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Our aim is to promote, highlight and generally bring to your attention writers that are new and hot, writers that are rough and ready and writers that have thus far been ignored by publishers who look for mass market clones. It's a labour of love and very much an ongoing project but if you look below you can see that we're making headway. Try one of our books and make up your own mind - you might be glad you did.

 

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Radgepacket 6 - Darren Sant, Nick Quantrill, Joe Young, Pete Sortwell, Ian Ayris and many, many more

 

 

The Radgepacket series goes from strength to strength with each each volume and in this, our sixth book of short stories, you'll find twenty two of Britain's best 'unsigned and unhinged' authors. They'll entertain you with tales of bus stops and loony cops, loan sharks and car parks, big fat blokes, dodgy smokes, lines of coke and some appalling jokes. So come and have a read if you think you're hard enough!

 

Launched on 10th March 2012...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radgepacket 5 - Danny Hill, Ian Ayris, Carol Fenlon and many, many more

 

 

'Imaginative writing. Offers a sharp critique of trashy beer and kebab culture' The Crack

 

Our fifth volume of short stories is our punchiest yet!

You’ll find real industrial strength fiction in here as the best ‘unsigned and unhinged’ British talent regale you with stories of bad men and mad men…and a little touch of S & M!

 

In this snapshot of todays Britain you’ll find nineteen ‘shorts’ that will entertain and appall you in equal measure as well as a novella set on a council estate in the Midlands that will keep you thinking long after you’ve finished it.

 

So strap on your headguard, position your gumshield…and turn the page.

 

Dumb Luck - Tom Arnold

 

 

'A rip roaring ride through the London the tourists don't see ...' Andy Rivers

 

Micky’s having a shit day.  On the one hand he's out of jail and on his way home.  On the other his head still throbs from the whippin’ he got on the inside.  If only he could remember a bit more about it but the memories are blurred. And something dark and nasty nags at him - something he wishes he could remember but at the same time feels sure he'd like to forget. And that’s before someone goes and kills his Dad and pins it on him.  Rams a bottle through his neck.  Nasty. Real nasty. 
Still – Micky’s no dumbarse. He's sure he can solve his Dad’s murder before the week is out.  He just needs a few beers to get his head straight. Lie low at his mates bedsit...

Get ready for a race against time as Micky and his pigthick sidekick Rezza immerse themselves in the crap and dregs of London's bungling criminal underworld. Trying to prove his innocence and jolt his short-term memory before it’s too late.  Take a deep breath and prepare yourself for the thrill ride of a lifetime - just bring a sickbag, a bullet-proof vest and some codeine with you! Just in case...

Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Andy Rivers

 

'A thumping debut from a barnstorming new talent.'  Danny King

 

After Billy Reeves had survived a poverty ridden and violent childhood on a council estate in Newcastle he thought he had it all; a loving family, money and respect but a face from the past with a point to prove and muscles to flex is out to bring  his world crashing down on him.

Billy is going to have to work very hard just to keep everyone he cares about alive and that means the gloves are coming off...

 

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Radgepacket 4 - Ray Banks, Danny King, Andy Rivers and many more.

 

'Within these pages you will find gem after gem' - Sheila Quigley

 

Our ceaseless quest to bring you the the unsigned and  the unhinged continues. If you like your fiction industrial strength then, with over twenty tales of murder, mayhem and madness from the Inner Cities, there’s something in here for you!

 

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More Burglar Diaries - Danny King  

 

'Laugh out loud funny' - The Sun

 

Follow the hilarious adventures of Bex and Ollie as they  scratch a living robbing shops, burgling factories and emptying offices around the back-water town of Tatley.

 

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I'm Rivelino - Andy Rivers

 
'Funny, fanatical and thoroughly enjoyable'  - Lovereading.co.uk
 
Thanks to a family member taking him to his first match in the early seventies whilst he was young and impressionable Andy Rivers discovered Newcastle United. Given the stress and despair this has caused him over the last thirty years it's fair to assume that this action would be considered child abuse today. His story, peppered with terrace wit and rough charm, will be identified with by supporters of a certain age everywhere.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
'Imaginative writing' - The Crack

We’ve got a tart with a heart in a satellite town, a chav girl up a mountain, an ageing rock star pretending to be gay and a hard case in a soft shirt celebrating his birthday, amongst others.  Pick it up if you're brave enough...put it down if you can!

 
 
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'Bright, fresh and varied voices with edge' - The A63 Revisited

 

The very first in our 'Radgepacket' series. It tells tales of armed robbers, funeral frolics, giving birth, giving head, tragic drunken escapades and much, much more.

 

 

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