When the law of the land fails to deliver justice, justice can become brutal and … fatal.

Sixteen years ago after an argument with his father, sixteen-year-old Charlie Ashton left Beck le Street, vowing never to return.

Now sixteen years later he is reluctantly drawn back into this incestuous community when his estranged father is charged with the murder of his mother. Charlie’s need to catch the killer destroys the thin veneer of 21st Century normality that masquerades as village life, revealing the raw violence that lurks just beneath the surface.

Does he run, fight or join them? Whatever – he learns there are vigilantes and then there is Beck le Street.

BUY ON AMAZON
OUT NOW

When the law of the land fails to deliver justice, justice can become brutal and … fatal.

Sixteen years ago after an argument with his father, sixteen-year-old Charlie Ashton left Beck le Street, vowing never to return.

Now sixteen years later he is reluctantly drawn back into this incestuous community when his estranged father is charged with the murder of his mother. Charlie’s need to catch the killer destroys the thin veneer of 21st Century normality that masquerades as village life, revealing the raw violence that lurks just beneath the surface.

Does he run, fight or join them? Whatever – he learns there are vigilantes and then there is Beck le Street.

BUY ON AMAZON

Tony Mchale’s work is known to virtually everyone. He has spent over 40 years as a screen writer , working on some of the most well-known UK dramas, many that still appear on our screens today including; EastEnders, Holby City, which he co-created and for which he also won a BAFTA, The Bill, Casualty, Silent Witness, Trial and Retribution, Dalziel and Pascoe, Waking the Dead and many more, as well as his own thrillers Resort To Murder and Headless. Tony’s career started in theatre and recently he has returned to that world to direct various plays and musicals including his own satirical look at fame – Bloodbath The Musical and more recently All Or Nothing which transferred to the West End.

 
However Tony was not satisfied with all his wonderful achievements, his years of experience both writing and in life kept on pushing him towards writing his own book – so that is what he’s done. He’s used his imaginative story-telling to create a captivating novel that can only be described as a ‘page turner’. And he has not just written one book there are more to come. His extensive writing career and diverse life, coupled with his unique understanding of how to keep a reader wanting more, is a winning combination.
 
If you like drama, then Beck le Street is the book for you, and Tony McHale will be the new author everybody’s talking about!

BIOGRAPHY

Tony McHale is not a name you will be familiar but you will definitely know his work.  He has spent over 40 years as a screen writer, working on some of the most well known UK dramas that still appear on our screens today including; Eastenders, Holby City, The Bill, Casualty, Silent Witness and Waking the Dead. Tony’s background in screen writing eventually took him to his love of theatre, where he has directed, Bloodbath The Musical and All Or Nothing.
 
But, Tony was not satisfied with all his wonderful achievements, his years of experience both writing and in life kept on pushing him towards writing his on book – so that is what he has done. He has used his  imaginative story telling to create a captivating novel that can only be described as a ‘page turner’. But, he has not just written one book there are more to come, using his knowledge through years of writing, his experiences through life and his unique understanding of how to keep a reader wanting more, he has a winning combination. 
 
If you like drama, then Beck le Street is the book for you, and Tony McHale will be the new author you are talking about!

LEARN MORE

LEARN MORE

BLOG

TALES FROM THE COP SHOP – PART 2

I know you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for this blog, so here it is – Tales From The Cop Shop – Part [...]

22
Apr
JESUS AND SANTA – THE DYNAMIC DUO

I know it’s a cliché, but the joy of Christmas seems, for a lot of people, to have been swallowed up by the commercialism of [...]

24
Dec
TO INDULGE OR NOT TO INDULGE (THAT IS THE CHOICE) feat TALZ FARADAY

I was going to post the second blog in the Tales From The Cop Shop series, but there was a government announcement last week that made me [...]

14
Dec
TALES FROM THE COP SHOP -PART 1

I was hoping my second novel EDGE OF CIVILISATION would be published in time for Christmas, but for various reasons, it’s now due out in [...]

03
Dec
THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE (OR AT LEAST SOME OF THEM)

At the school I went to, which resembled a foreboding Victorian prison, at the age of 14, you had to make the life affecting decision [...]

08
May
EVOLVE TO THE FUTURE

My last blog on the 12th December – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, I had intended being my last until the New Year, but [...]

28
Dec
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

We got our first Christmas card this year, appropriately enough, on 1st December from friends David and Kay Dunham.  Since then, there’s been a steady trickle of [...]

12
Dec
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

I was trying to think if there was ever a moment in my life when time actually stood still.  I couldn’t think of it.  I mention this [...]

30
Oct
BUGSY AND KRISTOFER.

Two things happened last week that at first didn’t seem in any way connected – but then I realised there was a connection and it [...]

11
Aug
THIS IS NOT PERSONAL SONNY, IT’S STRICTLY BUSINESS

The other day I was watching a documentary about Arthur Miller, the American playwright. For various reasons, I already knew quite a bit about him.  [...]

27
Jul
A BEGINNING IS A BEGINNING WHEN IT’S NOT THE END.

Probably the question I’m asked the most is – “How do I become a writer?” And of course, it’s impossible to answer. The second most [...]

09
Jul
NO VIRUS, NO PINA COLADA, NO PROBLEM.

Round about now, forty-five years ago, I was starting a summer season of plays at the Shanklin Theatre on the Isle of Wight. What a [...]

19
Jun
TAKE THE PLUNGE AND HOPE IT’S NOT THE SHALLOW END

I reckon the biggest question on everybody’s mind at the moment is – “What happens when this lockdown ends, and we get back to ‘normal?’” [...]

01
Jun
TANKED UP HIGH

Last week’s VE day celebrations didn’t quite go to plan in our house.  The only thing that happened how it should - and when it [...]

21
May
PROG JUNCTION

This week I watched the 1968 film Up The Junction. The original book on which the film was based was a collection of sort stories [...]

04
May
MAKE-BELIEVE MEETS CHUTZPAH

A few days ago we were meant to be disembarking from a cruise that would have taken us to a number of Scandinavian countries. But [...]

21
Apr
SNIDE AND PREJUDICE

I started this blog, mainly because the company that handle our PR, Puzzle Communications, thought it would be a good idea.  Originally, I had no [...]

09
Apr
APRICOTS AND APPLES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT

Imagine what it would have been like if this virus had hit 60 or 70 years ago. I could have said 70 or 80 years [...]

02
Apr
ADAM ADAMANT WILL LIVE!

In my last blog I started off by mentioning the situation we find ourselves in is like ‘a bad sci-fi movie, with no hero and [...]

26
Mar
THE SHOW MUST GO ON

At the moment it’s like we’re all in a bad sci-fi movie with no hero and no third act.  With mass closures, restricted movement and [...]

20
Mar
CONSPIRACY IS A WORD I SELDOM USE

I do have jokes about viruses, but I’m not going to tell you any, ‘cos I’m afraid you might spread them. Okay – sorry about, [...]

12
Mar
LOST IN PRODUCTION

This week is the Fisheye Film Festival. Most of you won’t have heard of it – it’s a relatively new festival that is open to [...]

05
Mar
ONE DAY THE REPS WILL RISE UP AGAIN

I was trying to figure out the other day, about the changing world of theatre and why it had come about.  What started me thinking [...]

27
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN (THE POSTSCRIPT)

Okay – this is not earth-shattering news and it’s certainly not new news, but it is essential news … the components that have to come [...]

18
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN – PART III

If you’ve ever thought of getting involved in producing, then please come and see me. Finding angels, backers, people prepared to invest is more difficult [...]

12
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN – PART II

Producing a theatrical production is totally different to producing a film or a TV show, but they all have one problem that’s exactly the same [...]

03
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN

In 2009 we did a production in Edinburgh of Bloodbath The Musical. Now eleven years later, thanks to a great friend of mine, Harry Rogers, [...]

29
Jan
ANGRY ARCHITECTURE

Last week I went back to Yorkshire.  It was the funeral of Barbara Bird, the mother of an old friend of ours – David Beckett, [...]

21
Jan
AT THE ALTAR OF NEW BELIEF

It seems fewer and fewer people are making New Year resolutions. All that business about I’m never going to have chips again, or I’m going [...]

15
Jan
PANTO TO JAMES BOND

Christmas used to be the time of year which, workwise, meant one thing – panto. Oh no it wasn’t … oh yes it was! This [...]

23
Dec
IF MUSIC BE THE … (COMPLETE THE SENTENCE)

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato Christmas used to be [...]

17
Dec
BLUEPRINTS ARE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

I’ve had some terrific reviews for my novel Beck Le Street, which I’m both grateful and thrilled about. After all you don’t write something with the [...]

10
Dec
SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF LIFE

I know I’m going to incur the wrath of many people with this blog.  But I’ve just got to say it. I was born and [...]

03
Dec
THE STORY IS GOD

It’s amazing, I can’t think of a time that I cared less about politics, except maybe before I reached puberty.  I’m just appalled at the [...]

26
Nov
F****** ENJOY IT!

I loved listening to Ian McKellen the other day on Good Morning Britain.  Deciding which news programme I watch or listen to in a morning [...]

22
Nov
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Christmas is certainly on its way. The TV ads are flooding onto our screens, the geese are getting fat and I’m doing a Christmas quiz [...]

19
Nov
FRONT STALLS IN THE CINEMA

Recently I watched a programme on Sky Arts called Discovering Gregory Peck.  It’s part of a series of hour-long profiles of various actors from Julia [...]

11
Nov
NEVER RECYCLE

I’m about a third of the way through a treatment. There’s no doubt about it, the older you get the harder it becomes – mainly [...]

05
Nov
Opening Salvo

Okay – this my first ever blog. Why should I suddenly start writing a blog I hear you muttering? Maybe I want my ego boosting, [...]

11
Oct
The Decline of the British Soap Opera

Anybody watching The Loudest Voice on Sky Atlantic with Russell Crow? It’s about the rise and fall of Roger Ailes who was responsible for setting [...]

09
Oct
No Need to Kill to Thrill

Equity – the actors union, demanded last week that bias against working class actors be made illegal. Not sure how that could possibly work. [...]

07
Oct
1.5% to 2.5%

I’m just in the process of starting work on a new commission. I am the least superstitious person in the world. I’ll deliberately walk under [...]

05
Oct
Writers Write

I know why I like writing so much, I can create my own world, which only mentions Brexit and climate change when I want it [...]

03
Oct
SEE MORE

BLOG

TALES FROM THE COP SHOP – PART 2

I know you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for this blog, so here it is – Tales From The Cop Shop – Part [...]

22
Apr
JESUS AND SANTA – THE DYNAMIC DUO

I know it’s a cliché, but the joy of Christmas seems, for a lot of people, to have been swallowed up by the commercialism of [...]

24
Dec
TO INDULGE OR NOT TO INDULGE (THAT IS THE CHOICE) feat TALZ FARADAY

I was going to post the second blog in the Tales From The Cop Shop series, but there was a government announcement last week that made me [...]

14
Dec
TALES FROM THE COP SHOP -PART 1

I was hoping my second novel EDGE OF CIVILISATION would be published in time for Christmas, but for various reasons, it’s now due out in [...]

03
Dec
THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE (OR AT LEAST SOME OF THEM)

At the school I went to, which resembled a foreboding Victorian prison, at the age of 14, you had to make the life affecting decision [...]

08
May
EVOLVE TO THE FUTURE

My last blog on the 12th December – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, I had intended being my last until the New Year, but [...]

28
Dec
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

We got our first Christmas card this year, appropriately enough, on 1st December from friends David and Kay Dunham.  Since then, there’s been a steady trickle of [...]

12
Dec
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

I was trying to think if there was ever a moment in my life when time actually stood still.  I couldn’t think of it.  I mention this [...]

30
Oct
BUGSY AND KRISTOFER.

Two things happened last week that at first didn’t seem in any way connected – but then I realised there was a connection and it [...]

11
Aug
THIS IS NOT PERSONAL SONNY, IT’S STRICTLY BUSINESS

The other day I was watching a documentary about Arthur Miller, the American playwright. For various reasons, I already knew quite a bit about him.  [...]

27
Jul
A BEGINNING IS A BEGINNING WHEN IT’S NOT THE END.

Probably the question I’m asked the most is – “How do I become a writer?” And of course, it’s impossible to answer. The second most [...]

09
Jul
NO VIRUS, NO PINA COLADA, NO PROBLEM.

Round about now, forty-five years ago, I was starting a summer season of plays at the Shanklin Theatre on the Isle of Wight. What a [...]

19
Jun
TAKE THE PLUNGE AND HOPE IT’S NOT THE SHALLOW END

I reckon the biggest question on everybody’s mind at the moment is – “What happens when this lockdown ends, and we get back to ‘normal?’” [...]

01
Jun
TANKED UP HIGH

Last week’s VE day celebrations didn’t quite go to plan in our house.  The only thing that happened how it should - and when it [...]

21
May
PROG JUNCTION

This week I watched the 1968 film Up The Junction. The original book on which the film was based was a collection of sort stories [...]

04
May
MAKE-BELIEVE MEETS CHUTZPAH

A few days ago we were meant to be disembarking from a cruise that would have taken us to a number of Scandinavian countries. But [...]

21
Apr
SNIDE AND PREJUDICE

I started this blog, mainly because the company that handle our PR, Puzzle Communications, thought it would be a good idea.  Originally, I had no [...]

09
Apr
APRICOTS AND APPLES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT

Imagine what it would have been like if this virus had hit 60 or 70 years ago. I could have said 70 or 80 years [...]

02
Apr
ADAM ADAMANT WILL LIVE!

In my last blog I started off by mentioning the situation we find ourselves in is like ‘a bad sci-fi movie, with no hero and [...]

26
Mar
THE SHOW MUST GO ON

At the moment it’s like we’re all in a bad sci-fi movie with no hero and no third act.  With mass closures, restricted movement and [...]

20
Mar
CONSPIRACY IS A WORD I SELDOM USE

I do have jokes about viruses, but I’m not going to tell you any, ‘cos I’m afraid you might spread them. Okay – sorry about, [...]

12
Mar
LOST IN PRODUCTION

This week is the Fisheye Film Festival. Most of you won’t have heard of it – it’s a relatively new festival that is open to [...]

05
Mar
ONE DAY THE REPS WILL RISE UP AGAIN

I was trying to figure out the other day, about the changing world of theatre and why it had come about.  What started me thinking [...]

27
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN (THE POSTSCRIPT)

Okay – this is not earth-shattering news and it’s certainly not new news, but it is essential news … the components that have to come [...]

18
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN – PART III

If you’ve ever thought of getting involved in producing, then please come and see me. Finding angels, backers, people prepared to invest is more difficult [...]

12
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN – PART II

Producing a theatrical production is totally different to producing a film or a TV show, but they all have one problem that’s exactly the same [...]

03
Feb
BLOODBATH REBORN

In 2009 we did a production in Edinburgh of Bloodbath The Musical. Now eleven years later, thanks to a great friend of mine, Harry Rogers, [...]

29
Jan
ANGRY ARCHITECTURE

Last week I went back to Yorkshire.  It was the funeral of Barbara Bird, the mother of an old friend of ours – David Beckett, [...]

21
Jan
AT THE ALTAR OF NEW BELIEF

It seems fewer and fewer people are making New Year resolutions. All that business about I’m never going to have chips again, or I’m going [...]

15
Jan
PANTO TO JAMES BOND

Christmas used to be the time of year which, workwise, meant one thing – panto. Oh no it wasn’t … oh yes it was! This [...]

23
Dec
IF MUSIC BE THE … (COMPLETE THE SENTENCE)

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato Christmas used to be [...]

17
Dec
BLUEPRINTS ARE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

I’ve had some terrific reviews for my novel Beck Le Street, which I’m both grateful and thrilled about. After all you don’t write something with the [...]

10
Dec
SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF LIFE

I know I’m going to incur the wrath of many people with this blog.  But I’ve just got to say it. I was born and [...]

03
Dec
THE STORY IS GOD

It’s amazing, I can’t think of a time that I cared less about politics, except maybe before I reached puberty.  I’m just appalled at the [...]

26
Nov
F****** ENJOY IT!

I loved listening to Ian McKellen the other day on Good Morning Britain.  Deciding which news programme I watch or listen to in a morning [...]

22
Nov
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Christmas is certainly on its way. The TV ads are flooding onto our screens, the geese are getting fat and I’m doing a Christmas quiz [...]

19
Nov
FRONT STALLS IN THE CINEMA

Recently I watched a programme on Sky Arts called Discovering Gregory Peck.  It’s part of a series of hour-long profiles of various actors from Julia [...]

11
Nov
NEVER RECYCLE

I’m about a third of the way through a treatment. There’s no doubt about it, the older you get the harder it becomes – mainly [...]

05
Nov
Opening Salvo

Okay – this my first ever blog. Why should I suddenly start writing a blog I hear you muttering? Maybe I want my ego boosting, [...]

11
Oct
The Decline of the British Soap Opera

Anybody watching The Loudest Voice on Sky Atlantic with Russell Crow? It’s about the rise and fall of Roger Ailes who was responsible for setting [...]

09
Oct
No Need to Kill to Thrill

Equity – the actors union, demanded last week that bias against working class actors be made illegal. Not sure how that could possibly work. [...]

07
Oct
1.5% to 2.5%

I’m just in the process of starting work on a new commission. I am the least superstitious person in the world. I’ll deliberately walk under [...]

05
Oct
Writers Write

I know why I like writing so much, I can create my own world, which only mentions Brexit and climate change when I want it [...]

03
Oct
SEE MORE

CONTACT TONY

    CONTACT TONY