Mark Shearman: 10 books

People will set themselves goals or write lists of things they need to do before they kick the bucket or hit a certain age – Reading one of Mark's books should be up there with losing your virginity, bull running in Pamplona, or getting your hair groomed by a monkey in India. Wet Pet, named...

Juliet is never taken seriously, she is just that cute unobtrusive girl who sits in the corner of a south east London Cafe, minding her own business or so everyone thinks. For weeks she has been listening to the conversations of others and piecing together information. She is surprised at how...

1967, St Ann's Nottingham, a typical late Victorian, working class, neighbourhood in acute decline, alarming poverty, a slum. Three hundred of Nottingham's dirtiest acres. This is the time and place Brendan and Pauline's son was born, emigration the only option. They were called ten-pound-poms. The...

A Grandfather and his Grandson team up to play out a plan to jump the queue in a land deal, using an army of pigeons, a Terminator and a sour faced Civil Servant.

Some men will do anything for free beer. The landlord of a country style pub offers two steeplejacks a free beer in return for a dirty favour. He soon regrets his choice in a moment of embarrassment, luckily his wife was there to take the fall.

How far would you go to help the people you love?A cynical, famous underwear model, and infamous international Rugby player, despondent and guilt ridden because of a terrible mistake, finds redemption from helping the Streakers who ruined his chances of a world record.After moving in...

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.

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.    

Welcome To The New Home Of Horror ‘Johnny Mains is the go-to man for horror in the UK. His extensive knowledge of and unbound passion for the genre is amazing. If there was a government Ministry of Horror (which there should be), Johnny would be in charge. He is the Minister for Horror. He...

Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 strange, surprising and harrowing micro-stories from The Shortest Story, a photo-fiction project from award-winning author Peter Chiykowski. Each page reads like a postcard sent from a life you never lived or a world that never existed. On one page, the...