Pete: 1047 books

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds” Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages...

Is there any greater thrill than staring down your opponent across the poker table, waiting for the card that will make or break your hand? Acclaimed YA novelist Pete Hautman would know—he’s been a poker fanatic for thirty years. And with poker now an international TV phenomenon, the time seems...

A nervous, insecure file clerk named Tim Plummet awakens from vague nightmares into a surreal world that to him seems quite mundane. Arriving at his workplace, he enters an artificial but drab office milieu generated by a mysterious device called the Space Saver. Among his co-workers is a gleeful...

Monologues are a fast-growing area of theatre, with new opportunities to perform them popping up left, right and centre.Most actors only learn short monologues for auditions. Equally, most monologues you come across are written expressly for this purpose, with a typical duration of 1-3 minutes....

Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname “the Mile...

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter’s father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter...

The husband is Tanner Coleman, successful and controlling. He knows exactly what he wants professionally and personally. The wife is Bianca. She’s staid and respectable—the ideal trophy, perfect for Tanner’s public image—but fulfilling his freaky fantasies is another story. The other...

A man who abandoned his family is visited by his daughter in an island paradise soon before he will die. A mentally challenged young man living alone in his late mothers seaside cottage feeds clam chowder to a runaway. A college co-ed is victimized by beauty. A man grieving the...

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't pay, he treats them anyway. But in his own life,...

Passed down from generation to generation , many of Derbyshire's most popular folk tales are gathered together here for the first time. Ranging from stories specific to the region, such as 'The Derby Ram', to others which are local versions of well-known classics, like 'Beauty and the Beast', all...

Short play for stage (small/fringe theatre).

TV sitcom pilot episode. Set in the late 1990s, an ex-punk, now "respectable" and married, finds himself out of work and unwanted. On top of this, his wife is conducting an affair. At every turn, things are getting on top of him. Something will surely have to give. Maybe it's time to think about reforming the band.

TV sitcom pilot episode. Two flatmates meet their new third share, who is introduced to them by their enigmatic landlady. All the girls just want to help people. Why are they assigned missions and what happens when they attempt them?

Short play for stage (small/fringe theatre).