Close Shave

by Mark Shearman

Mum favours can save your neck, being in the wrong place at the right time does exactly that for a reluctant teenager. Unfortunately, his friends don't get off so lightly. This story is based on true events.

28 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2013

About the author

I have a broad sense of humour and an open mind gained from diverse work and people experience. Before I was a steeplejack in Nottingham, a farm owner in France, Berlin house builder, and a project manager in London. I was a ten-pound-pom in Australia. A year in Tenerife directed me to the Costa Blanca where I lived and worked as a journalist, illustrator and book cover designer. I now live back in Nottingham and work as a Journalist whilst I finish my MA in writing. I have completed five novels, one none-fiction and four short stories.


Journalist. Artist, writer. Voracious reader. Tea drinker, dog owner. Chief-cook and dish washer loader. Jocose, English Ex-pat in Spain. Beach freak. Science fiction fan. Habitual doubler of entendres. Caricature and Cartoonist junkie. Part-time philanthropist. Music nut. Movie addict. Occasional faux finisher. Renaissance man. Opinionated. Wordy. Modest...