Horse's Arse

Literature & Fiction

Owen, Charlie

Genre Fiction

Review

<p>It is the 1970s, and Horse's Arse is the affectionate name for Handstead New Town - a north Manchester overspill, and an unholy dump. The police use it as a penal posting, and all the bad egg coppers end up here. Here, they will face the local Tree Top Mafia, and the two factions will battle constantly for control of the urban wasteland.</p>

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Foxtrot Oscar

It's 1976 and England is sweating its nuts off. As an unrelenting heat wave beats down on the nation, the residents of Horse's Arse - aka Handstead New Town, north Manchester - are reaching melting point. The Park Royal Mafia, having recovered from the loss of its senior members, is under new management and open for the business of mindless violence again. Unfortunately their antics have attracted the attention of a psychotic Turkish gangster, who's decided the Mafia is just what he needs to pull himself to the top of the criminal heap. And wading into the middle of it are the Grim Brothers, Psycho, Pizza, Ally - Horse's Arse's finest and the hardestboiled coppers you'll ever meet. With this lot hot under the collar it's all going to end in blood, (a lot of) sweat and tears.

Literary

Headline

Bravo Jubilee

Summer 1977: It's no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a north Manchester overspill. Known to the local cops as Horse's Arse, it's preparing to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. But with football violence, rampant police hooliganism and an expanding LSD market - there'll be a riot going on! Local gangster, Sercan Ozdemir has under-estimated DCI Harrison, head of the CID. Blood on the floor in an interview room is all in a day's work for him. And Ozdemir knows that if his crime family discover he's been doing his own thing, they'll pull his face off. Meanwhile the uniform cops, Psycho, Pizza, The Brothers, Ally and the others, hurl the rule book out of the window and continue to hold the tide of criminal scum at bay for as long as they can in a town they despise...

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The riotous third novel in Charlie Owen's acclaimed seventies police series.Summer 1977: It's no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a north Manchester overspill. Known to the local cops as Horse's Arse, it's preparing to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. But with football violence, rampant police hooliganism and an expanding LSD market there'll be a riot going on...

Two Tribes

1978: The UK is crippled by industrial disputes. Rubbish is piled high in the streets and the dead go unburied. Nothing new in Hanstead New Town, a north Manchester overspill. Except an engineering factory is being picketed by the National Front, and it’s getting nasty. The police think it’s time for action. Chief Inspector Pete Stephenson decides on a subtle solution: a Zulu fighting buffalo formation. Accordingly, the 60-strong patrol group disappear for a month to be trained in Zulu tactics, but most importantly to practice fiercesome chanting. Between them, the cops at Horse’s ArsePizza, Psycho, the Brothers Grimm, and the restready themselves for a showdown with the pickets. But who is going to win this battle of wits and will, and who will end up being beaten senseless?

The brilliant new novel in the hooligan cop series by the acclaimed author of HORSE'S ARSE. It's the seventies, and the boys in blue are preparing for the mother of all riots. The Albion Army are causing havoc north of Manchester, and DCI Dan Harrison needs to pull off something special if his boys are to retain control. As the picket lines form and the two sides square up for battle, a rare moment of inspiration strikes: could the hit movie Zulu provide an ingenious way out of mayhem? Or has the DCI finally lost the plot?

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The brilliant new novel in the hooligan cop series by the acclaimed author of HORSE'S ARSEIt's the seventies, and the boys in blue are preparing for the mother of all riots. The Albion Army are causing havoc north of Manchester, and DCI Dan Harrison needs to pull off something special if his boys are to retain control. As the picket lines form and the two sides square up for battle, a rare moment of inspiration strikes: could the hit movie Zulu provide an ingenious way out of mayhem? Or has the DCI finally lost the plot?

Handstead New Town was a North London overspill and an unholy dump.  As only they could, the Police used it as a penal posting.  Worst amongst the residents of Handstead were the Tree Top Mafia, a gang of violent thugs who terrorised their neighbourhood, the town and surrounding districts.  They, and the officers doomed to serve at Handstead wrestled constantly for dominance. True stoics, the police officers resolved to make a difference in a town they called Horses Arse.   Each group recognised something of themselves in the other.  Not quite mutual respect, but something.  This is the story of some of those Police officers; The Brothers, Psycho, Bovril, Pizza and others, a group of hooligans in uniform and their journey through manic excess, despair and finally some form of salvation.  Police officers like these used to exist but their like have passed on.  Only accounts like this one serve to remind us that once upon a time, police officers just got on with policing.

Horses Arse

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

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Parenting & Relationships

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Horse's Arse

Horse's Arse

Foxtrot Oscar

Bravo Jubilee

Bravo Jubilee

Two Tribes

Two Tribes

Two Tribes

Horses Arse

Men in the Nursery: Gender and Caring Work