"If you could recreate any movie scene and cast yourself in the lead role, which would you choose?" This chance remark made late one night over the counter of a North London video store brings together four very different characters with hilarious and dramatic consequences.

United only by their love of film, Sadie, Lana, Liam and Tel join forces to recreate cinematic history, discovering along the way that friendship, trust and even love can spring from the most unlikely of sources.

Following my successful foray into the film industry back in the early nineties (I was promoted to assistant manager of my local video store after only two months) I've always wanted to write a book reflecting my love for the silver screen. And what better setting for a cast of quirky characters than the run-down Pirate Video Store? With Pretty Woman still in the Latest Releases section, an outside toilet plagued by the Phantom Crapper and chain-smoking obligatory amongst the members of staff, Blockbusters it certainly isn't. But throughout the course of the book Pirate Video Store becomes the place where friendships are forged, relationships are made - and broken - personal demons are confronted and cinematic history is completely re-written.

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"A delightful novel, very assured, extremely funny, well observed and ultimately genuinely moving, building to a climactic and rewarding ending. Compelling characters, distinctly drawn."
- Contagious Films.

The Scene Stealers - if only life could be like the movies.
Published June 2004 by Hodder & Stoughton.