Guy Bellamy

• Dec-1988
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In the bath one morning Daniel Ward works out how to take 1 million from the local banks without the use of violence. He has always been addicted to puzzles. But, with the money in his hold-all, he thinks it best to leave the country before anybody d...

• Jul-1992
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Having secretly undergone a vasectomy, Max is surprised to hear that his wife is pregnant. This would be painful enough, but Max is off children altogether at the moment as all the teenagers he knows seem to be layabouts or criminals, with even his o...

• Jan-1995
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The expensive Carlton Hotel at Cannes is beyond the reach of most English tourists, but for publishing tycoon Andrew Marner it is the only place to be. However, when others arrive and start enjoying Marner's patronage, an extraordinary adventure begi...

• Apr-1996
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Martin Lomax has, through family connections, become the reluctant owner of the Bali Hotel in Surrey. Still, he finds that life remains fun and is entertained by the company of his customers until an ogre from the past books into the Bali as a weeken...

• Jul-1996
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Four middle-aged men concoct a scheme which involves them insuring their lives, so that if one of them dies the others inherit a tidy sum. Suddenly fate throws a darkly comic chain of mishaps their way: more than one of the men will have a nasty acci...

• Jun-1997
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Sam Dawson and Tim Bonner dream of becoming millionaires, but cannot put their plans into action, or even hold down nine-to-five jobs. Their wives have had enough. With the support of several other wives, they rouse enough energy to move mountains, s...

• Aug-2012
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Bobby Booth's 40th birthday party, an alfresco celebration he has planned with some care, ends in disaster when one of his guests complains that a couple are making love on the lawn. The news is shocking enough, but made much worse when he is told th...

• May-2013
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Fred Carton, at the age of twenty-five, is stranded in a small country town surrounded by bowler hats and umbrellas; he owns neither. He steadfastly refuses to catch an early morning train anywhere, let alone to a City office. If the price of living...

• May-2013
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It is a lazy summer of beach umbrellas and blistering heat. The sea is warm, the sky is blue and life is good â€" or is it?

The Venables’ sun-drenched honeymoon takes a new direction when bridegroom Simon meets a former Page Three girl rel...

• May-2013
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It is Christmas time in a small, modern, utterly featureless town somewhere in the Home Counties, where Bobby Booth lives. The main preoccupations of its inhabitants are drink â€" at the pub generally known as the Planet of the Apes because it is fre...

• May-2013
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From a position of acute poverty â€" no job and the rent owed â€" Fred Carton is suddenly plunged into a situation where a year’s stay in Monte Carlo will save him a Capital Gains tax bill of £600,000.

But he has managed to find the money...

• May-2013
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Compton Sinbury is the idyllic village that you just miss when you are careering down the M3. Nestling in a dip below rising cornfields, its village green and gently meandering river make it a favourite destination for photographers who have been ass...

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For writer Andy Devlin life has always been a struggle. But when his debts spiral out of control and he's forced to sell his home to pay them off, Andy finds himself unable to afford a new place to live. By a malign quirk of fate, calamity strikes hi...