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Alif

Alif
Alif is a country quite unlike any you may have visited but a great deal like all of them. It is a land where the State runs the brothels, but where many liberties are proscribed. In this land, Ana takes up employment as a secretary in a State brothel, but finds out as much about herself as about the others who work there. She falls in love with Binta, a woman sentenced to serve in the brothel for the crimes of lesbianism and alcohol possession. Needless to say, the course of true love does not run smooth.

(1993-1994)

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The Anomaly Trilogy Vol. 1

The Battle for the Known Unknown
The Battle for the Known Unknown
Paul had never believed that he could qualify for passage aboard the Interplanetary Space Ship Intrepid on its mission across the Kuiper Belt to investigate the unknown entity known as the Anomaly that lies beyond the edge of the Solar System. Neither has anyone who has ever met him. 

But notwithstanding his evident unsuitability, Paul and his new wife Beatrice are passengers on a voyage beyond the solar ecliptic in the company of the ship's crew, the Solar System's most expert scientists and its bravest soldiers in one of the largest and most sophisticated space ships ever built.

(2010-2012)

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The Schemes of the Unknown Unknown
The Schemes of the Unknown Unknown
Surely this is exactly what Beatrice was always meant to be. She had in Paul a loving faithful husband. She had as many other lovers as she might desire. And most of all she was playing a crucial role in the Space Ship Intrepids quest for the Anomaly. How could it ever be better for her?  

But Beatrices moment of glory and the success of the Intrepids mission is under threat from shadowy and mysterious entities whose very existence has not even been suspected. In fact, so unknown are these threats that they are known not even to Beatrice. The quest to discover the truth about the Anomaly and the bizarre Apparitions that it has spawned is at risk from the schemes of unknown forces with immeasurable wealth, uncharted scientific knowledge and immense technological expertise.

Captain Kerensky loses all authority over the Space Ship Intrepid as it faces almost certain extermination. Great anonymous forces manoeuvre to both defend and sabotage the mission. And in all this, Mission Control remains only marginally less clueless about the threats to the mission than the crew and passengers of the Intrepid. And of all of them, none rivals Paul in his degree of ignorance regarding the schemes of the Unknown Unknown.

(2010-2013)

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Into the Unknowable
Into the Unknowable
The voyage of the Space Ship Intrepid is approaching its end. Will the nature of the Anomaly at last reveal itself? This is a question of paramount importance to Vashti and Beatrice, and in which there is no greater stake. For Captain Kerensky, the success of the mission is measured more by the well-being of the Intrepid's crew and passengers. Whereas Paul remains blissfully ignorant and unaware of almost everything around him and expects to play no greater part in the success of the mission than he already has.   

There are many obstacles between the Space Ship Intrepid and the resolution of its mission. There are many millions of kilometres to travel; an unknown space fleet waiting to sabotage the Intrepid's progress; and most of all the sheer difficulty of exploring an Unknowable entity. Not only can the Anomaly not be analysed from outside, there is no evidence that even a journey into its interior is likely to be useful or successful in any way at all. But notwithstanding such obstacles, the greatest forces in the Universe are determined to resolve the greatest problem ever known. And perhaps also eliminate the greatest threat to the Universe's survival.

(2010-2014)

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Crystal Passion

Crystal Passion
It is the 1990s and Crystal Passion and her band are on tour in America. In those days, they were nothing like as famous as they are now and nobody could guess how they might be received. Would this be the tour that broke them in America? Or would America break them?

Neither Crystal Passion nor her band were likely candidates to be the new Beatles or Rolling Stones of a fresh British Invasion. For a start, all members of the band were women. For another, the music they played wasnt really Rock or Pop or much like anything else out there. They didnt have the support of a large record label and they werent even especially well-known in the UK. But as Pebbles, the band's keyboard player, recounts even though the ultimately disastrous American tour was memorable for all the wrong reasons, Crystal Passion would eventually gain the posterity and fame that eluded them at the time.

(2015-2016)

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Degrees of Intimacy

Degrees of Intimacy
Eight characters, eight places, eight degrees of separation, and eight degrees of intimacy. This novella is inspired by the film La Ronde that similarly follows a circular trail of lovers, but this time in the twenty-first century and much more explicit in content. All eight chapters can be read in isolation, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

(2003-2005)

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Glade and Ivory

Glade and Ivory
This is the story of the shaman, Glade, and her apprentice, Ivory. It is the tale of two womens lives in Ice Age Europe and Africa. Glade is forced to abandon an idyllic childhood in the tropical forests and eventually becomes shaman of a tribe of Mammoth Hunters in the frozen north. Following the death of her parents, Ivory becomes apprenticed to the shaman and learns more about the world than shed ever believed possible.


Life in the Ice Age isnt easy. It isnt only due to the frozen climate in which Mammoths and Cave Lions thrive where humans struggle to survive. There are people from the Mammoth Hunters tribe and beyond who are keen to take advantage of a shaman from another land and an apprentice who is as yet innocent of the ways of the world. But through it all, Glade and Ivory are determined to succeed thanks to the shamans bitterly earnt knowledge of human custom and nature’s trials.

(2008-2013)

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No Future

No Future
This is a future history of England over the Twenty-First Century and into the next. It is a multi-threaded narrative that travels from place-to-place, succeeds from year-to-year, and passes from one person to another. England's green and pleasant land is visited by famine, plague, war and pestilence. Governments come and go. The ocean levels inexorably rise. International relations worsen. And the English people stumble through the chaos as best they can.

Alex makes a successful career in the media and stumbles through a trail of unsuccessful relationships. Iris endures a decade of authoritarian government. Lindiwe relies on the generosity of a nation made less kind. Tamara follows the Second Diaspora. Olive discovers that however hard she falls, there is still further to go. But however bad it gets, fortunes will still be made and power wielded by businessmen, politicians and aristocrats.

Who said there was No Future?

(2010-2013)

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Omega

OMEGA
Omega returns the adult reader to the world of childhood imagination: a world populated by the fantastic, the fabulous and the thoroughly improbable. But a world where adult concerns of poverty, injustice, prejudice, politics and economics are all too real. In this world, the reader is taken on a search for the Truth in a more literal sense than one would expect. On the way, the reader meets characters familiar to childhood who confront this question with different formulations and very different solutions.

(1993-1994)

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