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Welcome to the Grinning Bandit Books website. We have a great selection of entertaining eBooks from a number of independent authors. All books are released on Kindle and then in paperback. |
Our books
Mrs Maginnes is Dead by Maeve Sleibhin
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A murdered old lady, her strange will, and a troublesome Welsh goat. What is going on? Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Life before Frank: from Cradle to Kibbutz by Frank Kusy
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Born into poverty from immigrant parents, Frank Kusy learns to live on his wits – first as a pocket-sized wheeler dealer in 1960's London, then as an unsuspecting money collector for local gangsters, then as the bane of his Jesuit teachers. Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B6FJV4B US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B6FJV4B Born into poverty from immigrant parents, Frank Kusy learns to live on his wits – first as a pocket-sized wheeler dealer in 1960's London, then as an unsuspecting money collector for local gangsters, then as the bane of his Jesuit teachers. With his antics driving his Hungarian mother to despair, he vows that one day he will make her proud of him. It is a vow it will be difficult for him to keep. Read more: https://grinningbandit.webnode.com/our-books/life-before-frank/ |
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Mother - and other short science fiction stories by Maeve Sleibhin
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A collection of science fiction short stories, told largely from a female point of view, and ranging from irony to horror. These stories are often funny, often exciting and always thought-provoking. Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
The Reckless Years: A Marriage made in Chemical Heaven by Frank Kusy
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The true story of two people who tried and failed to destroy each other. And fell in love. Again.
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Short Tails of Cats and other Curious Creatures by Frank Kusy
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Fat Buddhists, insomniac cats, wide-boy whales, headless horsemen, Polish plumbers, little piggy home-owners, and partially-sighted mice – something for everyone in this short tale anthology of the absurd.
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The Ultimate Inferior Beings by Mark Roman
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The End of the Universe is nigh ...
As a result of a computer error, landscape architect jixX finds himself in charge of a dangerous space mission. With a useless crew, and a ship’s computer that thinks it's a comedian, jixX cannot see how things can get worse. Until he encounters aliens and learns of a daft prophecy about the end of the Universe. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Too Young to be Old by Frank Kusy
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When Frank starts working with old people, he rediscovers a young dream. And sets about making it come true.
As Frank Kusy turns 27 he is unexpectedly put in charge of an old people’s home in Clapham. Driven to distraction by a crazy cast of characters he seeks solace in Buddhism, only to find himself up to his ears in plasticine pigs and marathon chanting sessions Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Flashman and the Sea Wolf by Robert Brightwell
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This first book in the Thomas Flashman series covers his adventures with Thomas Cochrane, one of the most extraordinary naval commanders of all time. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Flashman and the Cobra by Robert Brightwell
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This book takes Thomas to territory familiar to readers of his nephew’s adventures, India, during the second Mahratta war. It also includes an illuminating visit to Paris during the Peace of Amiens in 1802. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Flashman in the Peninsula by Robert Brightwell
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While many people have written books and novels on the Peninsular War, Flashman’s memoirs offer a unique perspective. They include new accounts of famous battles, but also incredible incidents and characters almost forgotten by history. Flashman is revealed as the catalyst to one of the greatest royal scandals of the nineteenth century which disgraced a prince and ultimately produced one of our greatest novelists. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Flashman's Escape by Robert Brightwell
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This book covers the second half of Thomas Flashman's experiences in the Peninsular War and follows on from Flashman in the Peninsula. Having lost his role as a staff officer, Flashman finds himself commanding a company in an infantry battalion. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Percy the High Flying Pig by Gerry Gregory
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When Percy the pig decides life on the farm is too boring, he escapes with Sam the sheep dog. Before you could shake two trotters together, they are up in the air on a high flying adventure! Too late, Percy discovers his fear of heights and crash lands in France. Chased through the countryside, he finds new friends and new strengths...but will Percy ever see his home again? For ages 4-9AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
The Walls of Troy by Cherry Gregory
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It is seven years into the siege at Troy, and Neomene finds herself defending the Greek camp against fever and Trojan attack. Soon she is embroiled in the destiny of Achilles and the fate of Troy itself. In this sequel to The Girl from Ithaca, Neomene, Odysseus's little sister, befriends the women who are forced to survive alongside warriors such as Achilles, Ajax and Agamemnon. Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLE:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00USK9UYY US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00USK9UYY |
The Girl from Ithaca by Cherry Gregory
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Neomene of Ithaca, younger sister of Odysseus, reveals what Homer never knew: a woman's view of the Trojan War. A Spartan war ship sails into Ithaca and two men arrive to demand the fulfilment of an oath. When Odysseus joins the Greek alliance against Troy, his young sister, fourteen-year-old Neomene, is thrust into a world she knows little about. Read more ... AVAILABLE ON KINDLEUK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T6UW7I8 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T6UW7I8 |
Warwick the Wanderer by Terry Murphy
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Rock n’ roll: it’s the future! Bold Sir Warwick is almost out of a job. The best adventures have been done and even the Holy Grail has turned up. Worse, it’s not his turn to be King. Career advice from the Wise Wizard is no help and chivalry is so middle ages. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE |
Off the Beaten Track by Frank Kusy
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What did Frank do to escape the crazy Polish biker chick? He went off the beaten track… AVAILABLE ON KINDLE |
The Albion by Derryl Flynn
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Fast approaching forty, life's experiences haven't mellowed Terry Gallagher any; angry and disillusioned; sickened by the mindless violence all around him and trying to come to terms with his own thuggish past, a legacy of life on the Broughton estates, he decides to make good. Here is a story of one man and his unwilling buddy who form a football team and strive to bring colour and self-esteem into the lives of a rag bag bunch of thirteen year old scallies. On a forgotten piece of waste ground the lads shape their adopted home. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKUK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0957585160 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957585160 AVAILABLE ON KINDLEUK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MSS1DYO US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MSS1DYO
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He Ain't Heavy He's My Buddha by Frank Kusy
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Joe discovers he is fat quite by accident...and embarks on a disastrous course of Buddhist self-improvement. Starting with FatBusters. NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE |
A Marriage made in Chemical Heaven by Frank and Madge
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The long-awaited sequel to Rupee Millionaires When Frank tragically loses his mother, he plunges himself and new bride Madge into a dark, deluded world of drug-taking. Will they ever survive?The first pill was magical—Frank loved the whole universe and got engaged to Madge—and the second one was hilarious (they romped around butt-naked and sent the photographs to Snappy Snaps), but after that it was all downhill. They spent five years chasing those first incredible highs. Read more ... NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE |
Scrapyard Blues by Derryl Flynn
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Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. How did one crazy night of excess end up with 25 years behind bars? Convicted for the brutal murder of an ex girlfriend, JD Smith is back on the streets a bitter and broken man. Now in his fifties, the once good looking, carefree, former musician in a post punk R & B band is left to reflect on the bizarre events that led to his long incarceration without right to appeal, where, despite maintaining his innocence, all the evidence continues to point to his guilt.
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AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0957585144 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957585144 AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Kevin and I in India by Frank Kusy
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Two barmy British backpackers take on India in this true story of adventure and misadventure. All Kevin wants is a cheese sandwich... The year is 1985. Indira Gandhi has just been assassinated, and McDonalds are just planning their first branch in India, to sell non-cow 'Lamburgers'. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0957585136 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957585136 AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Rupee Millionaires by Frank Kusy
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Want to make a million? Be careful what you wish for ... At 35, I was a struggling travel writer with five guides in print but not enough money to pay the rent. Then, working as a Buddhist trader in London’s St Martin’s-in-the-Fields market, I met Spud. His thuggish ability to scare people, notably the Petrovs, two encroaching Russian gangsters, made him seem the ideal business partner. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0957585128 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957585128 AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Ginger the Gangster Cat by Frank Kusy
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Ginger returns from the dead - to carry out the most cunning cat crime of the century. In Barcelona. Ginger is not a happy cat. He's fat, he's ugly, and he's getting old. He also lives in Surrey. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0957585152 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0957585152 AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Ginger the Buddha Cat by Frank Kusy
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Ginger is facing a tough decision. Sausages or enlightenment? Ginger is about to relive the first of his nine lifetimes upon this earth - as a fat greedy god-cat in ancient India. The sequel to the ever-popular Ginger the Gangster Cat. AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
Weekend in Weighton by Terry Murphy
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First-time private investigator Eddie Greene is having a bad weekend. It's about to get worse. When he finds the slab-cold body of his first client, he knows something's up - he only spoke to her fifteen minutes earlier. Free-wheeling, swash-buckling, trash-talking Eddie is not just out of place in a humdrum northern town. He's out of his depth on his first case, out of funds from a now deceased client and out of favour with Weighton's big society. AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/095758511X US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/095758511X AVAILABLE ON KINDLE: |
"Hilarious one-liners, witty dialogue and intricate plot." - J. D. Gray.