Keith A Pearson

Kevin Kershaw is on the achy side of fifty, divorced, and spends his days processing insurance claims. It’s a far cry from the wondrous future he imagined as a teenager.

Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation. With a 30th birthday only months away and his finances approaching meltdown, it’s fair to say Toby isn’t a happy millennial. His parents’ generation had...

Kyle Hammond is suffering a surprise birthday party he really didn’t want. As he blows out the candles on his cake, he makes a token wish. Three days later, to his utter astonishment, that wish comes true. Kyle is counting his blessings when a pensioner turns up at his door unannounced....

Beth Baxter always dreamt of being an author. Unfortunately, fate has a twisted sense of humour so rather than writing books, she now sells them in a second-hand bookshop. With middle-age approaching and her life unfulfilled, Beth is at least grateful her forthcoming marriage to Karl is worthy...

Gary and Clare Kirk are set to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary...except they’re not. Childless, and with so little in common, the couple finally accept there’s no good reason to remain married....

After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired. Everything he tried to fix is now broken, and a bleak, lonely existence is all Craig has to look forward to. Does he...

On the way home from school in 1986, Craig Pelling decided to buy a can of Coke. He wasn’t to know a seemingly innocuous visit to the local newsagent would dramatically change the course of his life. Fast forward to his 40s, Craig finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage, earning a living...

1990 has not been a vintage year for Danny Monk—a cheating fiancée, redundancy, and then a harsh lesson in the downsides of home ownership. However, Danny’s life took a turn for the better after he secured a job as an estate agent.

No Easy Deeds is neither a time travel novel nor a rom-com, but it cleverly blends elements of both genres. Genuinely funny, nostalgic, and occasionally touching, it’s another gem of a story from the bestselling British author, Keith A Pearson.

A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk. Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée’s birthday...apparently. Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam...

Dougie Neil is a deeply unattractive man. Then, after the strangest of incidents at work, the unthinkable happens—Dougie is propositioned by a succession of attractive women. Dougie’s only remaining challenge is to decide which of his many admirers is Ms. Right....

Despite living on Earth for almost 30 years, Simon Armstrong knows he is not of our world. Still, with his interplanetary mission almost over, he’ll soon be saying goodbye to a life he’s struggled to navigate and the humans he doesn’t much like....

The first time Kelly Coburn bumped into him, she brushed it off as a chance encounter. The second time was no coincidence. The third time, he dropped an impossible bombshell and left her with a head full of questions....

In May 1987, Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship. He’d fallen for a fellow student at Exeter University. Sean and Jackie would never see each other again....

Delusion is the ideal place to rest on a painful journey to the truth. David Nunn considers himself a good man. Employed as a counsellor for a mental health charity in North London, his typical day revolves around broken minds and dysfunctional lives. Then, one day in January, a young man...

A bear-like man leaves a pub just before last orders—a man you’d much rather regard as a friend than an enemy. But, to Roland Raynott, Clement is most definitely the enemy. Minutes later, Clement is lying dead in a rain swept alley as Roland Raynott scurries away....

Gina Jackson’s family has grown smaller in recent years. First, she lost her grandmother, then two years ago she lost her beloved grandfather. Now, the only person Gina truly cares about is her mother, Helen.

When the truth is locked in the past, best you pray for the right locksmith. Just four months after Emma Hogan was born, her father was convicted of a heinous crime and sent to prison for life. Forty-six years later, and now a London-based journalist, Emma inadvertently discovers an old notebook...

Sir Charles Huxley kept a dark secret — a secret the former government minister should have taken to the grave. His son, William, lives an uneventful life in his late father’s shadow. He never planned on becoming a middle-aged bachelor and he definitely didn’t plan a career as a low-level...

The Way We Thunk is the much anticipated follow-up to the 2018 best-seller Meeting Mungo Thunk—a novel that's attracted many thousands of loyal fans and five-star reviews. Now, Mungo Thunk is back, and he's quirkier than ever....