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Release news, updates and background on Keith A Pearson’s novels: the time-travel comedies, the Clement mysteries and everything in between.
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October 2016 Revisited: Ten Years Back to the Month The ’86 Fix Arrived
In October 2016, a litre of unleaded cost 116.73p, and the RAC declared it a historic month at the pumps. For all the wrong reasons. Petrol had climbed more than 4p in four weeks, the steepest…
Continue reading →Echo Lane Books One and Two: A Recap
A recap of No Easy Deeds and The Fourth Clause before No Onward Chain is released in September 2026. Spoilers for both books from the first line, so if you haven’t read either, now’s…
Continue reading →1990 UK Property Market: Cheap Houses, Brutal Interest, Hard Maths
I’m currently writing the third book in my Echo Lane series, set in an estate agency in 1990. That’s led to a lot of research into the UK property market back then, and the numbers…
Continue reading →The Best 1990s Time-Travel Novels (For Readers Who Remember the Dial-Up Tone)
If your formative memories include the dial-up screech, the agony of taping the Top 40 off Radio 1 only for Mark Goodier to talk over the outro, and the strange social currency of owning a…
Continue reading →Best Midlife Crisis Fiction: 7 Novels for Anyone Quietly Doing the Maths
A few years back, I wrote a novel called A Page in Your Diary. It follows a man in his fifties who returns to his home town, discovers what became of the girl he dumped on a phone call from…
Continue reading →The Book Covers I Never Wanted You to See (Plus One You Did)
There’s a folder on my computer labelled, more or less, “Covers Do Not Use Seriously Don’t Even Look.” It contains the previous lives of every novel I’ve ever…
Continue reading →How to Blow £9.7 Million in Eight Years: Terms May Apply
A couple of years ago, I wrote a novel called Terms May Apply. It’s about a bloke called Kyle Hammond who gets exactly what he wished for… a life-changing windfall… only to…
Continue reading →Your Clement Questions Answered
An introduction to my most popular character, with the ideal reading order and over the two different series in which he features. Who is Clement? Clement is a former London gangland fixer who…
Continue reading →Books for Men Who Are Quietly Struggling
This post isn’t for the man who’s already asked for help. He’s taken the hardest step and he’ll find his way. This is for the man who hasn’t. The one who’s…
Continue reading →A Heads-Up – New Year, New Pricing
I recently ran a reader poll on social media, asking you (my lovely readers) if I should hike the price of my ebooks from £2.99 to £3.99 – 85% of you said I should. I would add that I…
Continue reading →An Ode to Kenneth
Last year I decided I no longer wanted to work with a publishing company for my audiobooks. That meant I’d have to take responsibility for all new releases – finding a narrator…
Continue reading →Waiting in The Sky – An Explanation
It’s been one week since I hit the publish button on Waiting in The Sky, and I’ve been blown away with positive responses. To everyone who has bought, read, and reviewed it, please…
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