Paul Gait

I have always loved writing. It was my childhood ambition to become a published author. Although my school teachers were sceptical about my command of the English language, suggesting I spent too many hours day dreaming on storylines rather than grammatical niceties. Full time work and family commitments delayed any serious attempts to finalise a bookshelf of drafts that I had written. Then in my 'silver age' I studied Creative Writing for Performance at Bristol University. Subsequently getting two of my Radio plays, 'Together Forever' and 'Birdman', 'performed'. My stage play 'Forget Me Not' won Best Original play runner up award at the 2011 Gloucestershire Drama Association One Act Play Festival.

We took 'Forget Me Not' and 'Mountain Heir' on 'tour' to great audience reception.

And now finally I have reached my goal with the publication of my first novel 'Godsons Counting Sunsets.

Update: April 2013

The mining disaster play 'Together Forever' was again performed to the local History Society to great acclaim.

Update: October 2013

As a result of readers positive feedback from the first novel, I have written a sequel novel entitled 'The Godsons Legacy'.

The novel continues the story where 'Counting Sunsets' ends and again is a fast moving, multi-layered plot providing challenges for all the characters.

Update: October 2014

Buoyed by the fantastic feedback from readers, from all over the world I have written the third novel in the Godsons series 'The Godsons Inheritance' to continue the adventures surrounding the characters. The story ends on a cliff hanger. Who is lurking in the bushes?

Update: October 2015

The novel 'Unexploded LOVE' about a love triangle and an Unexploded world war two bomb has really set the pulses racing. Set in and around Cheltenham and the old Gloucester Aircraft Company (GAC) factory where Frank Whittle's jet planes were being developed. The love cheat's life is in the hands of the man he is cuckolding.

Update: September 2016

Gurney Leafmould, a hapless DIYer becomes embroiled in a series of farcical events as he tries to implement his plans. A lively and humorous tale of DIY disasters. Gurney's calamitous CV includes house demolition, a car blaze, blowing up a farm, dumping his Mother in Law in a cesspit.(Readers view A new Tom Sharpe type book)

UPDATE: November 2017

Gurney Leafmould has now been given an ASBO to prevent him from causing anymore infrastructure damage; He now turns his hand to being an investigative journalist and stumbles on a state secret the Ministry of Disruption - a hangover from WW2; into which he causes major mayhem in this second humorous Leafmould tale.

UPDATE: June 2022

I have been so busy writing that I have neglected to update my profile on Author Central ; -other titles that I have penned now include:

A fourth Godsons book entitled 'That Woman' which focusses on Sue the former wife of one of the Godsons. Her greed to get her share of his inheritance knows no bounds as she brutalises her way through the Godsons world.

'Afghan Boy - The Impossible Dream' about two orphaned young Scouts from Afghanistan who try to track down their former Scout Leader who has returned to the UK following the end of his posting.

'Vigilante Nurse' is the story of three nurses who try to right the wrongs of society following the domestic abuse suffered by one of their number at the hands and fists of her husband, a stressed out Policeman.

'Eddy - the lost years' is a poignant story of a mentally fragile young man who is misdiagnosed and lost in the Australian mental health system of the 1980's. The arrival of a new psychiatrist who specialises in hypnotherapy finds the key to unlike Eddy's nightmares

UPDATE September 2023

Just published a fifth GODSONS book entitled RETRIBUTION. Continuing the enthralling stories of the previous four Godsons novels.

Led by the results of a DNA search, Suzette inadvertently opens her family’s ‘pandora’s box’ and falls foul of the law while mistakenly looking for retribution for her sister’s death.

Meanwhile, accused of a conspiracy about the circumstances of the death, the Godsons family close ranks, but the stress on Ben is immense. His anxiety is not helped by his mother’s infatuation with her former partner. But nothing is going to stand in Suzette’s way as she goes all out for Retribution.