The world never recovered from the pandemics.More than ten years after civilisation fractured, Britain stands isolated behind heavily armed borders while the rest of the world struggles through economic collapse, political upheaval, and recurring outbreaks of disease.Barry Saint-Albans serves on the front line of Britain's Border Protection Agency. His duty is to protect the nation's shores and enforce its uncompromising immigration laws. But when a deadly confrontation lea...

The storm begins with the ringing of church bells.Cast back into the living world from the void between life and death, Wanda returns carrying the soul of a Nazi war criminal. Once consumed by hatred, she is now little more than a pawn in the hands of Didiubas, an ancient demon of chaos who craves vengeance against the woman who defeated him.That woman is Ankerita Leighton.Born in Tudor England and preserved for centuries by a witch's enchanted potion, Ankerita exist...

During the course of any writer's descent into obscurity, many submissions are made to publishers and competitions. Usually these get rejected or ignored and are consigned to the scrap heap. With the number of writers seemingly exceeding the number of readers and the explosion of 'blogs' on the net that nobody has time to read, items such as these will never see the light of day, until they are published posthumously and the publishing public realise that:a: the writer was a genius

A trilogy of spooky tales for the eco-worldFar away from the commotion and clamour of the capital is an island steeped in myth and magic. Stefan Sorensen is lucky to live there and shares a house with his parents and two recently fostered children from the city, Freya and Lars.Emboldened by his new companions, Stefan takes them into a mysterious forest, firstly disturbing a coven of witches who mistake them for dinner, then enraging the woodland guardians, and finally into ...

Ancient Aliens, the Greek gods and Ancient Man meet in an epic confrontation that spells the end of a world, six thousand years ago."The strangers came, and they were not like us. Something else, but wearing the skins of men, the eyes of men, their hands..."Ishur Ninku, writing in Sumer, Mesopotamia, C4000 BCEOn a planet at the far side of the sun, Anthea, cast out of an isolated colony of refugees from the old world, shelters from a firestorm of meteorites falling i...

There are laws older than galaxies.There are powers beyond comprehension.And then there is Tom.Dragged into an interdimensional conspiracy by a woman with suspiciously perfect hair, Tom learns that the "organisation responsible for all the troubles in the galaxy" is both more terrifying and significantly more bureaucratic than advertised.He is not the chosen one.He is the chosen one's expendable plus-one.As the Cyclic Imperative tightens its m...

Swallows and Amazons meets The Famous Five for the 21st Century.Springtime: Terry and Paul are looking forward to getting their beloved dinghy, Orinoco, back on the water. Perhaps, this year, they can concentrate on sailing without running across criminal gangs or having another adventure searching for treasure.Unfortunately, the criminals they uncovered have other ideas. As witnesses, the boys and their older siblings, BJ and Graham, are a possible link to putting them beh...

Two boys meet for the first time as they try to buy a wrecked dinghy from a mysterious old man. He agrees to sell it to them both, and an uneasy alliance is formed, softened when they discover that they have a mutual favourite, the book, Swallows and Amazons. It seems the old man is a fan too.Upon first inspection of their new prize, the boys discover a simple map, with a single X on it. The family joins in, and they realise that it is the outline of the estuary where they are plann...

Marooned on a remote outpost in the Greek archipelago, BJ, Graham, Paul and Terry think they are safe from the criminal syndicate they helped to expose in their previous adventure. It is not long, however, before a chance find of a thumb drive throws them into another mystery, and triggers a chain of events that puts their lives in mortal danger.Who is the ever-present Cigarette-Smoking-Man, what data can possibly be on the drive that is so important to desperate men, and who is se...

In Tudor times, Ankerita killed her husband for abusing her, and his family walled her up in an anchorite cell for the rest of her life. Not content with that, they eventually gave her a poison which paralyzed her, and then buried her alive.Her soul remained suspended between this life and the next for centuries, gradually developing in power and determination to escape, until a couple of young villains come to deface the ruin where she is buried. One of them, unknown, to him, is ps...

A lusty romp through everything wrong with business and life today. Adults only, and only those not easily offended... and managers everywhere.Just when he thought he was dead and could have some time off, Tom Two-Dan $mith (sic) is catapulted into leading a business in a chaotic world where bureaucracy and process have taken over from all logic and good sense. Everything seems to perpetuate an organisational structure, but nobody knows what his company actually does. Tom's challeng...

The savagely satirical fifth venture into the chaotic universes of Two-Dan $mith (sic).When Tom's non-payment of a parking fine coincides with the breeding season of his security forces and the rise of a vehicle storage junta, he is forced into life as a fugitive.Accompanied in a converted cruise ship by erstwhile private detective and ale-slinger, the Magus, a techie, and a pair of renegade barbarians, he sets about kicking back against extortionate car parking charges, th...