- Paperback: 228 pages
- Publisher: Brambling Books (1 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 095495632X
- ISBN-13: 978-0954956325
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,858,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The squashed nose on a wet pavement, followed by a brutal yet comic internment lead our hero to a gut-wrenching escape. A dangerous winter trek across the Northumberland Moors, even with a shocking surprising amorous interlude to raise the temperature a little, helps our criminal to survive however he can in the backstreets of Cumbrian towns. But he can't just hide, he has to find out who is after him and what he discovers is more than is good for him. Keeping just in front of a devious assassin, his frequently changed identity crosses to Amsterdam where he gets his friends into trouble. Can he find out what is really going on? Can you find out before him? The clues are all here.
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This is a fugitive story, laced with naughty bits, but much is authentically researched. All the places and landscape descriptions are real even if the characters are fictional. You will know them though. The criminal society portrayed exists under different names. I suspect you know that too.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Escaping Reality" is exactly what you'll do when reading Geoff Nelder's debut crime novel. Your everyday, nine-to-five job life will become pretty attractive once you're confronted with all the crazy stuff that can completely screw up a person's life.
But it's more than simply a crime novel. The story drops you in the gruel and misery of Gerry Rickett's life, a wrongfully excused musician trying to clear his name by finding out the truth while staying out of the hands of as well the police as the real bad guys. Geoff Nelder has written what is essentially a road movie, combining suspense and humour to create a story that will crawl under your skin. And it takes you where no sane man would dare venture: Holland.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Musicians and librarians will never be the same again!
Geoff's book finds and sustains a blistering pace from start to finish.
The dash across open countryside reminds me of passages Gash used in a number of Lovejoy books... in fact, there are certain similarities with Geoff Nelder's protagonist and Gash's (original) Lovejoy (not the horrible sanitised TV version!)
This is an entertaining, enjoyable book. Please buy it. And then go and study your local librarian!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
ESCAPING REALITY - GEOFF NELDER
If you like your prison escape stories written with ironic humour, your international jewel theft books full of quirky musicians and your librarians sexy, this is the book for you. If you're never considered any of these apparently jarring concepts, now's your chance. Ostensibly a straightforward "I've been framed and I'll prove it" novel, Escaping Reality itself escapes reality and turns into a tour-de-force of plot-twisting, fell-walking, identity-hiding computer-hacking riotous turmoil. As a stiff-necked literary critic might say, it also underlines the existential meretriciousness of solipcism. The rest of us might just say that it reaffirms the fact that we are all, ultimately, on our own. But don't let that get you down - the protagonist (he's no hero!) triumphs, gets his own back to some extent and even manages to have a surprising amount of naughty stuff on the way.
The book reads as if it has two parts - the opening mystery/who-dun-it set-up during which you think "That's couldn't have happened" and "That's just unlikely" and the second half - more of a thriller - in which you see that "Ah! THAT'S how it happened" and "Of course, that makes sense", all laced with quips, humour and an acceptance that bicycles sometimes have minds of their own. The action takes in prison life, what it's like to be a jobbing musician, good cops, bad cops and atmospheric, detail-drenched settings in Cumbria and non-tourist Amsterdam. Any more would give it away, and the plot deserves to be discovered as you read (and re-read, because you just won't get all the darker and complex undertones first time around).
Comparisons are invidious - and there's no other book to compare it to, anyway - but imagine an Alistair Maclean novel written by Robert Rankin after looking at too many Salvador Dali paintings on a rollercoaster. Or something like that. Better still, buy it and read it - you won't be disappointed.
But you might wish all librarians were a bit more like Wendy.
If you like your prison escape stories written with ironic humour, your international jewel theft books full of quirky musicians and your librarians sexy, this is the book for you. If you're never considered any of these apparently jarring concepts, now's your chance. Ostensibly a straightforward "I've been framed and I'll prove it" novel, Escaping Reality itself escapes reality and turns into a tour-de-force of plot-twisting, fell-walking, identity-hiding computer-hacking riotous turmoil. As a stiff-necked literary critic might say, it also underlines the existential meretriciousness of solipcism. The rest of us might just say that it reaffirms the fact that we are all, ultimately, on our own. But don't let that get you down - the protagonist (he's no hero!) triumphs, gets his own back to some extent and even manages to have a surprising amount of naughty stuff on the way.
The book reads as if it has two parts - the opening mystery/who-dun-it set-up during which you think "That's couldn't have happened" and "That's just unlikely" and the second half - more of a thriller - in which you see that "Ah! THAT'S how it happened" and "Of course, that makes sense", all laced with quips, humour and an acceptance that bicycles sometimes have minds of their own. The action takes in prison life, what it's like to be a jobbing musician, good cops, bad cops and atmospheric, detail-drenched settings in Cumbria and non-tourist Amsterdam. Any more would give it away, and the plot deserves to be discovered as you read (and re-read, because you just won't get all the darker and complex undertones first time around).
Comparisons are invidious - and there's no other book to compare it to, anyway - but imagine an Alistair Maclean novel written by Robert Rankin after looking at too many Salvador Dali paintings on a rollercoaster. Or something like that. Better still, buy it and read it - you won't be disappointed.
But you might wish all librarians were a bit more like Wendy.
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Fascinating, scary and funny
I'll admit I read this only because Geoff Nelder was my Geography teacher (and a good one), but knowing him from school I've no idea where he got in depth information that makes... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2009 by Mr. M. Jones
Heart Beat Laughter
Is it a thriller, murder, comedy, twist at every turn? It's the LOT, and Geoff Nelder shows us what an excellent writer he is. Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2007 by L. B. Lux
Escaping all over the place
I like this book! Geoff Nelder displays his talent for breathing effortless scene changes and slickly-produced plot developments in to his writing. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2006 by Mr. B. Jones
I am in this book!
This book is incredible! I AM Wendy, the lusty busty librarian. Maybe Geoff Nelder has seen me in one of the libraries I work in. Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2005 by Liz Coffee Shop
Subtle undertones
This is a sneaky book, Geoff Nelder. It masquerades as an escapist adventure book, a boysEown story with a dash of sex; like that Liverpool reader says Ea road book that should... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2005 by Redhead
Better than ever
I read Escaping Reality in an earlier incarnation about 2 years ago. I read it 4 times and each time found new twists. Now it is neater crisper and even better. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2005 by Scouser32
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