The Chair Man

This thriller by Alex Pearl revolves around Michael Hollinghurst, a survivor of the 2005 terrorist attack on London's transport system. Now in a wheelchair, Hollinghurst seeks retribution online, but will soon become a sitting target. The following extracts, personalities, events, organisations and locations are taken from the book published by Fizgig Press. https://booksbyalexpearl.weebly.com/ © Alex Pearl 2019 All rights reserved
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Claude Debussy
One of his favourite ones was by the French composer Claude Debussy and was called Clair de Lune, which meant moonlight in French. He’d never heard it before, but now that he had, he couldn’t get it out of his head; not that he minded. It was the kind of tune that put you in a good mood. And he wasn’t always feeling in a good mood.
"...There are some lovely pieces in the collection including a fab portrait attributed to the world’s first recognised female Flemish portrait painter Catharina van Hemessen who learnt her trade from her father in the mid 1500s. I could bore you for hours about this woman, but don’t worry, I won’t."
Catharina van Hemessen
"...There are some lovely pieces in the collection including a fab portrait attributed to the world’s first recognised female Flemish portrait painter Catharina van Hemessen who learnt her trade from her father in the mid 1500s. I could bore you for hours about this woman, but don’t worry, I won’t."
a black and white photo of a smiling man with the words, 1932 - 2018
Geoffrey Wellum passes away (1921 - 2018) (UK) - BBC News - 20th July 2018
‘Ah, my word. I see you’re reading First Light by Geoffrey Wellum. Had the pleasure of treating him many years ago when I was a houseman. Lovely man. One of The Few you know. Flew Spitfires at the age of 18. They don’t make them like that anymore.’ He exited and closed the door with a click.
a man sitting on top of a snowboard next to the words the chair man
Graphically striking.
a white house surrounded by hedges and trees
Hampstead Garden Suburb
So this was Hampstead Garden Suburb. A little piece of idyllic country living in North West London straight out of the pages of Homes & Gardens. It was the kind of middle-class England that Hasan detested. You wouldn’t find any mosques or halal butchers in this neck of the woods. But you’d find plenty of Christians and Jews - Israel lovers the lot of them.
a man sitting on top of a snowboard next to the words the chair man
Front cover to 'The Chair Man' photographed and designed by John Mac.
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CND
The police knew where he had lived at university. The societies he had joined. The political movements he had been sympathetic to. CND marches he’d been on. They had been particularly interested in a PLO rally he’d been on in Hyde Park in 1976.
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Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Official Audio)
It was ‘cool’ and ‘right on’ in the same way as listening to Bob Dylan and wearing flared trousers were the done things back then.
a man in a suit standing next to a painting and pointing his finger at the camera
Jeremy Paxman on Rembrandt at National Gallery
Jeremy Paxman on why the great Dutch portrait painter resonates so powerfully for him.
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The Best of Bach
His parents, Brian and Hazel had done everything in their power to help their son. They had employed special private tutors, bought him a labrador puppy and taken him to Disneyworld in Florida. But nothing worked as well as J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
a man sitting on top of a snowboard next to the words the chair man
A book cover that stands out from the crowd
© Alex Pearl 2019 All rights reserved 'The Chair Man' published by Fizgig Press is a thriller penned by Alex Pearl that's set in London in 2005. Its protagonist is Michael Hollinghurst, a successful corporate lawyer whose life is shattered when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. Now confined to a wheelchair, Hollinghurst seeks retribution by posing as an Islamist online. But it's an act that will soon turn him into a sitting target.
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The Polo mint
They called it the Polo simply because it was round in shape and had a giant hole in the middle - much like the famous peppermint Polo mint that first appeared in the UK in 1948.
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Garden gnomes
The Bradford Gnome Decapitation case may have been a farcical affair, but Stevens took a pretty dim view of the defendant’s reckless behaviour despite his otherwise good character. And although criminal damage had amounted to little more than a few hundred pounds, it was Ibrahim’s use of an explosive substance that made this case particularly worrisome in the myopic eyes of Stevens.
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Marking 100 years of The Ivy – BBC London News
‘Hi guys. Sorry I’m a bit late, but I thought I’d grab us some lunch from M&S.’ No matter how busy and flustered Natasha could be, she always managed to look as if she was about to be whisked off for lunch at The Ivy. She placed the shopping bag by the door and hugged her brother. ‘I’m loving the beard. Can’t believe you’re my baby brother… So how’s our invalid?’ She pecked Michael on the cheek.