The news that Professor Marcus Deighton has developed a technique to bring the dead back to life – a process known as rejuvenation – is immediately met by hysteria within the media and a polarisation in society between the overwhelming majority who welcome it and a negligible minority who do not.
One of the opponents is Deighton’s daughter Helen, and another the Reverend Mouland, both of whom join forces with a small protest group ironically called Man Against Doctors (MAD) which is led by unhinged fanatic Mary Fields.
Reverend Mouland’s despair at the total secularisation of society is deepened when his church is sold for the storage of bodies awaiting rejuvenation, whilst Professor Deighton is unable to see anything but benefit for mankind and becomes egotistical about the great plaudits his discovery brings him.
Following on from the failure of MAD to have any influence over people ever more devoid of meaningful concern because life can last forever, an attack on Deighton’s now estranged daughter finally alters the course of the whole rejuvenation project in a way that no one could ever have imagined.
ISBN: 9781852001704
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: Hardback
Length: 262pp
The news that Professor Marcus Deighton has developed a technique to bring the dead back to life – a process known as rejuvenation – is immediately met by hysteria within the media and a polarisation in society between the overwhelming majority who welcome it and a negligible minority who do not.
One of the opponents is Deighton’s daughter Helen, and another the Reverend Mouland, both of whom join forces with a small protest group ironically called Man Against Doctors (MAD) which is led by unhinged fanatic Mary Fields.
Reverend Mouland’s despair at the total secularisation of society is deepened when his church is sold for the storage of bodies awaiting rejuvenation, whilst Professor Deighton is unable to see anything but benefit for mankind and becomes egotistical about the great plaudits his discovery brings him.
Following on from the failure of MAD to have any influence over people ever more devoid of meaningful concern because life can last forever, an attack on Deighton’s now estranged daughter finally alters the course of the whole rejuvenation project in a way that no one could ever have imagined.
ISBN: 9781852001704
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: Hardback
Length: 262pp
Having had a range of employment from taxi-driver to teacher, Sharon Starr currently works in administration. She has a BA(Hons) degree in Combined Arts (English, History and Politics) and is also a qualified radiographer. At present she is studying Russian history, culture and language.
The news that Professor Marcus Deighton has developed a technique to bring the dead back to life – a process known as rejuvenation – is immediately met by hysteria within the media and a polarisation in society between the overwhelming majority who welcome it and a negligible minority who do not.
One of the opponents is Deighton’s daughter Helen, and another the Reverend Mouland, both of whom join forces with a small protest group ironically called Man Against Doctors (MAD) which is led by unhinged fanatic Mary Fields.
Reverend Mouland’s despair at the total secularisation of society is deepened when his church is sold for the storage of bodies awaiting rejuvenation, whilst Professor Deighton is unable to see anything but benefit for mankind and becomes egotistical about the great plaudits his discovery brings him.
Following on from the failure of MAD to have any influence over people ever more devoid of meaningful concern because life can last forever, an attack on Deighton’s now estranged daughter finally alters the course of the whole rejuvenation project in a way that no one could ever have imagined.
ISBN: 9781852001704
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: Hardback
Length: 262pp
Strange vibrations and an eerie light in the sky wake Mike Hunt one night during his walking and camping tour of south-west Scotland. His immediate investigation of this unusual phenomena produces no explanation.
Locals in the village pub seem to know something about the disturbances but are unwilling to divulge anything. However, he is sent to a nearby cottage, where he meets Bernadette, a so-called white witch, to whom he is immediately attracted. She has a prot égé in the form of a small, precocious young girl named Teeny.
Their combined experiences lead them to Glentrool Grange, home of an animal photographer and his middle-aged raunchy wife, together with her male artist ‘friend’ and his female secretary.
Further bizarre nocturnal occurrences are witnessed at an old kirk in the Grange’s grounds, with the suspicion being that the phenomena are by-products of visits by interlopers from either the spirit world or some other space/time continuum.
Eventually the occupants of Glentrool Grange are forced into a situation of immense danger, where they find out more behind the hideous purpose of the appearances of these interlopers – or they think they do.
ISBN: 9781852001117
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 193pp
These are tales dealing with various inexplicable, bizarre and supernatural happenings in localities around the author ’s home town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
Whilst the names of specific locations and the people involved have been changed to preserve their anonymity, many will no doubt recognise the settings in the area.
The tales involve a number of manifestations of the occult; including various hauntings, a ghostly painting, werewolves, wild children, witch hunts and their pitiful victims.
Tales of terror, malignancy and revenge, of fearful happenings, sometimes grotesque and quite incredible are written about here in Denys Sissons’ inimitable way. There are references to gallows and ley-lines, and cases where everything seems so plausible yet frightening that a frisson of horrifying fear is left behind in the mind of the reader.
ISBN: 9781852001094
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 184pp
In this extremely original and creative story we share the present world of successful author Myra Vilas, a beautiful and confident woman with a baby daughter, but a dreadful secret, as she becomes inextricably linked with her latest novel; an account of a dystopian future set in the 24th century.Readers are quickly enticed from the present time into the future as the chapters of Myra’s manuscript are unveiled and her words unfold a disturbing story that keeps us guessing.
Meanwhile the narrative of Myra’s own life is revealed and we become aware that she is dealing with loss and post-natal depression, unable to open to anyone but her closest friend, despite her outward assertiveness.
As her manuscript evolves we find that the fictional future Myra is creating contains an enigmatic portrayal of characters from her actual world, with names being anagrams or puns of their real-world counterparts, but their stories darkly different.
A Parallel Life becomes a broodingly and deeply psychological account of a woman who is beset with a traumatic and emotional past that culminates in the most extreme despair life can offer.
ISBN: 9781852001940
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 200pp