Hello and welcome. If you don’t like to read books please forward a link for this site to anyone who might appreciate it. But if you do enjoy reading, and take pleasure in discovering new authors, read on. Having done so, please then spread the word to all and sundry. 

During Covid Lockdown I wrote my first book, The Same but Different, a light-hearted memoir describing how the world has changed during my lifetime. After multiple reworks, I self-published on Amazon in October 2023. I then tried my hand at fiction, somehow finding myself working on two creations in tandem. Both are now finished and available on Amazon although I have yet to make any attempt at introducing them to the outside world. Hence this website.

All three can be bought through Amazon where you can read for free the opening chapters of each.

Paperback and electronic versions are available. Ebooks are significantly cheaper and can be read on your tablet or computer. A free reader can be downloaded from Amazon.  (Available HERE .)

If you are kind enough to buy a book, thank you. I would also really appreciate it if you could take the time to write a review, that’s the key to the whole Amazon queuing algorithm and getting my books noticed.

Now to the books they are:

THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT: Observations on how the world has changed since 1955 with the main aim of entertaining and stimulating the memory cells of less-young readers.   An admittedly more hopeful objective is that the book might help younger readers to understand some of what their parents and older relatives are going on about.          For a more detailed description click HERE, or HERE if you’d like to read the opening chapters.

SIMON SAYS: A murder mystery set in the village of Allthorp, a farming community where, historically, a stolen bike, a little poaching or an occasional alcohol-fuelled dispute is all the local constabulary have to deal with. Until, that is, a recently returned resident is found murdered outside his deceased parents’ house and everything changes. A serial killer is on the prowl, but is it an outsider, possibly an American hitman, a psychopathic eco-warrior, or someone closer to home, perhaps one of the giant vegetable growers?          For a more detailed description click HERE, or HERE to read the opening chapters.

PERCY’S POSSE: A feel-good story about the people of Chitley. The central plot concerns the exploits of a mismatched group of residents comprising a grumpy octogenarian, a retired investigative journalist and a gang of teenaged skateboarders, as they try to expose a web of corruption. As things progress, the gang find their path crossing with professional criminals and two killers to boot.          For a more detailed description click HERE, or HERE to read the opening chapters.

Comments are always welcome. I can be contacted by email on ashleyparkes9@btinternet.com