Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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Ollie Morcombe is a boy on the verge of manhood. At school he’s an outsider, a pariah, but it wasn’t always so. Once he was a star. A talented musician who aced his exams without breaking sweat.
So, what changed? Ollie did the unthinkable. He grassed up his classmates. Now he’s paying the price, but soon they will instead, and he’ll be off with his dream girl Sophia. She who sells fags and sweeties in a corner shop. Not exactly Romeo and Juliet, but if it works for them.....
Ollie didn’t have a great start in life. Father did a runner, mother institutionalised, his best friend pre-Sophia deceased. Now it’s just him and his grandfather who took him in when he was four at home. So when Gramps is threatened, and Sophia assaulted all bets are off.
This is a nifty little thriller. A shocking tale of Ollie’s descent into madness. It’s not his fault, he’s a sick boy. And he’s a sweet and likable character. Last Lesson is aimed at the young adult market I guess, but it works for me and anyone else who hasn’t properly grown up yet, and still remembers the horrors that the so-called happiest days of your life we’re anything but. Good work James.
