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William Fagus
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom (the)
Genres: General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humour, Memoir
Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
The publicity-shy Robert Beech (William Fagus) lives in a remote location close to the sea.
He went to a comprehensive school in an English Midlands industrial town where the teachers still threw blackboard rubbers and chalk about. He left at 16 and entered the job market armed with three middling GCSEs. His parents just wanted him to ‘earn his keep’. He did a number of dead-end manual jobs, until at forty he went to university in a Midlands industrial town, where he gained a number of Arts degrees and was subsequently unemployed. Four years then spent in a dead-end clerical job finally convinced him to become a writer.
William Fagus admires the work of Proulx, Chandler, Steinbeck, R.L. Stevenson and B.B. King. The book that has most influenced his writing is Close Range, by Annie Proulx.
William Fagus' books
The Purple-Bellied Parrot
'A fabulous tale of friendship, love and adventure.’
A rip-roaring, globe-spanning adventure packed with unforgettable characters.
It begins in the sterile apartment of a city executive with unruly nasal hair where the Purple-Bellied Parrot cannot even do the very thing he was born to do.
It ends on the shores of a distant land after an epic journey which tests his courage, his ingenuity and the bonds of friendship to the limit.
A spell-binding, life-affirming tale to evoke laughter and tears from readers 10-100 years old.
Comanche Is Not My Name 1
‘I was birthed a high-plains mustang.
Raised a Comanche buffalo pony.
Got poked by the goddamn posterior bones of Custer hisself.
Life don’t get more entertaining than that.’
At last, the tumultuous autobiography of the ‘one and only living survivor of the fight known as the Little Big Horn.’ Indian buffalo runner, homestead workhorse, wolfer, Indian warhorse, famous US Cavalry mount, Comanche (not his real name) takes us on an epic journey from the searing high plains of Texas to the frozen wastes of South Dakota and the Wounded Knee Creek. In turn visceral, heart-wrenching and hilarious, we are pitched into an authentic world brimming with unforgettable characters, as two cultures collide.
Comanche Is Not My Name: a riotous tale of survival and triumph set against the stark beauty of the Great Plains. My Jeopardacious Life on the High Plains is the first part of his extraordinary life.
Comanche Is Not My Name 2
‘I’ve had snow balling around my tail and icicles dangling from my nether regions.
Been blinded by bitter dust, and for want of a sup of agua gagged on a tongue swoll the size of a Mexican turnip.
All to clean out the Plains in the furtherance of commerce and enterprise.
I am the sole surviving witness to the last Indians living wild and free, and the truth of George Armstrong Custer’s final comeuppance.’
At last, the second instalment in the autobiography of Comanche, the self-styled, ‘one and only living survivor of the fight known as the Little Big Horn.’ Comanche Is Not My Name is a tumultuous tale of survival and triumph set against the stark beauty of the Great Plains. My Mithersome Progress to the Little Big Horn is second part of his extraordinary life.