- Paperback: 392 pages
- Publisher: M-Y Books; first edition (15 Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955606462
- ISBN-13: 978-0955606465
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,585,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ABOUT THE BOOK Wotcha - a contraction of the 15th century English greeting what chere be with you? Watcher n - a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can t not see, he s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard Winston Smith who s watched by millions - among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who s orchestrating revenge for Winston s teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain. Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who s abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister Christian cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world s media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives - and their own souls - from the filth that s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us - but it s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coal-black humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bitter-sweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those parental advisory stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn t read? In the author s opinion - absolutely not. If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates naughty from evil , I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR As well as being Music Director of Hertford Marquee, Hertford Music Festival, Rock at the Castle and Strum City, Kev s a freelance copywriter and a musician with quite a lot of internationally released records on major and independent labels with bands including Marden Hill, Beamish & Fly, Helium Brothers, After Dark, Spacehoppa and The Takashi O Hashi Project. He finally got round to finishing his first novel after a New York agent read his UK Film Council-commissioned feature film screenplay, St Peters and Paul, liked the writing and asked to see a full length novel. Published by M-Y Books, WOTCHA! is Kev s first published fiction but he s had lots of other stuff in print, including magazine articles, ghost-written books and corporate magazines not to mention countless ads. He also wrote a short film comedy - BUST (also a UK Film Council commission) - which was premiered at the Brief Encounters Film Festival, screened at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Cannes 2003 and the Cambridge Film Festival and featured on Anglia TV s STEPHEN FRY S SHORTS series. Kev s already started writing the book of the St Peters and Paul film and is spending a lot of time failing to write another novel in between gigs with his Clash tribute band, several recording projects and all the other Hertford music stuff.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wotcha totally picked me up and didn't put me down for two days, a great read.
A superb tempo throughout , a fine ending, Who's bought the screenplay ????
A superb tempo throughout , a fine ending, Who's bought the screenplay ????
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I've been totally engrossed in Wotcha...
A must-read for anyone with an ounce of that Srummeresque attitude still inside of them, and if you hav'nt, read it anyway and get some!
It's insightful, funny and very dark...The language (genius), the people (somehow strangely familiar), the places (The Powerstation, indeed!)
A rock n roll riot of a read (as Mr Saunders would probably say)
A must-read for anyone with an ounce of that Srummeresque attitude still inside of them, and if you hav'nt, read it anyway and get some!
It's insightful, funny and very dark...The language (genius), the people (somehow strangely familiar), the places (The Powerstation, indeed!)
A rock n roll riot of a read (as Mr Saunders would probably say)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The perfect mix of raw sex, drugs and rock and roll with black humoured comedy written in beautiful poetic prose; how on earth did Saunders do it?
If this book sounds like your bag, then the characters (so alive, you will beleive they exist) will be you friends and enemies rolled into one. If not then this book will open your eyes and give you an insight into how others live their lifes.
This book should come with a health warning, it is so addictive that your life will temporarily change; you will be totally incapable of putting it down. The only downside is the disappointment of finishing the last page and the not knowing when or if Saunders will produce another like it.
If this book sounds like your bag, then the characters (so alive, you will beleive they exist) will be you friends and enemies rolled into one. If not then this book will open your eyes and give you an insight into how others live their lifes.
This book should come with a health warning, it is so addictive that your life will temporarily change; you will be totally incapable of putting it down. The only downside is the disappointment of finishing the last page and the not knowing when or if Saunders will produce another like it.
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WOW!
Definitely way out of my normal comfort zone but I thoroughly enjoyed Wotcha!
It's a cracking read, funny as hell in places, dark as dark can be in others, but overall I loved... Read more
It's a cracking read, funny as hell in places, dark as dark can be in others, but overall I loved... Read more
Published 3 months ago by ElApe
Cult Classic in the making?
I thoroughly enjoyed "Wotcha"
It's hard to place it into a specific genre - which is no bad thing. Read more
It's hard to place it into a specific genre - which is no bad thing. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Vernon B
An amusingly filthy page-turner.
I'm about two thirds the way through this, and becoming increasingly gripped by it. The humour is dark, but funny, the characters preposterous but believable and the plot complex... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. D. G. Hunt
Engaging, black, amusing
A rare combination of a thriller, an exploration of the darker side of life and a ripping yarn all spun together with just enough humour to give a counterweight.
Published 16 months ago by MikeB
Strangel but ....Cool
This is a sublime book that will challenge your ability in seperating the layers of each characters motivation set amidst a sea of influence and counter influence - to understand... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2008 by Love Books
Kidnap
Kev Saunders kidnapped me with this book, he tied to me to comfy chair and bound in my hand a frothing tankard of sheer creative genius, I drank the whole lot down willingly and... Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2008 by Owp Kennedy
Wotcha!
Wotcha was a great read, it kept me on the hook from start to finish.
Very rock n' roll, very gritty, very intriguing, in fact very shocking in places, but witty and clever... Read more
Very rock n' roll, very gritty, very intriguing, in fact very shocking in places, but witty and clever... Read more
Published on 4 April 2008 by J. Finnigan
Wotcha
The good,the bad, the mad and the ugly all jockey for position in this masterfully woven thriller, which finds our hapless hero in a race for life,in more ways than one! Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2008 by G. Porter
Wotcha!
Anyone who loves Ashes to Ashes should read this! An eighties washed up rock star who will do anything for cash finds himself in the middle of a frantic dash to save the son he has... Read more
Published on 29 Feb 2008 by Vanessa Rogers
Tres Bon (very good)
The first novel by Hertford's "Mr Music" Kev Saunders - musician, promoter and writer among other things - Wotcha! Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2008 by C. Fane
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