All I Ever Wanted

An honest, heart-aching study of one man’s life and loves, from his painfully formative school years to his ultimate success in the music industry.

Carl Peter Hough’s style is reminiscent of Nick Hornby and William Boyd – a cool, gritty and compelling read.

The strong storyline, lively insights into the world of rock and roll, compelling characters (the main one so honest, human, flawed, decent), and the haunting, elusive presence throughout draw you in right up to the very end.

This book will resonate with anyone who’s endured the agony and the ecstasy of unrequited love.

Some say first love stays with you forever. It’s the summer of 1978. When aspiring teenage rock star Paul Fox writes a song in the grip of an adolescent passion, he can have no idea that that song will go on to shape his whole career and, indeed, his life. As his fortunes and relationships ebb and flow, and triumphs and tragedies come and go, the song always reminds him of the great unresolved and unrequited love that inspired it, and the girl he wrote it for. Will Paul ever get closure or will what might have been be all he ever has?

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Combo deal - get Daddy's Eyes & Pernkopf's Atlas together for £10 + postage

Daddy's Eyes

A hugely embarrassing and humiliating public mistake leads to a change of career direction for advertising executive Alan Fennemore. He's presented with the opportunity to ghost-write the biography of one of the UK's most enigmatic rock stars of the 70s, Tony McCall. But this is no hagiography. Tony's cupboard is full of skeletons - skeletons Tony is determined to bring out into the open.

Pernkopf's Atlas

Twice-divorced middle-aged teacher Andy Roberts' life is on what feels like permanent hold. His job teaching History in Ballymoney Grammar is stifling him, his cold and emotionally distant father's ill-health requires his constant attention. He's going nowhere. The universe is conspiring though. His father's death reveals a mystery with its roots in postwar Germany Andy feels compelled to unravel. His quest is sidelined when another bombshell is dropped into his lap: his dying ex-wife presents him with a troubled 16-year-old son he knew nothing about. Andy's life is turned on its head. Is Andy doomed to repeat his own father's mistakes, or will solving the riddle of what happened in Occupied Germany bring redemption to father, father and son?

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