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Pete Pitman

Pete Pitman was born in a Salvation Army Home for Unmarried Mothers in 1953 in Birmingham. His parents were born and bred in Nottingham and he spent most of his life there. He left school without any qualifications and worked in the factory around the corner. He started writing on the bus to the Job Club when in his fifties. He's had more than a dozen short stories published and a few poems. He's in the process of rewriting his two children’s adventure novels.
Pete Pitman

Pete Pitman

Pete Pitman was born in a Salvation Army Home for Unmarried Mothers in 1953 in Birmingham. His parents were born and bred in Nottingham and he spent most of his life there. He left school without any qualifications and worked in the factory around the corner. He started writing on the bus to the Job Club when in his fifties. He's had more than a dozen short stories published and a few poems. He's in the process of rewriting his two children’s adventure novels.
Realism
Pete Pitman

Fostering Hope

The trolley creaked and moaned under a mound of books, CDs and Audiobooks as I wheeled it down the echoing corridor. I halted beside an

 
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Black Humour
Pete Pitman

Transformers

One morning, the respected author, Felix Prood, woke to find he’d changed into one of his characters. He’d invested two years of his life on his

 
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