Bøker av John Phelps

Love, fantasy, humour, athleticism, eccentricity, homelessness, generosity, skulduggery, deceit and even a bit of satire can be found in this varied collection of short stories.A Kind of Magic begins with a highly unusual love story... if you can call it that... and goes on to cover a multiplicity of circumstances that perhaps only a writer of advancing years can claim to know about.The stories vary in length, pace, type and nature of outcome, and the reader is left to guess how much is based on experience and how much on pure imagination.

A new company secretary, brought in by the proprietor to tackle a seaside newspaper's ailing finances, is found battered to death under a disused pier. It soon becomes apparent that the victim, Hubert Weaving, was utterly ruthless in the way he tackled his task and that he had made a lot of enemies. Yet who the killer is remains a mystery.

The setting is the Isle of Andronicus, which is the size of Australia and is ruled by mice. Other rodents are subservient to mice, but superior to other forms of life.

This is a thriller that tells how Frank Pussley, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, arrives in Cambridge after hearing his son has died from a drugs overdose and sets out to discover the truth behind his death. It is a mission fraught with danger.