Great Bales of Fire
On sale
10th June 2021
Price: £8.99
More tales of a country fireman, from the author of ALL FIRED UP. Perfect for fans of HEARTBEAT or the brand new TV series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL.
It’s the early 1980s and rookie fireman Malcolm Castle is set to take on the biggest challenge of his life. After three years bouncing around in the back of the country fire-engine, he’s about to start driving it! At just 22-years-old – less than half the age of many of his colleagues – he’s set to thunder through the narrow streets of one of England’s most beautiful medieval towns and speed out across the glorious Shropshire countryside.
But while his responsibilities are changing fast, almost everything else in Malcolm’s life stays the same. Despite facing his fair share of car accidents, house and farm fires, he still seems to spend an awful lot of time answering a string of unlikely and unexpected emergency calls. He rescues shortsighted dogs from frozen lakes, newborn lambs from flooded golf-courses, a pair of angry cows from a busy dual carriageway – and even a hot-footed hamster from a burning cage. Backed up by a heartwarming cast of fellow firemen, Malcolm’s enthusiasm for his job and his life are as infectious as ever. So whether it is cats up trees or trees on cars, follow Malcolm as he takes to the wheel for another crazy year in the country fire brigade.
Told with the same gentle humour as his first book, ALL FIRED UP, and full of even more extraordinary real-life anecdotes, Shropshire’s longest-serving fireman is back – a little older, a little wiser, and even more convinced he has the best job in the world.
It’s the early 1980s and rookie fireman Malcolm Castle is set to take on the biggest challenge of his life. After three years bouncing around in the back of the country fire-engine, he’s about to start driving it! At just 22-years-old – less than half the age of many of his colleagues – he’s set to thunder through the narrow streets of one of England’s most beautiful medieval towns and speed out across the glorious Shropshire countryside.
But while his responsibilities are changing fast, almost everything else in Malcolm’s life stays the same. Despite facing his fair share of car accidents, house and farm fires, he still seems to spend an awful lot of time answering a string of unlikely and unexpected emergency calls. He rescues shortsighted dogs from frozen lakes, newborn lambs from flooded golf-courses, a pair of angry cows from a busy dual carriageway – and even a hot-footed hamster from a burning cage. Backed up by a heartwarming cast of fellow firemen, Malcolm’s enthusiasm for his job and his life are as infectious as ever. So whether it is cats up trees or trees on cars, follow Malcolm as he takes to the wheel for another crazy year in the country fire brigade.
Told with the same gentle humour as his first book, ALL FIRED UP, and full of even more extraordinary real-life anecdotes, Shropshire’s longest-serving fireman is back – a little older, a little wiser, and even more convinced he has the best job in the world.
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Reviews
Castle relates all (the book's) incidents with humour where appropriate, compassion where needed, and enthusiasm for his work shining out on every page: his fellow fire fighters are portrayed with genuine affection and this account of service in what he calls 'the best job in the world' is a real pleasure to read.