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WALKING BLUES
A Short Novel by Peter Brett
Since his mother committed suicide Charlie, an East End kid, has been living with a pair of do-gooding aristocratic ladies in Norfolk. Now it’s war time and Charlie is seventeen. Back from boarding school he is disturbed by the attractions of Sylvia, the young girl who works as a maid in the house and feels completely lost and out of place……
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ELENA
A Novel by Peter Brett
In a freak summer storm, by a swimming pool in Spain, a flash of light changes Davey for ever. Lightning? Or something else? From that moment on he’s no longer a bored teenager but is filled by a new awareness, finds he’s acquired new abilities and becomes convinced he’s been taken over by alien entity, ‘IT’, sent here to report on the Dominant Species on Earth, Humanity…….
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GAME IN A SPIDERS WEB
A Novel by Peter Brett
Carl has grown up haunted by strange, frightening dreams and the sense that he is destined for a romantic but tragic destiny. Now, on the eve of 9/11, pushing thirty, still trying to understand his feelings, a frightened girl bangs on his window, a threatening, large man wants to fight him for a music box and he gets a puzzling phone call from his Spanish grandfather, prophesising a tragedy the next day……
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IN A LANGUAGE NOT MY OWN
The Life story of Peter Brett
‘In a Language not my Own’ is a brief, light-hearted autobiography of Peter Brett who came to England as a refugee from Vienna a few months before the outbreak of WWII. It tells the story of a small boy from a working-class family gradually being transformed into, at least, the general appearance of an English Gentleman.
His discovery of drama and ballet resulted in a life in the theatre first as a dancer then as an actor and eventually as a director and a writer, first of plays and finally as a novelist. A varied life has taken him from the West End, in revue with Kenneth Williams, to appearances in ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘Life of Brian’ and ‘Invitation to the Dance’ with Gene Kelly, working with Steven Berkoff, writing the screenplay for, and also appearing in Ken Russell’s film ‘French Dressing’. After touring Italy, Spain and most of Europe, and as father of two and author of four novels, he has finally settled in a small village in Wales.
It touches on life in a traditional Public School, on attitudes in a Norfolk, Hunting, Fishing and Shooting family and of course life in the theatre and occasional encounters with stars.