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SGM Ashcroft

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High Wycombe, The United Kingdom

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https://sgmashcroft.com

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Humor and Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Influences

DBC Pierre, Graham Greene, PG Wodehouse, AA Gill

Member Since

October 2020

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SGM Ashcroft was born in 1963 in High Wycombe.

He has been a journalist since 1987, working on local and national newspapers, before an 18-month stint in Beijing in the early 90s as a copy editor on the China Daily.

After a spell in corp comms, he moved into computer magazines, and then on to the BBC. He has been freelance since 2005.

Hack is his debut novel, with a second in the series due out in mid-2021.

He lives with his family in West London.

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SGM Ashcroft The Mirror & The Light
The third of Hiliary’s Mantel’s magnificent trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, who as Henry’s VIII’s ‘chief of staff’ forever altere…moreThe Mirror & The Light
The third of Hiliary’s Mantel’s magnificent trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, who as Henry’s VIII’s ‘chief of staff’ forever altered the course of British history. Masterful. The best work of historical fiction in, er, history.

Arsene Wenger: My life in Red & White
Part memoir, part self-help guide, part business-guru masterclass, Wenger’s autobiography reveals the inner workings of the driven visionary who single-handedly created the Beautiful Game as we know it today.

Viz: The Big Hard Number Two
Picked up in a charity shop. Puerile, disgusting, utterly inappropriate, hilarious. The UK’s notorious satirical comic is still going strong. Here’s a classic Viz Top Tip: "Old telephone directories make ideal address books. Simply cross out the names of the people you don’t know."

The Man Who Ate Everything
Food writer Jeffrey Steingarten’s absorbing and amusing collection of essays about the everyday foods we take for granted. Gastronomic penmanship of the highest order.

McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists 22nd Edition
Dry as the Sahara and extremely put-downable, but I’ve had to reacquaint myself with UK law as it affects journalists, as research for the second novel in my Hack series. (The main character is a reporter who plays hard and fast with the rules in his pursuit both of hot news and justice.) (less)

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SGM Ashcroft I went to bed alone, and woke up next to Donald Trump, who was smoking a cigarette. He smiled, and winked at me.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 778 ratings · 58 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hack 3.99 avg rating — 473 ratings — 2 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
	Splash: A twisty comedic thriller (The Hack Papers: Humorous British crime fiction thriller series) 4.31 avg rating — 273 ratings — 3 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
	RAG: Crime thriller with humor (The Hack Papers: Humorous British crime fiction thriller series) 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 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
	Hack: Funny fiction for adults by SGM Ashcroft (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Hack: Thriller that's got some humor 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“Like me he's an only child, which meant that in lieu of siblings we both had a highly developed imagination.”
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“like a dog baffled by the ways of the human world.”
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“Most people curse because their vocabulary lacks the firepower to give voice to strong feelings and emotions, or else they do it to fit in with their peers. But”
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