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Steve Sheppard

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Steve had his first book, A Very Important Teapot, published (by Claret Press) in 2019. He was 66 at the time. Seven years later and he has five books out in the great wide world with (hopefully) more to come. It's never too late!

A Very Important Teapot, Bored to Death in the Baltics (2021) and Poor Table Manners (2024) make up Steve's Dawson & Lucy Series of Spy Thrillers With Laughs, proper thrillers, proper plots but lots of humour. The initially hapless, out-of-his-depth but always witty, engaging and optimistic Dawson and the much less hapless, bolshie, gung-ho Lucy make up the most unlikely spy pair of all time as chaos reigns in Australia, Estonia and South Africa respectively.

In 2025, Steve published Lazytown, a full-on comedy murde
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Geronimo

It’s not every day you open your front door to find a giraffe in the porch.

Not actually in the porch, obviously. That would be absurd; a giraffe is, as you probably know, quite a tall animal, and certainly taller than my porch, which is, well, porch-sized.
To clarify then. The giraffe was standing outside the porch.

Leaving aside the conundrum of how it had actually managed to press the front door b Read more of this blog post »
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Published on August 15, 2023 02:18
Average rating: 4.44 · 156 ratings · 84 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Very Important Teapot

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Bored to Death in the Baltics

4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings2 editions
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Poor Table Manners: Book 3 ...

4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings2 editions
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Lazytown

4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings2 editions
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Kat and Doug by Onia Fox
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Like the vast majority of Onia Fox's books, Kat and Doug is a lot of fun and rattles along at a fair old pace - I would expect nothing less. A Rom-Com is a bit of a departure from Onia's previous novels but it definitely works: think of it as Mills & ...more
A Killing in November by Simon Mason
"From Simon Mason comes the cliche odd-couple detective novel. Except (drumroll please) this time the racial minority is the posh one, and the white guy is the chav! Not only that, but the racial minority is the poshiest posh prick to have ever poshed" Read more of this review »
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This book was recommended to me by two different people (in Oxford, where the novel is set) on the same day, so I was surprised how disappointed I was when I read it. It's well written and the story stands up well enough but the basic premise, which ...more
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Festival Days by Julie J. Anderson
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Julie Anderson’s third and, I presume, final book in the Clapham Trilogy (the clue’s in the name!) is set during the 1951 Festival of Britain, hence of course, the title: Festival Days. I only hope the days of real-life south Londoners in 1951 (despi ...more
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Head Hunting by Chris Blackwater
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Chris Blackwater's Danny Verity books just get better and better. Head Hunting is the third in the series as Danny is hired by the duplicitous Marissa Ling to investigate a family murder... by head hunters in Borneo? What? Or so it may seem anyway. I ...more
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A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
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The publishers (Canelo) of A Spy Alone are desperately keen to let us know that the author, Charles Beaumont (presumably a pseudonym) has a history of working as an undercover operative for MI6. Great, you think.
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Festival Days by Julie J. Anderson
"I pre ordered my copy of the third book in the Clapham Trilogy because I loved the two previous novels, and this one didn’t disappoint. I absolutely love the way the author fleshes out an era of post war London with details of people caught up in the" Read more of this review »
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The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter
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I’d never heard of this author until someone recommended him to me recently and I found this in a local Swap Box so thought I’d give it a try because I have a female MI5 operative in an upcoming book myself, so wanted to compare notes.
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The Anna Puzzle by Justine Gilbert
"Another absolutely brilliant novel from Justine Gilbert! I have loved every single book she’s written. Educational, emotional, relevant, moving and absorbing, I gobbled it up in 6 days. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
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