The Dark Side of Mars

Our past, present and future begins over a thousand years into the future in an alternative universe where humanity have just started to flourish on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Having harnessed the power of nanotechnology and combining it with arc reactor technology, humanity no longer age and managed to increase their population to the hundreds of thousands.

Arthur, Earth’s prodigy Captain must lead his team to the moon and prepare Earth’s first colony class spaceship, for the evacuation of Earth.

What starts as a basic mission, soon turns into an edge of your seat adventure into the unknown. Arthur will be forced to step up and save his people or let another take his place. Hope can come from the darkest of places, sometimes its mysterious and from an unknown source. Something is waiting on the Columbus, whether good or bad depends on how humanity decides to treat them.

The Ancient Astronauts are shaping into familiar figures of our past as they journey unknowingly towards our timeline.

The Diary of a Boy

A boy finds himself a survivor after a traumatic, mysterious event occurs all over the world. Without any kind of communication, he has to resort to new ways of coping.

He writes his thoughts in a two-year diary as he tries to come to terms with the events happening to him. He goes on a road trip to find other members of his family and meets many exciting, frightening and dramatic events on the way.

He has to learn new skills and adapt to the new way of living.

Does he cope? Does he find others like him? Does he reach his family? Does he survive?

The Elder Tales

Maddie Scribble is a young girl with a problem: her best friend has disappeared without a trace, and no one else has even noticed. The worst part is that the only person that can help her is the one person that wants absolutely nothing to do with her, her older sister Lyla.

Meanwhile, fairy tale creatures and other mythological beings that really shouldn’t exist have started showing up everywhere and attacking people. Now it seems that the only hope the city has is a fairy that has lost her magic, a goblin with no concept of personal hygiene and two young sisters that can’t stand to be in the same room together. 

The Elements - I

‘TWIZ!’ she yelled. ‘I thought I told you to remember your training!’

‘But I don’t want to!’ cried Twiz. ‘It brings back bad memories!’

‘Yes, but it might just save the lives of the four mortals we have with us!’ Andromeda yelled. The whole hovercraft lurched forward.

Join Gwen, Rico, Sky and Harvey on their quest to become modern-day elements with powers of fire, water, air and earth. On their way, they will meet epic deities and fun assistants. They will also learn the inside truth about life as heroes.

But someone wants to stop them. The element that no one wants to talk about. Ice. Will he be their downfall? Or will The Elements be able to stop him wreaking havoc?

Four new heroes. Two powerful immortals. One evil genius. Oh, and a child actress, called Bethany, who might just make the biggest mistake of her life…

What could possibly go wrong?

The Escape

The start of our story begins in a place called Rebellion, found after the journey through the rough and troubled path of a teenager's mind. Fights. Parties. Supernatural appearances? Remel Brathwaite grows to be knowledgeable in almost each one of these fields and he's paved a way in which he can find no joy or success. Certainly, it seems as if he is journeying to a set end on a path with no alternative choices. Until one day... There is the appearance of a metaphorical light that calls him to do something meaningful; something that means more than the life that he lives within the inescapable pit which he has let himself fall into. Yet it seems, in line with all reason, that he has gone mad. Can this be a reality? Whilst his past-life disappears behind him, Remel is allowing himself to follow the words of a mystical stranger named 'King Keys' for the sake of change and revolution.

The Figment Wars: Search for the Caretaker

Thomas and Isaac Llewellyn are having a terrible first day back at school and they haven’t even had their first lesson!

A dangerous enemy has resurfaced. They are miles away from their cousin, Emily, the only person who will believe them. They are cut off from their allies in the Realm of Imagination. Can they stop Torvik on their own? Who is it that conspires against them from behind the scenes?

Thomas, Emily and Isaac may be the only humans to ever have visited the Realm of Imagination, but they are not the only ones who know about it.

The Figment Wars: Shadows of the Worst

Thomas Llewellyn and his cousin Emily have returned to the Realm of Imagination, at the express invitation of Belactacus and the Council of Reality. They have been tasked with finding and defeating a dangerous and powerful young man, a human, just like them. Left to his own devices, he could devastate the world of the Figments. Thomas and Emily must master the powers they discovered on their first visit and use them to stop Magnus.

It seems, however, that the Realm of Imagination is not the same place they remember. Some consider the humans to be most unwelcome, and once again, there are things that Thomas and Emily are not being told. Can they find Magnus and bring him back to the human world? Can they trust the very people they have come to help? The Figment Wars have raged on since the beginning. Now it is time for them to end, one way or another.

The Figment Wars: Through the Portals

There are two worlds, or realms if you will. There is the Realm of Reality, or the Human World, and there is the Realm of Imagination, populated by figments of our imagination. Bizarre animals, Imaginary Friends, Heroes and most unfortunately, the vile and loathsome Monsters we conjure up in our minds when we're most frightened.
Thomas Llewellyn doesn't know anything about this other world; neither does his brat of a little brother, Isaac nor their young cousin, Emily. They soon come to learn about the existence of this strange world when they are suddenly and violently pulled from their own by a turbulent vortex. Faced with having to prove just what they are, they must try to find a way home while all the while, someone plots to keep the human children where they are so that they can be used for a terrible purpose.

The Forest of Tūkino

The Forest of Tūkino follows the stories of four different creatures who are each experiencing a different aspect of domestic violence. This story is told in a way which evokes emotion, so that readers can understand what it can feel like to be stuck in a cycle of abuse.

Providing insight to some and hope for others, The Forest of Tūkino takes readers on a journey into the darkness and back out into the light again.

The Gate

Morwenna is a teenage girl who loves horse riding. One day she is out with her horse Sorrel, when suddenly she loses control of the horse and is thrown to the ground. Lying there, injured, she is found by strangers who offer to look after her. But what are their intentions and what danger may lie ahead? In this unknown terrain she chooses to trust these strangers for her own safety. However, she cannot help but begin to question herself and the identities of these strangers. She is worried about what is happening around her: there is a battle being fought! Will she ever enjoy her life, see her family again and be able to meet her friends? Will she have a future? Will anyone ever believe her story? During this journey Morwenna discovers her own strengths and weaknesses, as in the midst of her fears and these strange events she learns to keep a positive heart.

The Ghost of Pendlesham Priory

“I am a spirit reaching out to you to tell you my story so that I can find rest. Help me.”

The spirit is Isabel Calthorpe who speaks out from Tudor times to Ben, nicknamed the ‘Digger’, and his cousin, Filly. Ben is the first to be touched by her story as he wanders the countryside of Suffolk and meets her ghost in the ruins of a deserted convent. She explains that she had been sent there by her widowed father to be given the education of a fine lady. Life however was far from genteel because her fellow pupils were spiteful bullies. The gentle nuns tried to endure the tensions of a visit from the malicious servants of Henry VIII who planned to destroy their lives, but Isabel’s dreams vanished in flames.

Yet the modern-day characters, whose lives have been touched by the ruins, open up to new horizons. The thrilling ending of this story links past and present, showing how Ben has lived in two worlds.

The Glimmering Isle

Rusty isn’t like the other creatures, and they don’t let him forget it.

Mocked and mistreated he longs for adventure, but when his wish is fulfilled, he soon realises it’s nothing like he imagined. When his parents are mysteriously kidnapped during a freak summer storm, he’s forced to leave everything he’s ever known to find them. Along the way he uncovers secrets about their past and is dragged into a distant conflict that could have consequences for the whole of the Oakenwood.

A tale about fitting in, the value of friends and the secrets of everyday people, The Glimmering Isle is the first book in the Oakenwood series.