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A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century.
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A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It’s quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital’s streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now, instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers, he’s chasing runaway bullocks, holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road and combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonel’s balls. Mike’s first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons and some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire, its breathtaking scenery and wide variety of characters and communities.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being married to a Yorkshire city/rural Bobby for over 30 years I just couldn't resist this, and I wasn't disappointed. It brought back wonderful memories. He's just so spot on! Who wants misery rubbish publishers keep pushing at us? This book made me smile and left me feeling good to be alive. More please.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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I had a hunch when this book arrived through the letterbox that I would enjoy it, and I was not disappointed! It was enjoyable on so many levels. As well as immersing you in the world of a northern bobby it paints a wonderful portrait of the part of the Yorkshire I love and in which I grew up. At times touching, gripping and hilarious, Mike Pannett truly is a modern day James Herriott. I haven't enjoyed a book so much since I was a boy.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book by chance after seeing an advert in a magazine.As a retired rural police officer and with family living in North yorkshire I thought it was worth a look.I was not to be disappointed.It actually features the village where my son lives and I was able to 'identify'some of the characters that the author had cunningly disguised.I really enjoyed this book from start to finish and was sorry when it ended.Knowing the locality helped but also knowing the job as well made this such a worth while read.I easily identified with all the situations that Mike found himself in and his descriptions were brilliant.This is definitely the best police memoirs book I have read.
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Now Then Lad
This book sets the scene in rural North Yorkshire from a Policing point of view and shows not only the character of the author but also of his colleagues and other characters in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by ret syp bobby
Appen you'll enjoy this ..............
A highly readable and entertaining book interspersing the needs of the job and situations arising with a sprinkling of the author's personal life. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Barrington Blythe
A thoroughly brilliant read
Monday, February 27, 2012"Now Then Lad..." by Mike Pannett
This has been, by some considerable distance, my favourite book of the last 20 years. Read more
This has been, by some considerable distance, my favourite book of the last 20 years. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Martin White
A cracking easy read
As someone who normally reads your average run of the mill crime fiction, i fancied a change and being a caravanner and spending a lot of time in the Yorkshire countryside saw... Read more
Published 3 months ago by savageetbeau
Cracking Read
I'm not a big reader, just 3-4 books a year, most of which are read on the beach every summer. However this one really grabbed me. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. M. J. Cooper
A great read
Being a serving officer I really looked forward to catually reading Mike's book. I was not disappointed and read it from kindle cover to cover. Funny and refreshing! Read more
Published 3 months ago by H M Sanghar
a bloomin good read
Accidentally stumbled across the book whilst having a look through the books that were in Amazon's "12 day's of Christmas" deals and after reading the electronic equivalent of the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by jimnicebutdim
Funny
Us old timers remeber when life was like this. We live in the North so can understand a lot of the humour. Very good book for the price.
Published 4 months ago by Dotty
Proofread ?
A great tale but why did the publisher not get a decent proofreader. On some pages basic grammar and spleiing is wanting eg on one page Ed is also splet ed several times, on... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Les Roberts
The James Herriott of Policing...
This book provides an enthralling insight into rural policing in North Yorkshire where past traditions & present seem to meet. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Aitch290
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