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Derek has not had much success getting his first great novel started – in fact, the research it requires has nearly cost him his marriage and ruined several pairs of his wife’s tights.
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Was Alexander a villain? An injured hero, having survived WW1, dies, unexpectedly, in Glasgow leaving a shameful secret. This six generation mystery starts when Tom visits the loft “looking for the ‘jeely pan’…”
Max is a mouse with many issues.
Max is a mouse with issues.
The question is – is he going to be able to use them?
In a whimsical departure from his successful Sweaty (Children) and Derek (Young Adult) series, Mac Black brings us a quirky new character called Maximillian – a resourceful mouse, with some surprising ideas. This is Book Two in the series – you will find Book One here
Becoming a cat was a surprise to the Reverend Harold Scuffington! From the moment we meet Harold, we can see the immense complications to a man’s life that changing into a cat can bring… especially if it is a cat like Scuffo… If he isn’t under a bed, he is in it and what he sees, hears and experiences will change Harold’s life forever!
Max is a mouse with issues.
Trying to fit in with everyone around him means that Max can’t be himself – in fact, it is downright dangerous being himself – so if he is to carry on living with the horrible cat, Camilla, and Mrs McSkimming, he needs to change himself into someone else…
The question is – is he going to be comfortable with the result?
Book Three in the Sweaty Series Features stories about Derek with his gang in the eighties, quirkily illustrated (by Mac Black), the stories build on Derek’s ability to find disasters and get himself into one mess after another, this time with or without a camera. Sweaty’s tales are about little kids enjoying life, before smartphones and computer games came along. Of course, it is just possible – if you are older than five – that you did all these things yourself…
Derek has not had much success getting his first great novel started – in fact, the research it requires has nearly cost him his marriage and ruined several pairs of his wife’s tights. All he needs is a better topic, maybe he should be writing non-fiction, he is a journalist, after all… As is normal for Derek, things go pretty rapidly and hilariously downhill from there!
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Features stories about Derek with his gang in the eighties, quirkily illustrated (by Mac Black), the stories build on Derek’s ability to find disasters and get himself into one mess after another. Sweaty’s tales are about little kids enjoying life, before smartphones and computer games came along. Of course, it is just possible – if you are older than five – that you did all these things yourself…
Derek has found his calling – a cause to fight for – a disaster to avert… but, this is DEREK… so what can go wrong?
A Challenging Art Colouring Book – Fishy Fantasy Fun sketches by artist Lyn Phillips (Dream Doodles by Lyn) – challenging colourists everywhere. Find fishes inside fishes and dive into intricate patterns and shapes to inspire the imagination of all art lovers. Absorbing and interactive art projects that everyone can enjoy
Adam Simmons provides managers in the public transport sector with practical planning tools to develop & improve their business. Includes railways, ferry, long distance bus/coach and air transport, with advice on pricing, strategy, marketing, linear programming, regression analysis, queuing theory & investment appraisal. These methods apply globally across the industry
Roses are Amber –
More comedy from Derek
Derek Toozlethwaite is a journalist in Newingsworth who is trying to write a book. So far he has failed to find a suitable subject for his book, instead his research has got him into trouble. He’s also been thinking about his past, he’s never known his Mum, Granny and Grandad Smith raised him and there has never been any talk about his Mum. Fans of Derek know that his life if full of crazy adventures and comical characters and to this end we find Derek quickly in trouble stuck sideways inside a caravan in a ditch with Hammy. With the help of the local fire brigade the rusty relic finally finds its way into Derek’s garden.
Café owner Anton, provides Derek with an idea for his book when he reminisces about a local rock band, who once used the café as their meeting place. They later found fame in America calling themselves Rabid Revenge. Derek decides he’ll write up the story behind the band and sets out to hunt down the band members.
There’s a surprising romance for Hammy, another falling out between Derek and wife Sally and Grandad is accused of stalking a lovely young American lady in Bisko’s supermarket. Will Derek get the story he needs? And finally write his book Rabid Revenge Revisited?
Another greatly entertaining book in the Derek series written by Scottish author Mac Black, with his distinctive style of comedy.
A. Rose (Devon & Menorca) –
Derek At His Unwitting Best
This is the third book in the ‘Derek’ series and, for me, the best. The style of this one is a little different from the earlier two Please… Call Me Derek and Derek’s in Trouble in that we go back in time to before Derek’s birth and meet his mother. In the previous two books we only really know that Derek has been brought up by his grand parents having never met his real mother or father although he did have a happy childhood and a good upbringing. The same characters from the earlier two books are all lovingly and credibly in this one and give a great roundness and answers to earlier plot lines. There’s plenty of humour and broad Scottish lingo as you would expect in a ‘Derek’ novel, and also plenty of trouble with his wife.