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It's everybody's ideal to raise their children in the countryside. Best-selling author Mike Pannett lived that dream in the 1960s & 70s. For a young boy with an enquiring mind, the English countryside and its beautiful coastline were one big adventure playground peopled by larger-than-life characters and with endless opportunities for fun. Given a fishing rod, a bottle of pop and a jam sandwich, a boy could wander as far as his bike would take him, and never be asked what he'd been up to when he got back for tea. A Likely Tale, Lad is Mike's reminisences of that idyllic childhood, and reminds us of a time of laughs and larks growing up in the 1970s.

Mike Pannett was born in York, and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1988. He became one of the youngest officers to be given his own patch, and served on the Divisional Crime Squad, Murder Squad and TSG (Riot Police). He transferred to North Yorkshire Police in 1997 as he missed the countryside - and fly fishing! He became a rural beat officer and eventually, a wildlife officer. In 2005 he starred in the BBC`s Country Cops and was inspired to write about his adventures in the North Yorks force. Mike served nearly twenty years in the police, during which he became one of the highest commended officers. He lives with his wife Ann, who is still a serving police officer, and their three children in a small village in the shadow of the North Yorkshire moors.