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Stephen Arnott

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Jamaica

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Thriller, Humor and Comedy, Nonfiction

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Stephen Arnott is a UK writer, born abroad, who now lives in East Anglia. He's worked as a freelance feature writer and magazine editor, and has had writing jobs in television and radio.

Aside from Jack Bleacher: a parody, Stephen has also written a number of non-fiction and humour titles. He also writes Dark Age fiction (the Leofric adventures) under the pen name 'S. J. Arnott'.

His favourite thriller author is Lee Child, creator of the indomitable Jack Reacher.

His favourite historical authors include George MacDonald Fraser (Flashman), C. S. Forester (Hornblower), Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey-Maturin), Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe), Alfred Duggan and Mary Renault.

You can find out more on his author website: www.sjarnott.com.

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	Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Stephen Arnott (Goodreads Author), Mike Haskins 3.58 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex: A User's Guide 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eating Your Auntie Is Wrong: The World's Strangest Customs 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1788 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Languid Goat Is Always Thin: The World's Strangest Proverbs 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack Bleacher: a parody 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writers' Guide 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now Wash Your Hands!: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the Life and Times of the Toilet 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1793 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lightning (87th Precinct, #37)

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Stephen Arnott made a comment on his review of Special Deliverance (SBS Trilogy #1) " Yes, the Kent books are great (check out Julian Stockwin too if you've not heard of him). "
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“He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'

'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

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“Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

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“Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.”
― Stephen Arnott, Jack Bleacher: a parody

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“As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.)”
― Richard Curtis & Ben Elton

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“No one talked, but they all said plenty.”
― Lee Child, Personal

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“You wouldn't piss on the French if they were on fire. Yet here you are. You're reacting like this was Pearl Harbor. Why? What is France going to do to you? Stop sending cheese?”
― Lee Child, Personal

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“There was a toilet in the far corner, with nothing in it except basic facilities and about a trillion bacteria. It was like a huge three-dimensional petri dish.”
― Lee Child, Personal

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“For every year humans had been modern, they had been primitive for seven hundred more, which left a residue, and by then the back part of my brain was firmly in charge - My tribe needs you gone, pal. And you're ugly, too. And you're a pussy.”
― Lee Child, Personal

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