CollectiveIdiocracy
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“Was there water?” Ambrose asks.
“It is the desert, Ambrose” Paddy says gently and he is supposed to be the mad one, the one who has to be gentled down from delusion and insanity like a child, not Ambrose, never Ambrose “There was no water around for miles”
Of all the things to be asking after…
“It rained” Paddy says at last, “Monsoon rain, biblical, washed away the landscape entire. By the time I had a mind to go and look for him again everything had changed and there was no way to find him. I did look. I did look for him. I swear it”
Paddy looks up to find Ambrose smiling a private smile and nodding like he’s hearing voices Paddy can not.
"Rain might just be enough" Ambrose says, seeming pleased with the answer "Rain and the saltwater of tears”Or: Eoin comes back.
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13 Nov 2025
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Bill Fraser has been Paddy Mayne’s sous chef for almost a decade, suffering his violent temper and chaotic leadership, all for a shot at getting a Michelin star. When pastry chef Augustin Jordan arrives, the star is finally within their grasp, but as well as the potential for success, Augustin’s presence stirs up long buried feelings for Bill and Paddy.
When emotions flare in the heat of the kitchen, what has remained unsaid for years, bubbles to the surface.
Can Paddy and Bill find a future together, or are they heading towards disaster?
SAS: Rogue Heroes meets The Bear, in an epic slowish burn, simmering with spice.
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- Part 1 of The Ivy
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06 Oct 2025
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You book a writing retreat in the in-law suite of a countryside manor. The solitude is perfect except for the groundskeeper. Ollie’s gruff silences and storm-bright eyes become the only distraction you can’t write away. What starts with chatter and biscuits breaks open in the rain and ends in his bed.
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23 Sep 2025
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North Africa, 1941. You’re an intel officer for the British Army Stationed in the middle of the desert. He’s a reckless bastard with a death wish. The only thing more dangerous than Paddy Mayne is what happens when you finally say yes.
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23 Sep 2025
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"Tell me about your fellah.”
“He’s not ‘my fellah’.”
“Tell me about him all the same.”
A slightly different version of the story, told through the eyes of a Welsh commando who once played rugby with Paddy Mayne and once drank gin on a rooftop with Eoin McGonigal.
And while a modicum of historical research was put into this story—as with the show—this is NOT a history lesson.Bookmarked by CollectiveIdiocracy
16 Sep 2025