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Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

Shoot! Tackle! Murder! street publicity
July 24, 2025July 24, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Book Shop, Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

Book store entry for the novel Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

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‘Shoot!’ – Book Tour Highlights

August 18, 2025August 18, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

The two week book tour, organised by Random Things, is now done. Thanks to the enthusiastic bunch of book bloggers and reviewers who took part. Here are a few highlights from the various reviewers: ‘A heart-warming tale and a thrilling

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Meet Walking Zeds FC

Walking Zeds FC
June 30, 2025July 24, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

Walking Zeds FC are the sporting star’s of Michael A Duffy’s latest novel, published July 2025 – ‘Shoot! Tackle! Murder!’ Taking part in sport only to save their social club from being demolished, on a technical legal point, they battle

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New Novel Out Now!

June 14, 2025July 24, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Shoot! Tackle! Murder!

Pretty excited to announce that I have a new novel on offer – ebook and paperback – on July 1st. It is called ‘Shoot! Tackle! Murder!’ and is billed as a Tragicomedic, Murder Mystery. Once again set in Northern England,

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Peckersley’s Bird Café

April 7, 2024July 24, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Book Shop, Peckersley's Bird Cafe

A FUNNY BOOK. ESPECIALLY FOR GARDEN BIRD FEEDING ENTHUSIASTS EVERYWHERE! A garden bird-feeding fanatic and his troubled wife ride the roller coaster of family relationships, while fending off a social media frenzy and an army of invading squirrels. Marjorie Peckersley

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Book Trailer Video – ‘Peckersley’s Bird Café’

April 5, 2024May 22, 2024
Michael A Duffy
Peckersley's Bird Cafe

Video trailer for the novel ‘Peckersley’s Bird Café.

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The Dung Diggers’ Song

April 3, 2024May 22, 2024
Michael A Duffy
Peckersley's Bird Cafe

As imagined from my latest novel, ‘Peckersley’s Bird Café’. In the story, Norman Peckersley is a now retired farm labourer. But in 1972, he and his mates formed a band known as Norman & The Dung Diggers, scoring a Number

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Book Tour Wrap-up for ‘Peckersley’s Bird Café’

Book Tour success for 'Peckersley's Bird Café'
May 12, 2024August 19, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Peckersley's Bird Cafe

Glad to report that the book bloggers tour for ‘Peckersley’s was a resounding success. Here is a short slide show detailing the highlights:

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Book Bloggers Tour for ‘Peckersley’s’ – the Daily Listings

Peckersley's Book Tour
May 1, 2024August 19, 2025
Michael A Duffy
Peckersley's Bird Cafe

‘Peckersley’s Bird Café went out on its book tour! Running over ten days, from 1st May, I was delighted to hear from the game bunch of reviewers who agreed to give my latest, ‘Peckersley’s Bird Café’ a go. As the

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Book Tour Success for ‘Gavin & The Bodysnatchers’

April 19, 2023May 1, 2024
Michael A Duffy
Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

I was delighted to send my latest book out on a Blog Tour using the services of the lovely Hannah at Hygge Book Tours The resultant reviews were 100% positive and it was clear many people had thoroughly enjoyed the

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A Podcast Interview with Me, by ‘Chill Out With A Books” Pauline Barclay

Chill Out With A Book Podcast
April 19, 2023October 28, 2024
Michael A Duffy
Gavin & The Bodysnatchers, On Writing

‘Chill Out With A Book’ readers’ website was founded in 2016 by Pauline Barclay, herself now an author of nine published books. Its aim was to support indie authors by discovering the best of them and giving them a much

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‘Chill Out With A Book’ Awards For ‘Gavin…’

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

The ‘Chill Out With A Book’ readers’ website has been supporting independent authors since 2016. Its ‘army of readers’ are on the look out for buried treasure amongst the mountain of indie fiction that they are offered to read each

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‘Look Inside’ – Chapter One of ‘Gavin…’

April 18, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

Some towns deserve to be rained on. So, it was justifiably raining that morning in Drabbleton, Lancashire. But grey drizzle, a half-arsed kind of purposeless rain, was all that Mother Nature could really muster. This once proud industrial town, formerly

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Pinterest Images – ‘Gavin…’ Inspiration

Drabbleton
April 18, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

Every now and again, as I wrote ‘Gavin & The Bodysnatchers’, I found it useful to search and save images on Pinterest. These helped me paint the murky scenes of Drabbleton, Lancashire – as well as imaging some of the

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Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

April 18, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Book Shop, Gavin & The Bodysnatchers

Time to cheer yourself up with this dark comedic page turner! When Gavin’s retro joke shop fails and his wife, Marie, leaves him, he finds himself at a crossroads in his life. Seeking a fresh start in employment, his existence

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‘Look Inside’ – Chapter One of ‘Sixth Beatle’

April 18, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Sixth Beatle

NOW… CHAPTER 1 When the gun fired, its blast numbed my ears. The bullet twisted and twirled, piercing through distressed air on its lethal trajectory towards me. Time slowed, as I knew it would, just like I had seen it

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‘Sixth Beatle’ – a novel by Michael A Duffy

Sixth Beatle
April 18, 2023April 19, 2023
Michael A Duffy
Book Shop, Sixth Beatle

As he lays dying from gunshot wound, a troubled forty year old man recounts his childhood in 1970s Liverpool. He must deal with the guilt of his past and so describes the unique way in which he decided to cope

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