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Paul Mendelson

ISBN 978-1-916668-11-9

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Publication: 29 FEBRUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668119
Price: £8.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 368 pp
Thema: FYB Short stories

Author location: London

Comparative title: 9781913551223 Must Have GSOH

• A unique compendium – including a short story,
a novella, a novel and a brief literary 'confection'
– by BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and
acclaimed novelist Paul A. Mendelson.
• A humorous and often touching collection.
• The author has written eight previous novels and
has created several hit BBC sitcoms, including
May to December and My Hero. His ITV drama
starring Martin Clunes, Losing It, was much
acclaimed.
Paul A. Mendelson is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and author.
He has created several hit BBC sitcoms, including May to December Any Lengths to Please is a uniquely entertaining compendium
and My Hero. His ITV drama Losing It, with Martin Clunes, was much by BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and acclaimed novelist
acclaimed. Paul has written nine books, including two for children. Paul A. Mendelson. A short story, a novella, a medium-sized
He scripts his books and three have been optioned for movies. His novel and a brief literary ‘confection’, designed to whet any
novel Must Have GSOH was the only UK Finalist in the Screencraft appetite. The shortest, Einstein, is a quirky love story, set in
Cinematic Book Contest. Paul lives in London. New York State, about a young woman finding her Mr Wrong.
I Can’t be Ill, I’m a Hypochondriac is a semi-

autobiographical and wryly poignant tale about the effect on a
family when a member is diagnosed with a serious cancer. It
tells how life and work don’t stop – they just become infinitely
more fraught.

Sales: Star Book Sales LLP Lost Souls, the novel, is a laugh-out-loud, larger-than-life
T: 01404 515050 fable. It tells of how the scuzziest guy in LA, a soulless,
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com dissolute ‘porn’-broker, has to find love in five days with the

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A Perfect Murder Story, a brief ‘confection’, is told entirely in
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change letters from a script-editing agency to a would-be scriptwriter.
without notice. 15/09/2023 But what sort of plot does the fledgling scribe really have in
mind?