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Alex Shearer

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Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter and has had great success in that field. His credits include The Two of Us, the 1990s sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. More recently he has started writing for children. His Wilmot stories have been adapted for TV by Yorkshire television, and his children's novel, The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve 1999 by the BBC. Alex's recent novel 'The Speed of the Dark' was shortlisted for the 2002 Guardian Fiction Prize

Alex Shearer lives with his family in Somerset. He has written more than a dozen books for both adults and children, as well as many successful television series, films, and stage and radio plays. He has had over thirty d...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 687 ratings · 140 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Canned 3.58 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Bootleg 3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Great Blue Yonder 3.54 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Stolen 3.79 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sea Legs 4.24 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Speed of the Dark 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Hunted 3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tins 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Lost 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Invisible Man's Socks 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: