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James Aylott

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James Aylott is a former sharp-elbowed Hollywood paparazzo and ruthless supermarket tabloid photo editor. His award-winning debut novel, Tales from The Beach House, was both critically acclaimed and a hit. His follow-up work of fiction, Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers is set in St. Louis, Missouri, one of America’s most dangerous cities. The author took inspiration not only from the colorful characters he met while embedding himself in the real estate business but also from the mayhem of everyday life on the wild streets of St. Louis. James Aylott is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and King’s College, London. He is happy to call a leafy suburb of St. Louis, Missouri his home.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 473 ratings · 98 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tales from the Beach House 3.94 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers: A Novel 3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers - Released Today

For my second novel ‘Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers’, I traded the sharp-elbowed world of tabloid journalism for the equally cutthroat business of Real Estate. Sunsoaked South Florida has been switched out for the beaten-up Rustbelt city of St. Louis. The premise, however, interwoven tales of quirky outlandish neighbors living in a rundown apartment building remains; as does the Chaucer Read more of this blog post »

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James Aylott and 1 other person liked Francis Tapon's review of True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connections, and Cultural Identity: "I've read 6 of Paul's books because I enjoy travel writing. The only one I enjoyed was "Dark Star Safari." He is cranky in most of his books, lamenting how things have gotten worse in so many ways. In an interview, he said he was surprised that criti" Read more of this review »
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James Aylott liked Dane Dallas's review of Trailer Park Noir: "3.5 out of 5. Another hit from Garton, who’s been a pretty reliable author in this genre. After reading more classic or literary novels, I was wanting a more trashy, sleazy horror novel, and that’s what I got. Definitely not for the easily offended, b" Read more of this review »
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James Aylott and 1 other person liked Samuel Hud Gardella's review of The Graduate (The Graduate, #1): "What I assumed would be a story of disillusionment and the questioning of modern materialist values is more a redundant dialogue of naivety, boredom, and sheer incompetence With the most used phrases being “I don’t know”, “What”, and a yes or no ques" Read more of this review »
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James Aylott rated a book it was amazing Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
No Hollywood ending in this novella. Like Pretty Woman, three decades later, gritty source material was transformed into a rom-com.
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James Aylott rated a book it was amazing Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Syd Field’s bio in the first chapters of this book was incredible, and even if you have zero interest in writing a screenplay, it was worth reading. The bad news about this book: adapting a book into a screenplay is a little more complicated than I h ...more
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