about the author

Gary Baker was born in Ashington, Northumberland, but lives in Hartlepool, Co Durham. In his youth, he worked for 5 years as a wage/administration clerk at various nuclear power stations and later for a housing regeneration company. He volunteered for 5 years at Kyle’s Dream, doing scriptwriting / film making. He wrote a screenplay The Chair Is a Killer and a short story Schmuck but had no commissions. He is sure that people thought he was a Walter Mitty, a dreamer that will amount to nothing!

about the book

Yes Son tells the story of how Madeleine’s life is shattered when she is jilted by her rich sailor fiancé, Jake, after he finds out that she is pregnant. Because of this, she desires rich luxuries and plans to rob a bank in Queensland and to help out her poor sister, Matilda. Needing an alibi, she has a birthday lunch with her alcoholic mother, Annabelle. But her plans are scuppered when she is wanted for the murder of a motorcyclist. His brother, Hamish, a Portuguese drug lord and ruthless vigilante, vows to kill Madeleine in revenge. And so, she hides from him and the Australian Federal Police with her family including her childish brother, Henry, inside a haunted church in a sleepy village of Bibury in the Cotswolds. Years of mental bullying from her father, Maxwell, and her involvement in witchcraft leads her to kill him. Little does she know that he’s an alien on borrowed time from a far-away planet and he has adopted his family in order to study them. Is she guilty and can she escape the Australian Federal Police?

news

HARTLEPOOL LIFE MAGAZINE FEATURED MY BOOK

My book, Yes Son, got featured by Hartlepool Life Magazine. “A WRITER, who battled long term mental health problems and depression to publish his first-ever novel, is “proud” it is now on the shelf ........

I GOT INTERVIEWED ON RADIO HARTLEPOOL

I appeared on our local radio station Radio Hartlepool on Thursday, 3rd February 2022. I talked about my book, Yes Son, and my mental illness to rid the stigma attached to it.

NOVEL ‘LIFETIME’S DREAM’ FOR GARRY

I just got featured in a news article by Hartlepool Life. This news article unfolds how I published my first ever book while battling depression.

blogs

YES SON

So, today, I’ve been busy contacting agents about my screenplay of YES SON which is more or less based upon the book. Although slightly shorter. I always wanted to write a story about a ghost, an al ........

YES SON – ABOUT MY BOOK (BLOG TWO)

The 1st thing I thought about was I wanted to set the book in a perfect setting were nothing ever happens or goes wrong. Were most days are monotonous. Except for the mowing of pristine gardens of t ........

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