The Book

Set over five days of late summer, the award-winning Paths Not Yet Taken is 340 intriguing, compelling pages of crises, action and emotional drama, punctuated by dry observational humour.

In a Midlands food warehouse, a Government visit goes badly wrong. The prime minister vanishes without trace before he's had the chance to wave his German sausage at the gathered media. The consequent nationwide search creates massive issues for government, the security services, a local police force, and for a keyboard terrorist who finds the missing man.

Chaos ensues involving drink, dogs, guns and golf. And that’s just at one small end-of-terrace house. Elsewhere, a van explodes, a prospective leader loses it before he’s even started leading, and an assassination attempt goes badly wrong. Twice.

Ultimately, one man’s spur-of-the-moment decision is the catalyst for others to reflect on their own lives and to consider decisive actions of their own.

Just try not to think about the sausage.

(Paths Not Yet Taken won the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction in May 2024.)

The Author

Hello. My name's Phil Rennett.

I spent over thirty years writing all kinds of material for a wide range of organisations, big and small.

Now, I write for myself and, with a bit of luck, for you as well. Writing keeps me out of trouble. It fills the time between walking the dog, playing golf, and chasing storms.

Paths Not Yet Taken is the first in a series of novels, which I hope you'll find interesting, entertaining, thought provoking and funny.

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