The London Pigeon Wars

Nov 14, 2025 9:09 PM

Author:Patrick Neate

Master storyteller Patrick Neate has written a funny, provocative and daring tale of London high- and low-life set among the capital's twirtysomethings. Featuring performance poetry; murder; Trafalgar Square's only fried-chicken induced battle; hat selling; bank robbery for the middle classes, love (and other social ailments); as well as pigeons - lots of crazed, angry thinking pigeons - The London Pigeon Wars is both a comic fable for our times and an exciting bird's eye view of life (and death) in the city.

Reviews

Sexy, moving and well-written...will enthrall as well as excite

—— Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley

In this terrific début, Julie Hilden does what few writers can or dare to: She has written an erotic, truly sexy thriller. 3 is smart, sexy, strange, and impossible to put down

—— Dani Shapiro, author of Family History

Richard Asplin's romp through Hollywood is comic and thrilling. I whipped one page over so fast it tore

—— Ben Hatch, author of The Lawnmower Celebrity

Big cast, big characters and jokes-a-plenty, it puts Asplin straight up there with Carl Hiaason and Mr Elton

—— Emlyn Rees, co-author of Come Together & Love Lives

It is beautifully done. Thorpe perfectly captures the inconsequential nature of adolescence...powerful reading

—— The Economist

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