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Andrew K. Lawston

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in Salisbury, The United Kingdom

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Humor and Comedy, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Andrew K. Lawston writes quirky comedy fiction over a variety of genres. His writing is infused with the kind of worldview that comes from watching a lot of French cinema and Doctor Who (not necessarily in that order), and reading a lot of Pratchett, Dickens and Shakespeare.

His best-known series is Detective Daintypaws - the adventures of a crime-solving cat in the south west London suburb of Barnes. Detective Daintypaws is unashamedly modelled on his own cat Buscemi, who passed away at the venerable age of 19 and a half in September 2024. The Detective Daintypaws series concluded in February 2026, as it proved too painful to write about such an extraordinary cat after she'd gone.

With a degree in French, Andrew also translates classic Frenc ...more

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	Something Nice - 10 Stories 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012	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
	Detective Daintypaws: A Squirrel in Bohemia 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Apocalypse Barnes (The Gentrified Dead #1) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Detective Daintypaws: Buscemi at Christmas 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Something Nicer 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	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
	Detective Daintypaws: Murder on the Tesco Express 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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
	Voyage of the Space Bastard 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Detective Daintypaws: Nicking Ben Cloppers: Crime-Solving Cat Adventures 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	Zip! Zap! Boing! (Starship Troupers #1) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Killing Me Softly? An Examination of the Depiction of Violence in the Early Films of Jean-Luc Godard (1960-1967) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 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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Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944)

Today, the UK has been remembering Noor Inayat Khan, a British Muslim who was the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France. English Heritage have erected one of their iconic blue plaques at the flat where she lived in Bloomsbury from 1942-43, and they've put together detailed information on her life and heroic exploits which you can read here.

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This was a fun book that I'd never been particularly aware of up to now. A distinctly unreliable narrator takes us through his life which, as you can imagine for a Robert Rankin novel, is largely based in Brentford and involves quite lengthy scenes t ...more
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A tale of strange goings on in the bestest borough of Brentford. But what has happened to the fabled drinking house, The Flying Swan? Russell Nice, a hard-working, pleasant young chap, goes off one lunchtime in search of the hallowed pub and its lege ...more
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“I’m Detective Daintypaws, and you’re nicked! By the power vested in me by, uh, a waiter who turned out to be the twisted pawn of an insane primal deity, I’m arresting you on suspicion of grand theft cheese - I’ll think of a clever pun later, I’m sure there is one.”
― Andrew K. Lawston, Detective Daintypaws: Buscemi at Christmas

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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
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“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
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“What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly