MICHAEL WHYATT BROOKES
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MICHAEL WHYATT BROOKES
WRITING, PAINTING AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
INTRODUCTION
In recent years, I’ve written three novels and two short stories. I’ve also done quite a few paintings. Consequently, I’ve decided to devote this site to both interests. In addition, since I have an interest in politics and world affairs, I shall add comments from time to time in the blog on current affairs and any other matters I find of interest. My excuse for all this is that I’m retired, having had two busy careers, and I now have the time.
BIOGRAPHY
After grammar school in Manchester, I went on to study for a BA hon in English at Liverpool University. Instead of waiting to be called up for national service, I applied for a three-year short service commission, went on to obtain a permanent commission, and retired after 27 years’ service. During this time, I travelled widely and, in addition to living in England, also lived in Cyprus and Nigeria. For the next 16 years, I worked for a regional body of local government, latterly as Deputy Director, and gained an MBA during this time. After a further 6 years as joint partner in a company proving leadership and management training, I retired to France for fourteen years before finally coming home to roost in Torquay. Previous interests of mountaineering, squash, badminton, flying, gliding and skiing, have now given way to drawing and painting, writing, brushing up my French, learning Italian, swimming and keeping fit in a local gym.
MICHAEL WHYATT BROOKES
PUBLISHED BOOKS
JAMES WINCHESTER
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is GB-ZQC, a PA 28. Engine failure. Making a forced landing 10 miles south east of Penrith. Passing 2,000 feet. Heading 360.’ This is an intriguing, action-packed and often romantic account of episodes in the life of James Winchester: pilot, adventurer and traveller. His early years and later career take him to a series of exotic locations around the world, from a Roman amphitheatre in Cyprus to a downtown night club in Hong Kong: from a luxury hotel in New York to a rondavel in Nigeria. It embraces, from the 1950s to the new millennium, a kaleidoscope of exhilarating, romantic, and sometimes downright risqué situations
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Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is GB-ZQC, a PA 28. Engine failure. Making a forced landing 10 miles south east of Penrith. Passing 2,000 feet. Heading 360.’ This is an intriguing, action-packed and often romantic account of episodes in the life of James Winchester: pilot, adventurer and traveller. His early years and later career take him to a series of exotic locations around the world, from a Roman amphitheatre in Cyprus to a downtown night club in Hong Kong: from a luxury hotel in New York to a rondavel in Nigeria. It embraces, from the 1950s to the new millennium, a kaleidoscope of exhilarating, romantic, and sometimes downright risqué situations
Book Info
Paperback: ISBN 9781805410775 – £9.99 Amazon Books
Kindle: ISBN 9781805410782 – £3.99 Amazon Books
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
Book Info
Paperback: ISBN 9781805410775 – £9.99 Amazon Books
Kindle: ISBN 9781805410782 – £3.99 Amazon Books
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
CORRUPTION
Bob Beaumont, retired from the Royal Military Police, is running his own detective agency from offices in Burcastle, a town in the North West of England. His PA, Liz Parker, has aspirations of becoming a detective despite her disadvantaged upbringing. Bob’s routine investigation of a marital infidelity case leads to evidence of an association between a leading member of the Burcastle Borough Council, Jeremy Marsden, and members of a local gang led by Jimmy Beagle. Bob Beaumont deepens his investigation and reveals suspicion of widespread corruption and murder. As he pieces the jigsaw together, he is forcibly abducted and his life threatened. Against this background of intrigue, violence and threat to the well-being of local government, Bob develops a relationship with the Head of Personnel but becomes increasingly fascinated by the wife of the principal suspect.
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Bob Beaumont, retired from the Royal Military Police, is running his own detective agency from offices in Burcastle, a town in the North West of England. His PA, Liz Parker, has aspirations of becoming a detective despite her disadvantaged upbringing. Bob’s routine investigation of a marital infidelity case leads to evidence of an association between a leading member of the Burcastle Borough Council, Jeremy Marsden, and members of a local gang led by Jimmy Beagle. Bob Beaumont deepens his investigation and reveals suspicion of widespread corruption and murder. As he pieces the jigsaw together, he is forcibly abducted and his life threatened. Against this background of intrigue, violence and threat to the well-being of local government, Bob develops a relationship with the Head of Personnel but becomes increasingly fascinated by the wife of the principal suspect.
Book Info
Paperback: ISBN 9781802270051 – £9.99 Amazon Books
Kindle: ISBN 9781802270068 – £3.99 Amazon Books
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
Book Info
Paperback: ISBN 9781802270051 – £9.99 Amazon Books
Kindle: ISBN 9781802270068 – £3.99 Amazon Books
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
A FINAL FLING
Being hosed down by the police in Paris, falling overboard off La Rochelle, making a forced landing in a glider near the ‘Côte d’Azur’ and dangling from a stricken cable car over the Alps, are a few of the events experienced by a group of mature English revellers. Conceived one evening as ‘a final fling’ by four men in their local pub, the project results in a coach tour of France by thirty-one villagers who argue, fall in love, put the world to rights and sometimes behave quite inappropriately for their age. The tour is a comedy of errors but how will it all end?
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Being hosed down by the police in Paris, falling overboard off La Rochelle, making a forced landing in a glider near the ‘Côte d’Azur’ and dangling from a stricken cable car over the Alps, are a few of the events experienced by a group of mature English revellers. Conceived one evening as ‘a final fling’ by four men in their local pub, the project results in a coach tour of France by thirty-one villagers who argue, fall in love, put the world to rights and sometimes behave quite inappropriately for their age. The tour is a comedy of errors but how will it all end?
Book Info
ISBN: (Paperback): 9798823089944 £17.99 Amazon Books
ISBN (E-Book): 9798823089944 £3.99 Amazon Books
Paperback version also available directly from me on line.
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
Book Info
ISBN: (Paperback): 9798823089944 £17.99 Amazon Books
ISBN (E-Book): 9798823089944 £3.99 Amazon Books
Paperback version also available directly from me on line.
For ordering on line, type book title and my name- Michael Whyatt Brookes
SHORT STORIES
THE STRANGER
‘The Stranger’ is a short story concerning a newcomer to a Cornish village who sets tongues wagging with his abrupt attitude and manner. The reason for his behaviour, which lies in his past as an army officer, becomes increasingly evident.
BEYOND THE GRAVE
Charles Weston attends the funeral of his grandfather, a man he hasn’t seen since he was a child owing to a family rupture. He learns that John Weston, who had been a war time bomber pilot and subsequently a tireless worker for charities, was held in extremely high regard. He learns more from his grandmother, whom he helps move into sheltered accommodation, and this knowledge causes him to make a significant change to his own life.
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