BESTSELLER *Spain Tomorrow was ranked No. 3 in Bestseller Travel Books in September 2020!*
*Just published! 'Dicky & The Dame', set in 1963 - your Granny is going to love this!
* Just published! 'The Smug': Have you ever wondered how to rescue your local pub for the community? Oh, and catch a killer along the way!
*Just published! 'Poo, Power and Politics' is a political satire covering very topical issues following the General Election in the UK!*
*Just published 'Sarah's Kitchen'. The perfect gentle and humorous romantic read for your holiday!*
Bob Able is a bestselling writer of popular memoirs, fiction and thrillers. He describes himself as a ‘part-time ex-pat’ splitting his time between his homes in coastal Spain and ‘darkest Norfolk’ in the UK.
His memoir ‘Spain Tomorrow’ was rated as Amazon's third most popular travel book in September 2020 with hundreds of positive reviews. With the sequel ‘More Spain Tomorrow’, followed by ‘Third Helpings of Spain Tomorrow’, these charming lighthearted insights into his life continue to amuse readers.
All his books are available as ebooks and paperbacks and can be found by entering ‘Bob Able books’ in the search bar.
If you like Bob Able’s distinctive writing style and would like to read more of his work, here is a little more information…..
*’Poo, Power and Politics’ now published as an ebook and a paperback* A political satire and a look at what might happen.
*’Sarah’s Kitchen’ now published as an ebook and a paperback* A gentle romance, ideal to take on holiday
*’Dicky And The Dame’* is just released - set in 1963 and a historically accurate picture of the times.
* 'The Smug' - The very latest book - catch a killer while helping Ukrainian refugees and setting up a community pub!
Bob Able writes with a lighthearted touch and does not use graphic descriptions of sex or violence in his books, that is not his style. He prefers to leave that sort of thing to the reader’s imagination.
He has produced a new series of lighthearted thrillers which will amuse as well as captivate readers. They are ideal light reads to take on holiday. The Bobby Bassington Stories include:
‘Bobbie And The Spanish Chap’,
‘Bobbie And The Crime-Fighting Auntie’,
‘Bobbie And The Wine Trouble’
And ‘Auntie Caroline’s Last Case’
All these books can be read on their own, although if you read them as a series, ‘Auntie Caroline’s Last Case’ draws all the strings together and completes the tales of the lives of the characters we meet along the way.
Early reviewers had suggested that these stories would make an engaging TV series and of course Bob would be pleased to hear from television companies and promoters to explore that option!
His fictional novels include:
‘Double Life Insurance’ a fast moving but lighthearted thriller, where Bobbie Bassington first makes an appearance, fresh out of university:
‘No Point Running’ which is set in the world of horse racing and car theft in the 1970’s before mobile phones and the internet:
‘The Menace Of Blood’, which is about inheritance, not gore, and the sequel
‘No Legacy of Blood’.
They are all engaging thrillers, with a touch of romance and still with that gentle, signature Bob Able humour.
His semi-fictional memoir ‘Silke The Cat, My Story’, written with his friend and wine merchant, Graham Austin and Silke the Cat herself, is completely different. Silke is a real cat, she lives today in the Costa Blanca, and her travels, which she recounts in this amusing book, really happened (also available as an audio book).
Here is what Bob says:-
Hi, I'm Bob Able. I'm what you might call a 'part-time ex-pat' with a home in Norfolk in the UK, and one on the Costa Blanca in Spain. My first book, 'Spain Tomorrow', was a lighthearted memoir about how we came to buy our property in Spain and the joys, trials, and wonderful people we encountered as we discovered the area, repaired the property (over and over again, it seemed) and got to know the less touristy bits of the northern Costa Blanca. The sequel 'More Spain Tomorrow' updates readers on what happened next, and how I coped with cancer ... and now the third part of the chronicle 'Third Helpings of Spain Tomorrow' is available!
If you are thinking of buying a property in Spain, whilst these books are not a 'how-to' guide, I'm sure they will give you an insight into what the process is like... and raise a smile along the way.
We were buying right in the middle of the Brexit Referendum chaos, with tumbling exchange rates, historically low interest rates, and political pandemonium; yet we did it, and we enjoyed the experience!
I have also published several fast-paced novels including the full-length thriller 'No Point Running', set in 1978 before the internet or mobile phones. Then there is 'The Menace Of Blood' and the sequel 'No Legacy Of Blood'. Or there are the Bobbie Bassington books, starting with 'Bobbie and the Spanish Chap; followed by 'Bobbie and the Crime Fighting Auntie', then 'Bobbie and the Wine Trouble'; and culminating in 'Auntie Caroline's Last Case'.
They all have the same lighthearted style, but pace and page-turning tension (and no gratuitous violence or sex).
Don't forget to check out 'Double Life Insurance' with its baffling mystery to unravel and a host of characters to meet including, for the first time, Bobbie Bassington, freshly graduated from Girton College, Cambridge and ready to get up to all sorts of mischief!
As I hope all my novels demonstrate, I like to write using several timelines running simultaneously to engage the reader with the lives of a series of characters and to keep the pace up.
Some of my novels are quite short romances to suit the rush of our busy lives, perhaps wanting a quick story to read as we travel on holiday. An early example of this is found in the two-book 'Menace Of Blood' series which is full of action and charm (and about inheritance, not gore), and 'No Legacy Of Blood' continues the story Peter and Jane started, but involves them in a complex plot with many twists and turns in the 'tale' as they try to discover who is out to do them harm.
But most importantly, all of my writing is lighthearted ... I've been told some of my stories make great 'beach reads', although others have said they would make good TV series, and there have even been comments that 'No Point Running' in particular would make a good film, showcasing the 1970's backdrop against which it is set ... film producers should not hesitate to apply!
'Silke The Cat, My Story' has joined my catalogue and tells the remarkable story of a little black Spanish feral cat who ends up learning to walk on a lead and travels across Europe with her doting human. This book contains individual tales (or should that be 'tails') ideal for parents and grandparents to read to the little ones with many photographs ... Silke is a real cat and lives today in Spain. Her memoir, which will also appeal to cat-loving adults, is only partly fictitious and, while speaking in 'her voice', (that is the fictitious bit) describes the extensive travels that really did take place.
All my books are available on Amazon as ebooks and paperbacks, and if you like them, please do leave a review.
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