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Books
New and Forthcoming
The Land of Somewhere Safe
Orphaned by the Blitz and evacuated from London, Peter and Lilly find themselves thrown together by circumstance with the four Bastable children—a jolly queer bunch indeed, who might well be far more than they seem. Who might well be a bunch of Scruffians on a Sekrit Mishun, innit, to take the Stamp, by way of an isle absurdly called Skye, to a magical mythical land where it will be safe from Nazi spies. Or not, as the case may be...
Susurrus on Mars
In the meadow of a stead just beyond the town-state Erehwyna on the banks of the Rio Erehwyreve that winds and flows into the Hellas Sea on a long-terraformed Mars, striplings Jaq and Puk flirt and frolic and fuck, of course, amid the flower-boys and tree-girls of an Arcadia remade—Hyakinthos and Daphne, Ampelos and Dryope, all the lovers and beloved of sweet Susurrus, Martian godling of the breeze. Where pataphysics meets Linnaean botany meets Greek myth, there is no utopia, they say, but there is always idyll. Always.
Novels
Testament
What you have been taught, lover of the sublime, is a lie that made you live a lie...
In the 21st century, a scalpel slices bible pages, passages spliced to restore lost truth. In the days of King Herod, the messias
rises, calling to black sheep: walk with me. Now, here, between two aeons and across Æternity, a beloved student rebuilds his Gospel for the era of Anonymous: anarchist, socialist, atheist, revolutionary.
Forget the tale you were spun and open your ears to the teacher who said, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. From the Hebridean fishing village of Capernaum, to a Jerusalem under Il Duce Pontius Pilate...
The Empire ends today.
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The Book of All Hours
It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply.
Here there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day, and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the world. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which. Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own skins, their own souls, but sometimes... just sometimes... sacrificing everything in the name of humanity.
Novellas, Chapbooks & Collections
Pastoral eclogues on a far-future terraformed Mars. Passion, pataphysics and plant PoVs.
Four cubist fantasies set in the furthest reaches of the worldscape of The Book of All Hours.
A hitman, a hooker, a hobo and a homo, in the ultimate prison break... Escape from Hell!
Queer fictions of pirate gods, trapped fairies, queer werewolves, gambling angels and more.
A guidebook for readers and explorers of cities marvellous and monstrous, imaginary and real.
Dark fantasies of erocide detectives, dead baby couriers, rationalist vampires and worse.
