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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Book List in Order: 26 titles



  • Play Script. Lie Detector... "a stylishly quick-witted piece... evokes shades both of Guantanamo Bay and modern corporate culture... as funny as it is cutting". Decca Aitkenhead [The Guardian] Lie Detector ...is set in an interrogation room deep in t...



  • Play script. "An original and comic production... highly watchable" Edinburgh Evening News. "Covers everything from the brutish bouncer you see on a Saturday night to those banal and all-too-familiar upper class yuppies..." The Scotsman. Produced by ...



  • The thunderous applause has scarely died away on Michael Rawn's hit debut as a Broadway actor-playwright when death, mystery and intrigue come crashing into the destinies of the young genius and his associates. At stake are the lives of such theatric...



  • A Christmas story for those of us who believe in Santa Claus. In the interests of modernisation Santa Claus has been made redundant and sent to live in a retirement home by Mr Bigwig, who has re-branded Christmas-land as 'Santaclaus@xmasland.com'. He...



  • In 1927 a chance encounter in a public house with the person who found a solid gold bangle whilst walking his dog was a life changing moment in the life of Captain Cornelius Wood. His journal written in 1956 was found only a few years ago by his gran...



  • If you have read 'Grinding Halt' you will soon guess that 'More From Grinding Halt' continues the story. You will read about Nobby Clifton's 'box' containing his retirement fund, the wife from hell with the pink rinse, an unexpected romance that catc...



  • A manuscript is discovered in the rafters of a public house being demolished, it was written by Brother Barnabus of Willenhall Priory in the fourteenth century and has now been transcribed by Doctor Morgan Fairtlough. It tells the story of the very f...



  • An affectionate look through rose-tinted spectacles of life as we knew it in 1952, in a small community of four houses up a 'yard' as they were called in a small town in the Black Country. This started life as a radio play for Dame Thora Hird but has...



  • It is 2025 and our story is set in a devolved UK region where the police service is sponsored by 'Crimecrackers - working in partnership with a police officer in your area'. This is emblazoned along the flanks of every police car. 'Crimecrackers' is ...






  • Auntie Muriel decides that Santa Claus has been Santa Claus for quite long enough andit is about time he went back to being Neville Entwhistle and moved to live at Bide-a-Wee retirement home by the sea for Christmas-land workers. Auntie is determined...



  • Further adventures with those lovable rogues Sir Enoch du Wulfrun and his estates manager formerly squire, Elijah Morgan in the village of Willenhalch in the early fourteenth century. We meet again Mad Peggy Clackett, her daughter Daft Alice Clac...



  • This is the third and final story in the Josh and the Snow Domes trilogy. Once again Josh and his sister Hayley are destined to save Christmas-land from the clutches of Mr Bigwig and his Auntie Muriel who intend to demolish Christmas-land and buil...



  • This is the third and final novel in the Up a Duck series, depicting life in a small community in the heart of England circa AD1320. Sir Enoch and Elijah are now very much at home and in this volume we read of their weddings, the involvement of King ...



  • This carries on the saga of life in a small community of terraced houses Up Our Yard - with slight embellishments as seen through the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia - leading up the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953....



  • Two pixies, Holly and Ivy are found hiding in a pink plastic teapot by Hayley, Josh's sister, they are hiding from Graham the gnome who has captured all the other pixies and elves to work down the sequin mine. Josh and Hayley are enlisted by...



  • Once again Mister Bigwig tries to take over Christmas-land, this time he wants to build a twenty first century Christmas-land on the moon and declare himself the new Santa Claus; unfortunately his butler Jacky turns against him and tries to take over...
















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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Yates has published 26 books.

Peter Yates does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Once upon a cofid morn, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Peter Yates, Lie Detector, was published in January 2009.

No. Peter Yates does not write books in series.