackett set
at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries telling of two entrepreneurs who join
forces to open a new coal mine. They want to keep it in the family so a marriage
is planned between their offspring. But a complex web of deceit emerges
involving questions of spiritualism, inheritance and love. In short another
brilliant piece of writing from Clarice Hackett describing in vivid fashion a
bye gone Black Country.
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A5 comb bound book; 168 pages; £6.00
(plus 80p p&p)
ISBN 1 904552 05 6
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THE SPORTSMAN
Clarice Hackett
"Well if you want my opinion George you could have done a lot
worse than Rose."
Ma Harris in The Sportsman
Based on the life of George Harris who became a local sports legend. Through playing for VILLA, ALBION and COVENTRY he achieved the working man's dream of owning his own pub which he renamed THE SPORTSMAN. The novel tells the tale behind the headlines.
Clarice Hackett's writing brings to life the early years of the 20th century; the coal and steel; the heat and the noise; the poverty and deprivation… and above all the passion for sport which drove men like George Harris.
But George was driven by other passions too. The prospect of a marriage into respectability paves the way for a secure future…. Will things go George's way, or will they go the way of
Rosannah, barmaid at George's local.
The Sportsman is a story of love unrequited which displays a passion for life set against the grim backcloth of the Black Country at the turn of the last century.
"I'm regularly asked to recommend reading which would give a quick dose of life as it was… This novel fills that request better than anything else that comes to mind."
Stan Hill, The Blackcountryman
"This story has everything, it should be made into a film or TV programme…"
WABC Radio
A5 paperback; 112 pages; £4.50 (plus 70p p&p)
ISBN 0 9520317
2 8
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TRIED BY PREJUDICE
Greg Stokes
"He just lay there motionless, blood oozing from his head. I thought he was
dead."
Ken Simmons in Tried by Prejudice
A Midlands community watch in horror as children are picked off one by one by an unknown killer while in a Gulf state the ex-pat community look on approvingly as the locals administer justice..... then rough justice strikes someone they know while at home the people have their culprit..... Or do they?
Tried By Prejudice is a powerful drama set in the Arabian Gulf and English west midlands. It is a tale of murder, revenge, justice, and a torrid love affair between people who just won't go with the flow, people who won't look on while others are Tried By Prejudice.
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full synopsis click here
A5 paperback; 112 pages; £4.99
(plus 70pp&p)
ISBN 0 9529317 4 4
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