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Tins

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Tins

A highly entertaining and hilariously gruesome comedy thriller – beans on toast will never be the same again!

Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with an eccentric hobby: tin collecting. He likes the lucky dip aspect of buying tins that have their labels missing – after all, you never know what might be inside. It’s Fergal’s idea of living dangerously. That is, until the day he innocently opens up a tin to find… A bloodied human finger.

Everyone thinks it’s a joke. But not Fergal – and when his next tin discovery is a note with the word Help scribbled on it, he feels compelled to track down the factory responsible for these mysterious and macabre products. Fergal might be hungry to play detective… but has he opened a can of worms?

This Dahl-esque black comedy will have readers squirming on the edge of their seats. Funny, frightening and totally gross – Alex Shearer taps into the repulsive-but-appealing tradition of urban myths that are perennial playground fodder.

Type Of BookMiddle Novel
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780330431910
Published28/02/2006
Price Per CopyRRP $14.95
1–9 copies$13.45
10–19 copies$12.70
20+ copies$11.96
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Alex Shearer

Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter and has had great success in that field. His credits include The Two of Us, the 1990s sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. More recently he has started writing for children. His Wilmot stories have been adapted for TV by Yorkshire television, and The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve 1999 by the BBC. The Great Blue Yonder, his children’s novel about the afterlife, was published to critical acclaim by Macmillan, who published The Speed of the Dark in 2003. His boys adventure at sea, SEa Legs, is published by Hodder in June 2003.

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