Breakfast at Sid's

by Ed Halliday

The minute Sidney Angel is rudely awoken by someone smashing his front door down, he knows he is going to have one hell of a day! He isn't wrong. Given little choice and only twenty four hours on the clock, he has to find a missing gangster, a large bag of cash, rescue a maiden or two in distress and manage to stay alive, and all before breakfast the next morning. Armed with nothing but a fierce hangover, bacon sandwiches and a grim determination to get some answers to his own questions, he gets to work. Aided of course by his trusty dog, Wilson.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2017

About the author

Ed Halliday is not your usual writer of dark humour. It has often been remarked by agents and reviewers alike that his style of writing is unusual but in a refreshing and entertaining way. There is no rambling prose put there just for the sake of filling pages and therefore fulfilling the page count criteria of a publisher, every word is there for a purpose. This is why his stories make engaging reading that keeps you turning the pages. The reason his style is so different to most is simple. He has had no formal training whatsoever, no writers workshops, no degree in creative writing, not even an ’A’ level in English. Everything that goes onto the page is untainted by the restrictive rigours imposed by years of being told how to write, it is done by instinct and a desire to produce something that he himself would enjoy reading. Born in the industrial north of England in the late sixties, Ed spent the formative years of his childhood in France where he was educated in the French state system before finishing his education in an English boarding school. He has recently returned to France to live and to write, hence the frequent references in his books to the country of his childhood.

Reviews

[Onionboy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy this author’s books, so I was excited to get to read a new one. As usual, it has characters that are such over the top stereotypes that still somehow work, along with likably flawed characters. It is an enjoyable story that works out well in the end.