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Dream-Children



Dream-Children - is a fast moving plot led psychological thriller. It describes the world through the eyes of a young journalist in a fictitious generic country forced to report on a war that has been engineered thousands of miles away by ambitious businessmen and women. It examines the relationship between government business and
This novel contains original philosophy that is brought into the mind of the reader through the eyes of the journalist who views each atrocity in a surreal fugue.
The novel is serious, fast moving and in parts humorous in the way of satire.
Due to be completed in August 2009.

PicaresQue is a thriller set amidst the turbulent political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth century.

           In the wake of the turmoil created by The Massacre In Paris when the protestant Huguenots of France were executed, there existed a background of fear in England that the Catholic minority would take control. The plot of PicaresQue is based on the actual events that led to the trial and execution of Francis Throckmorton, who plotted to murder Queen Elizabeth I and uses the background from The Massacre In Paris a play by the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. The story is told through the eyes of a fictitious Spanish street urchin, Vinicio, who is adopted by the Ambassador of Spain and used as a disposable messenger.