Stephen E Pennykid: 11 books

This is a trilogy where in each of the short stories, two people have become estranged due to their personal circumstances. In This Boy, Martin, a successful author living in the USA, receives an e-mail from his step-brother, who still lives in their home town in northern England. This gets Martin...

This book is a must for all lovers of sixties music. They say that if you can remember the sixties you weren’t there. However, as a teenager at the time, the music made such an impression on me that it is still crystal clear in my mind today. I remember the excitement and anticipation of...

The second volume of MisHits of the 60’s, this selection deals exclusively with American artists, and is my Top 20 personal choice of singles that never reached a UK chart position higher than No 20. As in the first volume, in my opinion these singles deserved a far higher placing. Includes both...

Why would Chief Inspector Robert Casey suddenly announce his retirement? He had constantly told his colleagues that too much experience was being wasted in the pursuit of budget cuts. What two events separated by almost thirty years had caused him to arrive at his decision?

Jenny receives a letter from her estranged father, the contents of which would lead her to make a potentially life-changing decision. What had happened to make her father contact her again after five years with no word? This short story, previously published in Charnwood Tales (Panda Eyes Publishers Ltd, March 2010), combines romance, mystery and intriguing supernatural overtones.

Penny had lost contact with her father in the months following her mother's death. Now, some years later, she had received a letter from him. Why had it taken so long for him to contact her? The letter would take her through her father's voyage of discovery. It would provide some of the answers to their estrangement, but leave her with a life-changing decision to make.

Chief Inspector Robert Casey had been retired only five weeks when the package arrived. The content would change the course of his retirement. This is the second short story in a new series taking the reader through the experiences of a career policeman from his initial investigation as a detective...

Two short ghost stories. The first story, The Sins of Others, explores the consequences of wrong-doing. A man is haunted by a recurring dream after moving into a property he has inherited. The inheritance appeared to be the answer to his prayers but in reality was this the case? Would the dream...

This volume, the third in the MisHits of the Sixties series, deals with ‘B’ sides which in my opinion could easily have been released as ‘A’ sides. As in the two previous volumes, facts about these selections are given as well as personal experiences and observations.In the early days...

Here is another of my personal Top 20’s of singles that never reached a UK chart position higher than No 20. Indeed, one or two didn’t chart at all and another couple were released as ‘B’ sides. This volume, fourth in the series, deals with instrumentals which I think should have charted or...

The third short story in this series sees ex-Chief Inspector Robert Casey looking back at his first involvement in a murder investigation in an effort to identify the sender of the package which so intrigued him and upset his equilibrium in the previous story. How would his unofficial investigations...