Paul Pickering

• Jul-2024
• / Literary

<p><strong>Paul Pickering's new anti-war novel <em>Lucy</em> is about obedience and rebellion, how one survivor in the actual and moral wasteland of immediate post-war Berlin takes over the lives of three others, psychological...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

• Aug-2021
• / Literary

In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African elephant from a cruel circus. But a hundred years lat...

• Apr-2010
• / Literary

Now a famous classical pianist, S. Miles-Harcourt, aka Smiles, arrives in Congo to play a Peace and Reconciliation Concert, and to make amends with his former schoolteacher and mentor, Lyman Andrew, who has buried himself in the war-torn jungle. Smil...

• Nov-1991
• / General Fiction

Jack, a petty criminal seeking meaning, truth, and guidance for his life, embarks on a search for Charlie Peace, a two-thousand-year-old storyteller who had been a source of wisdom and insight for Jack during his Yorkshire childhood...

• Nov-1989
• / Suspense

Pickering's blend of ancient and modern, fact and fable, in this comic tale of a 21-year old ex-classical scholar who becomes entwined in the world of Cold War espionage features ritual murders, whores and bestial secret servicemen. Other novels by P...