Facelift
Out Now
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Bodyswitch
Coming Soon
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An Angel On My Shoulder
Coming Soon
(no publishing deal yet, cover mock-up)
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Below are some synopses of current novels and TV works just completed. Click on the links to read opening chapters or scenes. Face Lift and Bodyswitch are thrillers with both scientific and metaphysical over and undertones.

An Angel On My Shoulder is based on real life experiences and uses the adventure-thriller genre to tell a story that is ongoing as we speak. Somewhere in the world is the new Messiah, Mahdi or Supreme Being who cannot read or write but who is coming to power now. This person will transform the human race, the planet, scientific thought, the environment and all known religions and beliefs.

I'm looking for a publisher not frightened by controversy.

 
Face Lift ...
Bodyswitch ...
An Angel On My Shoulder ...
Kingdoms Of Time And Space ...
The Forest ...
 
Face Lift
 
 
Facelift

Ella Fallon and Ed Leeming are lovers. Both are ugly and deformed and have been tormented at college by Scott Stockton, the handsome, hedonistic and vicious heir to an industrial fortune.

But then they are transformed by futuristic body remodelling techniques into stunningly beautiful people - front cover looks and talent to boot. Ed is remade into an identical double of Stockton, the man he hates.

All they want is revenge on the man who made their lives a wretched misery. Stockton inherits the family company whose latest development is the so-called 'immortality' drug, Genocel.

Now there is only one game worth playing. To erase Scott Stockton and steal his entire life and fortune - and then to live forever.

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Bodyswitch
 
 
Body SwitchShoulder

Jack and Kerry Madigan are a young and radical couple living in New York. He runs the Refuge - a home for down and outs in the Bronx; she works for a left wing newspaper. Jack has many helpers, including the strange and prophet-like Abraham, who seems timeless with no past and no future.

Ernie Mason, a black, mean street warrior, is released from prison, back into the Bronx where he had a deadly reputation. Ostracised by his own kind, he goes joyriding and runs down Kerry Madigan, killing them both. Jack is distraught until Abraham makes him an offer he cannot refuse - the chance to say goodbye to Kerry one last time in the spirit world. But there is a price to pay. Some other recently departed soul must be allowed to occupy his body in an attempt at redemption. That someone turns out to be Ernie Mason, who dies black and is reborn as a white dude everybody loves named Jack Madigan...

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An Angel On My Shoulder
 
 
An Angel On My Shoulder

‘An Angel On My Shoulder’ is a high-octane spiritual adventure that charts the astonishing story of Paul, an ordinary man with an ordinary family who is contacted by angels and told that he has been chosen to play a part in the next spiritual phase of human development.

His mission is to transcribe the words of the new 'Messiah', 'Mahdi' - or the new 'Light Of The World' - an avatar who is alive on Earth today but who cannot read or write – and produce a new ‘holy’ book for the world...

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Kingdoms Of Time And Space - children's trilogy
 
 

The Trilogy: Kingdom of the Nanosaurs, Kingdom By Storm, Kingdom To Come. Morgan Lane is no ordinary 15-year old. He possesses the most extraordinary, remarkable but unpredictable ultra photographic memory.

When all the animals in the world vanish except the Lane family's pet orang utan Winston, who is turned into a genius with the power of speech; when a scientist creates replacement creatures, or Nanosaurs, using nanotechnology; when the Guardians of the Earth reveal themselves to save humanity from the spirit eating Shades; Morgan, tomboy friend Angel and Winston set out on a three book odyssey to save the planet and bring the real animals back...

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The Forest - UK TV
 
 

Jack Dancer was a high flying media star until he fell foul of a conspiracy to disgrace him. His wife, Meg, anxious for a change of life to save her marriage, suggests they leave London for good with their two children, Liam and Millie.

Jack buys a rundown local newspaper, ‘The Voice’, in the Forest of Dean (a backwater that time has forgotten), and a tumbledown mansion tucked away in the middle of the forest. They don’t realise the house holds a secret that will bedevil them. Liam and Millie are predictably unimpressed, especially when they can’t get a signal on their cell phones. And when Meg is attracted to the charismatic drop-out Fergus, a strange cast of characters begin to bring chaos to their formerly comfortable lives and sparks fly...

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