Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: March 21, 2010
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Peter Knowles


Biography

Peter Knowles born 1949 in Barnsley,Yorkshire England and is still living there.

Twenty plus years ago I picked up a joblot of cheap books and became a Bookseller, now recently retired I finally became an Author.

Where to find Peter Knowles online

Website: http://www.knowles5849.freeserve.co.uk/peterknowlesauthor.html
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-knowles/22/154/9ab
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/526719229
Blog: http://www.blogger.com/profile/17613639538637404274

Where to buy in print

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/PeterKnowles

Books

The Sock    by Peter Knowles
Price: Free! 2030 words. Published on November 16, 2012. Fiction.
Hello, I’m ‘Left Sock’ and my friend is ‘Right Sock’, I know what you’re thinking. ‘How can you tell, socks can fit on any foot, can’t they?’ But I know for a fact that I am ‘Left’ and he is ‘Right’ because I have a motif on my left hand side and he has a motif on his right hand side, we are almost identical twins, the same colour and the same pattern.
Old Ebenezer The Gravedigger    by Peter Knowles
Price: Free! 1830 words. Published on November 4, 2012. Fiction.
Old Ebenezer had worked for the Cemeteries and Parks department of his local council since leaving school at the age of fourteen many many years ago; he must have dug hundreds if not thousands of graves in his time but now well into his eighties and long past retirement age he was still working.
More Time in the Army    by Peter Knowles
Price: $2.99 USD. 24410 words. Published on October 10, 2012. Fiction.
The sequel to ‘Once Upon a Time in the Army’ This story starts where ‘Once upon a Time in the Army’ left off. After John Sargeant (aka The Sarge) left the army the story is taken over by Rod, Billy and the rest of the crazy squaddies that Sarge left behind stationed with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment at Catterick North Yorkshire and Northern Ireland in the early 1970’s.
A Yorkshire Family Genealogy. Family Trees from Yorkshire    by Peter Knowles
Price: $4.99 USD. 23340 words. Published on May 22, 2011. Nonfiction.
A Yorkshire Family Genealogy contains 13 Family Trees with thousands of names,dates,births,marriages and deaths of families from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Including some of the families who emigrated to the USA and Australia. All the families are connected to each other through married and together they make up A Yorkshire Family Genealogy.
Bonfire Night    by Peter Knowles
Price: Free! 2500 words. Published on May 2, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
The adventures of three kids growing up in the 1950's.Rita,Peapod,The Lad and Me prepare for Bonfire Night.
Dead Monk's Shoes    by Peter Knowles
Price: Free! 2680 words. Published on May 1, 2011. Fiction.
The adventures of three kids growing up in the 1950's.Rita,Peapod,The Lad and Me go apple scrumping.
Sonny's Swimming Lessons    by Peter Knowles
Price: Free! 1780 words. Published on May 1, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 2 reviews)
Eight year old Sonny lives on the Molly Q motor canal boat, with his parents and older sister Maggie, plying coal with a sixty one foot barge called the Molly B between the Collieries, Glassworks and the Paper Mills.
The Tippets    by Peter Knowles
Price: $0.99 USD. 1210 words. Published on April 26, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(3.67 from 3 reviews)
The Tippets Text only short Children’s Stories. Intended to be read to very young children The Tippets, Tip-it-up, Tip-it-over, Tip-it-that-way, Tip-it-this-way, Tip-it-upside-down and the twins Tip-it-in and Tip-it-out live on a rubbish tip near you. Who are they? What are they? Read the stories to your child and let them make up their own mind.
This Devilish Place The 1810 Worsdale Mine Disaster    by Peter Knowles
Price: $0.99 USD. 16350 words. Published on April 11, 2011. Fiction.
Trapped underground after an explosion, can Ben, Harry, William and Sally find a way out.
Brainless Bugger    by Peter Knowles
Price: $2.99 USD. 25440 words. Published on September 14, 2010. Fiction.
The fictional story of a boy growing up in the 1950's.
Sargeant Sergeant    by Peter Knowles
Price: $2.99 USD. 51640 words. Published on April 24, 2010. Fiction.
Sargeant Sergeant is the original,longer uncensored version of the book Once Upon A Time in the Army. The door flew open, banged against the wall. Stood in the doorway was a girl wearing a blue low cut evening gown that didn’t leave very much to the imagination, one strap kept falling off her shoulder revealing her breast.carrying her shoes in one hand and an empty glass in the other.
Club Seventy Seven    by Peter Knowles
Price: $2.99 USD. 24690 words. Published on April 13, 2010. Fiction.
Town End Cafe,aka Club 77 was not a club as such,in fact it wasn’t a club at all just a back street cafe. The 77 came from the address of the cafe‘No77’,the club,a gang of young teenagers rode motorcycles and dressed the same, leather jackets, ice blue denim jeans, motorcycle boots with white fisherman’s socks turned down over the tops and white crash helmets with 77 on the side.
The Lad    by Peter Knowles
Price: $0.99 USD. 5170 words. Published on March 24, 2010. Fiction.
The story of a boy called 'Lad'. His dad had a piece of pit belting, not a belt to hold up his trousers, a piece of conveyor belt about two inches wide and two feet long that he used to smack their backsides with, well his at least. I mean, I never recall his sisters being smacked and anyway he was always told that in his family ‘Males do not hit females' Taken from the book 'Brainless Bugger'
Once Upon a Time in the Army    by Peter Knowles
Price: $2.99 USD. 46390 words. Published on March 21, 2010. Fiction.
John Thomas Sargeant was not an officer or an NCO,he never rose above the rank of Private,nor did he ever want to. He had a secret to keep,which would see the end of his army career if it was ever discovered? But what was he really looking for? Why was he in the army when he didn’t have to be? This is the story of his time in the army and the people he met along the way.

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