Profile: John Bird

About This Author

My published and broadcast output includes two novels,short vfiction, a poetry collection, five plays, television comedy material, and non-fiction books on subjects as diverse as new careers for the over-40s and Britain's treatment of enemy alien civilians in wartime.

This Author's Books

Alby and Me is a powerful and poignant evocation of the friendship of two teenager boys growing up on a tough English housing estate in the late 1940s. Set against a background of family strife, it is a gritty, compelling, often humorous, account of a cri....
ISBN: 9781786105592
Published: 21 December 2015
Alby and Me is a powerful and poignant evocation of the friendship of two teenager boys growing up on a tough English housing estate in the late 1940s. Set against a background of family strife, it is a gritty, compelling, often humorous, account of a cri....
ISBN: 9781784075743
Published: 28 May 2014
Aristocrat at Large is a fast-paced comedy thriller set in the 1950s. Matt Sheridan, a naive young English journalist, goes to California on a madcap mission sponsored by drinking pals at his local pub and, posing as a lord, gets involved in a series of e....
ISBN: 9781908895905
Published: 10 February 2012
Aristocrat at Large is a fast-paced comedy thriller set in the 1950s. Matt Sheridan, a naive young English journalist, goes to California on a madcap mission sponsored by drinking pals at his local pub and, posing as a lord, gets involved in a series of e....
ISBN: 9781786105455
Published: 21 December 2015
The poems in this collection are concerned with religion, politics, love, nature, sadness, joy and other matters having a critical bearing on the human condition. Many of them have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, been read on the radio,....
ISBN: 9781908481092
Published: 16 December 2011
What would animals say to us humans if they could talk. In this little book, aimed at kids from 9 to 99, the thoughts and observations of a varied group of animals from around the world are imagined and, for fun, rendered in rhyming poems. The 26 animals ....
ISBN: 9781786973337
Published: 30 September 2016