Peter Yates: 18 books

Nobby Clifton, a petty crook most of his life is scared of dying in prison so he decides to retire from the game and go to live with his brother who runs a cafe and gift shop in the little village of Grinding Halt, a little coastal holiday village. Unfortunately his sister-in-law can't stand...

Willenhall town in Staffordshire, where I was raised (the West Midlands they call it now) although in danger from the heritage free brigade who believe that every town centre should be turned into a supermarket should not be consigned to a landfill site until we have told the world of its...

Lady Charlotte Montgomery, a retired parliamentarian realises there is a gap in the hotel market, a hotel specifically to cater for naughty weekends by the great and the good. She takes over a hotel tucked away in the mountains of Wales; she does not open to the general public, she...

This is a follow-on from 'Up Our Yard' continuing the saga of life - through the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia -  in a small community of terraced houses leading up to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.

In 1927 a chance encounter in a public house with the person who found a solid gold bangle whilst walking his dog was to be a life changing moment in the life of Captain Cornelius Wood. His journal written in 1956 was found only a few years ago by his grandson, it is a fascinating document, it tells...

More From Grinding Halt carries on from where Grinding Halt left off. Nobby and Nigel are now well established in the viallge and it is generally idyllic, but trouble is brewing. Nigel's wife has heard that her ex-husband has inherited a lot of money from an uncle - Nigel usew most of it to...

Through the rose tinted spectacles of time and with a selective memory let us take a journey back to 1952 to a time when most of us mere mortals lived in small yards also known as courts. Each yard had six or eight two up and two down tiny terraced houses, there was an outside toilet at the bottom...

When a public house was being demolished a mediaeval manuscript written in Latin was discovered in the rafters. It had lain there since AD1348 and had been written by Brother Barnabus of the local priory.It tells the story of the return to the village of Sir Enoch du Wulfrun and his squire Elijah...

Further adventures with those lovable rogues Sir Enoch du Wulfrun and his estates manager formerly squire, Elijah Morgan in the village of Willenhalch in the early fourteenth century. We meet again Mad Peggy Clackett, her daughter Daft Alice Clackett, Sir Richard de Darlaston, his lovely daughter...

Vigil-aunties is a story set twenty years in the future. The residents of a small coastal town are fed up with the anarchy on the streets and the apathy of those in charge who are supposed to represent the people. The police service has been completely privatised and is now controlled by a private...

The Enoch and Eli Trilogy is a series of advenntures featuring those two Balck Country lads Enoch and Eli, the first 'The Strange Affair of the Secret Groaty Pudding', followed by 'The Strange Affair of the Mushy Peas Battle' ending with 'The Strange Affair of the Pork Scratching Drought'. I will say no more in case I am accused of spoiler alert.

A Christmas Fantasy for all year round specifically for those of us young or old who believe that Santa Claus is alive and well. Obediah Bigwig, a senior board member elf at Christmasland takes over the entire organisation with an unexpected coup. He forces Santa into retirement making him live at...

This is the third and final novel in the Up a Duck series. Sir Enoch and Elijah are now very much at home and are looking forward to getting married, Sir Enoch to the Lady Rebecca and Eli to Jesse. We read about the involvement of King Edward and Queen Isabella, the fortunes - or indeed the various...

Auntie Muriel decides that Santa Claus has been Santa Claus for quite long enough and it is time he went back to being Neville Entwhistle and moved to live at Bide-a-Wee retirement home by the sea for Christmas-land workers. She is determined that she will take over and become the first female...