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    Every Which Way but East
    I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday
    A Question of Alignment: The Tom Fletcher Stories, #2
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    The Tom Fletcher Stories Series

    By Barnaby Wilde

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    About this series

    Tom Fletcher is a worried man. Middle aged and balding, he hasn't sold a house in weeks and his job is on the line. His wife is cheating on him and he is falling in love with his secretary.
    He is bewildered by the world. Animate and inanimate objects take on personalities and behaviours in his fertile imagination which make even the commonplace events of daily life into battlegrounds where misunderstanding and confusion reign.
    All he asks is to be loved, -- but not by the intimidating Carole who contrives and schemes to get him into her bed.
    In his mind there is a simple solution. Kill his wife and marry his secretary. But where to get the gun?
    Pausing only to reflect on topology and the meaning of life, Tom pursues a single minded route through a minefield populated by topless dancers and hippopotami, only slightly phased by a tendency to see people as donuts, and use Exchange and Mart as his guide.
    Frogs, Pizzas, Water Beds, Pygmies, Licorice Flavoured Condoms and an Ostrich all have key parts to play in this drama of everyday folk.
    This is a love story, or perhaps a murder story, or maybe it's just a tale about a man who doesn't own a decent jacket.
    .... and in the background lurks the mysterious Geoffrey, without whom the story would be incomplete.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnaby Wilde
    Release dateNov 8, 2011
    Every Which Way but East
    I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday
    A Question of Alignment: The Tom Fletcher Stories, #2

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      A Question of Alignment: The Tom Fletcher Stories, #2
      A Question of Alignment: The Tom Fletcher Stories, #2

      A Question of Alignment: The Tom Fletcher Stories, #2

      Barnaby Wilde
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      Something is going wrong with the Lottery. There hasn't been a jackpot winner for eight weeks. Something is also going wrong with the weather. It just won't stop raining. Balding, middle aged Tom Fletcher is an unlikely man to save the universe. In fact he is an unlikely man to do anything requiring action, but when the family cat talks to him and then walks through the sitting room wall even he is intrigued. The cats have discovered that someone from a parallel universe is trying to alter the laws of probability by exchanging Lottery balls. Unfortunately, although all cats are born with the ability to travel between parallel worlds by the simple method of walking through perfectly aligned east/west walls, they are not born with hands suitable for opening doors or carrying Lottery balls. Tom's cat, Smokey, (or Boudicca as she has nicknamed herself) has oversold Tom's abilities to her peers but despite his poor juggling skills they adopt him as their leader and set out on a quest for the mysterious 'Smith'. Soon, Tom is littering the adjacent universes with stuff that just shouldn't be there, creating more problems than he is solving; like how to hold up his trousers when his belt is two dimensions away or how to explain to his wife the presence of a white lace thong in his spectacles case.

      Something is going wrong with the Lottery. There hasn't been a jackpot winner for eight weeks. Something is also going wrong with the weather. It just won't stop raining. Balding, middle aged Tom Fletcher is an unlikely man to save the universe. In fact he is an unlikely man to do anything requiring action, but when the family cat talks to him and then walks through the sitting room wall even he is intrigued. The cats have discovered that someone from a parallel universe is trying to alter the laws of probability by exchanging Lottery balls. Unfortunately, although all cats are born with the ability to travel between parallel worlds by the simple method of walking through perfectly aligned east/west walls, they are not born with hands suitable for opening doors or carrying Lottery balls. Tom's cat, Smokey, (or Boudicca as she has nicknamed herself) has oversold Tom's abilities to her peers but despite his poor juggling skills they adopt him as their leader and set out on a quest for the mysterious 'Smith'. Soon, Tom is littering the adjacent universes with stuff that just shouldn't be there, creating more problems than he is solving; like how to hold up his trousers when his belt is two dimensions away or how to explain to his wife the presence of a white lace thong in his spectacles case.

    • Every Which Way but East
      Every Which Way but East

      Every Which Way but East

      Barnaby Wilde
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      Retired, bored, bald Tom Fletcher uncovers another dastardly plot to change the laws of probability. Pausing only to take part in a Speed Dating evening, he is soon creating havoc across multiple universes dressed as a duck. Can Tom beat the Smiths? Will he find love? Can he play darts? What's a duck got to do with anything? This book should only be read by people with a sense of the absurd.

      Retired, bored, bald Tom Fletcher uncovers another dastardly plot to change the laws of probability. Pausing only to take part in a Speed Dating evening, he is soon creating havoc across multiple universes dressed as a duck. Can Tom beat the Smiths? Will he find love? Can he play darts? What's a duck got to do with anything? This book should only be read by people with a sense of the absurd.

    • I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday
      I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday

      I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday

      Barnaby Wilde
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      Tom Fletcher is a worried man. Middle aged and balding, he hasn't sold a house in weeks and his job is on the line. His wife is cheating on him and he is falling in love with his secretary. He is bewildered by the world. Animate and inanimate objects take on personalities and behaviours in his fertile imagination which make even the commonplace events of daily life into battlegrounds where misunderstanding and confusion reign. All he asks is to be loved, -- but not by the intimidating Carole who contrives and schemes to get him into her bed. In his mind there is a simple solution. Kill his wife and marry his secretary. But where to get the gun? Pausing only to reflect on topology and the meaning of life, Tom pursues a single minded route through a minefield populated by topless dancers and hippopotami, only slightly phased by a tendency to see people as donuts, and use Exchange and Mart as his guide. Frogs, Pizzas, Water Beds, Pygmies, Licorice Flavoured Condoms and an Ostrich all have key parts to play in this drama of everyday folk. This is a love story, or perhaps a murder story, or maybe it's just a tale about a man who doesn't own a decent jacket. .... and in the background lurks the mysterious Geoffrey, without whom the story would be incomplete.

      Tom Fletcher is a worried man. Middle aged and balding, he hasn't sold a house in weeks and his job is on the line. His wife is cheating on him and he is falling in love with his secretary. He is bewildered by the world. Animate and inanimate objects take on personalities and behaviours in his fertile imagination which make even the commonplace events of daily life into battlegrounds where misunderstanding and confusion reign. All he asks is to be loved, -- but not by the intimidating Carole who contrives and schemes to get him into her bed. In his mind there is a simple solution. Kill his wife and marry his secretary. But where to get the gun? Pausing only to reflect on topology and the meaning of life, Tom pursues a single minded route through a minefield populated by topless dancers and hippopotami, only slightly phased by a tendency to see people as donuts, and use Exchange and Mart as his guide. Frogs, Pizzas, Water Beds, Pygmies, Licorice Flavoured Condoms and an Ostrich all have key parts to play in this drama of everyday folk. This is a love story, or perhaps a murder story, or maybe it's just a tale about a man who doesn't own a decent jacket. .... and in the background lurks the mysterious Geoffrey, without whom the story would be incomplete.

    Author

    Barnaby Wilde

    Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.

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