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Anthony E. Thorogood

Born

in London (lives in Ross Tasmania Australia), The United Kingdom

November 26, 1953

Genre

Thriller, Mystery, Humor and Comedy

Influences

The 39 steps, Travels with my Aunt, A Room with a View, Joy in the Mor ...more

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I was born in London England in 1953 that makes me a baby boomer I think. On emerging into the big wide world I enjoyed life thoroughly, my two sisters and I played on the Woolwich Ferry, forever crossing backwards and forwards over the Thames and then, when we got bored with that, we had races in the foot tunnel under the Thames. It’s amazing what can keep a small boy happy.

Dad ran a market stall in Woolwich’s Beresford Square selling anything and everything. He was a natural Cockney salesman with all the patter that goes with it but when he was told to give it up or die from the cold, we packed up shop and migrated to Australia. Australia was great fun for a small boy from London, with snakes and kangaroos in the paddocks, unlimited sunsh
I was born in London England in 1953 that makes me a baby boomer I think. On emerging into the big wide world I enjoyed life thoroughly, my two sisters and I played on the Woolwich Ferry, forever crossing backwards and forwards over the Thames and then, when we got bored with that, we had races in the foot tunnel under the Thames. It’s amazing what can keep a small boy happy.

Dad ran a market stall in Woolwich’s Beresford Square selling anything and everything. He was a natural Cockney salesman with all the patter that goes with it but when he was told to give it up or die from the cold, we packed up shop and migrated to Australia. Australia was great fun for a small boy from London, with snakes and kangaroos in the paddocks, unlimited sunshine and other boys who talked about nothing but sex!

I went to school like most people do but I was dyslexic and did not do well at all. Then one day, when I was about 15, I taught myself to read and after that I read books, lots of books. I won a scholarship to the University of Adelaide and while I was at University I started writing and staging plays. I found I could write funny lines that made people laugh and I could write good dialogue.

In the late seventies and early eighties, I worked at anything and everything, I got lots and lots of jobs all at once. I worked as an all-night waiter, painter, junk mail distributor, gardener, labourer, pamphlet disseminator, builder’s labourer and theatre technician to name a few. I gathered together a bundle of money and went walk about to North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Russia, China, India, Thailand, Scandinavia, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy... and the heady heights of the northern English industrial town of Leeds.

While on my travels I worked! I worked picking grapefruit in Israel, oranges in Greece, olives up a mountain in Crete, I was a head barman in a pub in Yorkshire, I worked in a youth hostel in the south of England, I worked all night in a soft drinks factory, I was a storeman for the department store Marks and Spencer, I was a waiter, a kitchen hand, a guinea-pig in a medical experiment and was even in a Bollywood movie in India.

It wasn’t all fun and frolics though, I came close to death’s door three times in England. I was catapulted off my touring bike by a truck in London, a caravan outside Salisbury and a Mini Minor in Stockport. During this time I also wrote my first books: A Foxtrot Through India. I met a girl named Sue from Yorkshire, Sue poor lass, now edits my books. I brought Sue back to Australia and we bought a hundred acres in the country and spent a year building our own home from mud bricks, then we planted apple trees and started to make cider and made the best cider in the world until 2015 when we sold the farm and moved to Tasmania.

In my youth I always enjoyed my old Dad’s tales of his adventures in the navy in WWII and of his childhood hop picking in Kent and I think I got my love of storytelling from my Dad. I wrote a book on cider in 2008, after being awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel around the world and drink and research cider, my book Cider Drink It, Make It, Cook with It was published later in 2008 and sold out. I followed the success of my cider book by writing a series of comic whodunits entitled Death in the Australian Outback, published 2013, and followed them with the romantic action adventure novels, Shakespeare on the Roof and In Bed with Jane Austen, Picnic with Picasso and Miss Marple Struts her Stuff. which came out this year.

So happy reading, I hope you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them.

Cheers Anthony E Thorogood

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Maeketing my Books wasn't Supposed to be Like this.

So we decided to sell my books at Woolmers Maker's Market (Tasmania) before Christmas - We got copies of my books sent from America, we bought a fold up table, directors chairs, a tent, display stands and Sue made a table cloth. The weather had been sunny in the mid twenties for a month, beautiful weather in fact. We put up the tent as a practice run, it was like trying to get a newly born horse t Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 09, 2017 23:56 • Tags: marketing, markets, new-books, promotion, publishing, rain, selling

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Average rating: 3.35 · 186 ratings · 32 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shakespeare on the Roof 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — 9 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
	Death in the Australian Outback 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — 10 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
	In bed with Jane Austen 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Miss Marple Struts Her Stuff: Miss Marple is after Sour Tooth Charlie leader of the Hong Kong Mafia but Sour Tooth Charlie has other ideas 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Cider - Drink it Make it Cook with it 3.79 avg rating — 14 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
	Picnic with Picasso (Jack Hamma Australian Outback Romantic Action Adventures Book 3) 3.33 avg rating — 9 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
	Murder in the Australian Back Blocks 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 9 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
	The Elizabeth West Mysteries liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Foxtrot Through India 2.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Murder Mayhem and Madness 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 7 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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“I like Americans, I love Americans, well I loved an American once, having said that I don’t like their foreign policy much.’ ‘It’s”
― Anthony E. Thorogood, Shakespeare on the Roof: ***A Jack Hamma Action Adventure***

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“I’m not sexist but sometimes it just seems to come naturally, we all have our bad hair days. She”
― Anthony E. Thorogood, Shakespeare on the Roof: ***A Jack Hamma Action Adventure***

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“Anastasia: Five hundred guests should be plenty.
Jack: Yes, five hundred guests sounds like a nice small wedding.”
― Anthony E Thorogood

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Voting for August 2018 group read - Novella

Breath by Tim Winton

24 votes, 30.0%

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

11 votes, 13.8%

Breaking The Drought by Lisa Ireland

8 votes, 10.0%

The Women In Black by Madeleine St. John

8 votes, 10.0%

Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight by Nick Earls

7 votes, 8.8%

The Mystic Trio by Julie Gamble

5 votes, 6.3%

Killer Twist by C.A. Larmer

4 votes, 5.0%

Do Not Go Gentle by C.A. Larmer

4 votes, 5.0%

Death in the Australian Outback by Anthony E. Thorogood

3 votes, 3.8%

Her Outback Cowboy by Annie Seaton

3 votes, 3.8%

Discovering Treasure by Crystal Mary Lindsey

2 votes, 2.5%

Maggie's Run by Kelly Hunter

1 vote, 1.3%

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