Spiky Books

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A woman and a man are sitting together, each enjoying their Kindle book on an e-reader. She's of White appearance, casually dressed n a pullover and jeans, seated on the sofa. He's of east Asian appearance, similarly dressed, seated on a floor cushion leaning against the sofa. The living room decor is simple, minimalist and comfortable, and a bookcase is visible.

Spiky Books started selling Kindle novels in 2012. We offer satire, digital pulp crime humour, quirky romantic comedy and the world’s first theological noir pulp epics.

Wilfred Southall

During his misspent youth, Wilfred Southall served as a reservist officer in a famous British regiment, and fought his way through a PhD in Military Studies from a distinguished university.

After a meandering career his chief claim to infamy is probably a passably witty, moderately biting military satire called The Good Soldier Spike and his Fortunes in the Falklands War.

Wilfred Southall is a nom de plume.

Wilfred Southall portrait; a white man in his twenties, with short dark hair and moustache. He's wearing the mess dress of the Parachute Regiment - a scarlet jacket with maroon facings, white shirt and black bow-tie, and he's smiling into the camera.
Buy The Good Soldier Spike and his Fortunes in the Falklands War

Stuart Moston

Stuart Moston, head and shoulders; a late-middle-aged white man with very short, greying hair and a close beard and moustache. He's smiling at the camera. He's dressed casually in a fleece jacket, and in the background is a winding valley in the Peak District in England.

When he’s not writing, Stuart Moston works as a communications manager in the UK public sector. He’s used to messy situations and things falling over.

He writes romantic humour. Stuart Moston is a pen name.

Buy The Happy News
Buy STARS

Argos Panoptes

Argos Panoptes is a deceased Titan with a hundred eyes. He currently resides in a damp cell in Tartaros, the serious offenders wing of Elysion. (That’s the underworld deep beneath Greece.) There he writes the Olympian Godfather stories, revealing to the modern world what actually came to pass among the leading Hellenic deities of two and three thousand years ago.

Argos Panoptes, head and shoulders.
Buy Olympian Godfather
Buy Troian Godfather
Buy The Godfather’s Curse

Laurence Watkinson

Laurence Watkinson, head and shoulders. He's a heavy-set white man in late middle- age, with a close-cropped chin-beard and moustache. He's wearing a broad-brimmed trilby and a heavy woollen overcoat, both in blue-black, and a fine knitted scarf in a rich bright red.

Laurence Watkinson writes humorous crime stories set in the UK’s favourite seaside town, Blackpool.

He enjoys bad weather. He has a soft spot for old books, grainy movies and dilapidated things.

Laurence Watkinson is a pen name.

Buy Rock and a Hard Place
Buy The Fireworks Start at Midnight
Buy Minority Rapport