William Peskett

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Go-go bars as a cultural asset, dentists, chicken’s feet, soapy massage, trousers, being struck by lightning, tattoos, luck, breast enhancements, beards and being a foreigner â€" these are just some of the aspects of living in Pattaya, Thailand’s...

• Jun-2011
• / Action Adventure
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Darry Ash is in antiques, but in a small way. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and daughter. He dreams of escaping from his humdrum life by becoming a successful, published poet, but the rejection slips mount up. Against character, he begins a p...

• Jun-2011
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In Sixties Belfast, civil unrest is in the air. Patrick Glennie, whose mother disappeared mysteriously when he was young, is on a quest. Partly, it's to find himself, to discover his identity as an adult, and in this he is guided through the terrors ...

• Jul-2011
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A photographer hired to witness a murder, a colour-blind sperm donor, a ghost who misses his friends, a Canadian who pretends he’s from Latvia, and a woman sure her children’s will be the last human generation -- these are just some of the fascin...

• Jul-2011
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This is a selection of the best of William Peskett's poetry, most chosen from his two collections of poems with the addition of a number of newer works. Most of the poems date from the 1960s and 1970s, when Peskett was part of a vigorous poetic movem...

• Feb-2012
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Limericks are those rhymes that go ‘There was a young man from de-dum, Who dum-ditty-dum-ditty-dum’. A form of poetry more commonly used to describe old men with owls nesting in their beards, or perhaps ladies from Ealing who can do remarkable th...

• May-2012
• / Science Fiction
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On the face of it, this is the story of Dave Smart, business studies lecturer, as he leads three colleagues on a tour of discovery to the Smiling Disc star system, 19 light years from home. Their main purpose is to investigate business practice on Ka...

• May-2012
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A lascivious businessman who prefers ladyboys to ladies, a depressed sea captain who threatens to sink his own ferry, a woman who eats more than food, and a Thai widow finding her late husband’s roots in Crete -- these are just some of the engaging...

• May-2012
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William Peskett belongs to the brilliant generation of young poets from Northen Ireland who broke through in the 1970s. The intent observation and delicate structure of his poems are unusual. They feel their way into situations with both tact and exa...

• Sep-2012
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"Survivors" is William Peskett's second book in the former Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but more importantly it shows him coming to terms with the world of n...

• Aug-2013
• / General Fiction
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In his third collection of short stories, Thailand-based author William Peskett introduces us to a murderer who sees himself carved in stone, a writer whose dead wife returns to him through time, a robot community waiting for their saviour, a man who...

• Dec-2013
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This is a bumper collection of all 33 short stories from the books Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle and Sweet Song of the Siren. Stretching to a massive 536 pages, this book is the ideal gift for short story fans, particularly those who look...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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In his third collection of short stories, Thailand-based author William Peskett introduces us to a murderer who sees himself carved in stone, a writer whose dead wife returns to him through time, a robot community waiting for their saviour, a man who...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Characters whose tales are told in William Peskett’s fourth collection of short stories include a bank teller who suspects murder, an old man who loses his shorts, a butcher reminiscing with his biggest customer and a ladyboy searching for love. Th...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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For ravenous short story fans, this is a collection of the 44 tales first published in Mango and sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger. Here's some of what reviewers said of these stories: …this author is...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at how the world works, for exa...

• Sep-2015
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The Middle Kid is the story of Alex, an ordinary schoolgirl, and her struggle to be noticeable. With an older brother who is set for Olympic glory in the swimming pool and a younger brother who has emerged as a Latin genius, Alex is the middle child ...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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Gerald is worried about his advancing age. To make matters worse, he discovers soem ardent love letters in his wife's underwear drawer. Is she having an affair? Whatever it takes, he is determined to find out....

• Jul-2021
• / Literary
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What happens when a group of business executives, who find they can no longer exploit the inhabitants of Earth and despoil its natural resources because of do-gooder laws, travel to another world in search of easy profits?They find the locals thought...