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The Connickle Conundrum
The first instalment of The ABC Chronicles trilogy.
As a ten year year-old, he watched his mother die…
…eleven years on, he still blames himself.
It’s 1891 in the northwest of England. Innovations in clockwork and steam power are propelling the Industrial Revolution to new heights in engineering and technology.
Gilbert Sparks has finally settled into a job as a navigator on the ground-breaking, but controversial, Manchester Ship Canal project, but his violent reaction to a fellow worker’s jibes has put his future in jeopardy.
Now, forged in guilt, tempered by vengeance, he is plunged into a dark, unfamiliar word, battling for his life.
Clinging to the memories of his mother, will he face his demons alone?
Or will he draw on the passion and strength of his new found friends?
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The Brunswick Brawler
The thrilling second instalment of The ABC Chronicles.
After the events at Barton lock, attacks on infrastructure have ceased, but a new adversary has emerged. The Anthropocene’s political arm, the Freedom movement, with their grey-shirted thugs roaming the streets, now poses a more serious threat to the Connickle Laws and the Order.
With the need to expose their leader and discover the scientists’ hideout more important than ever, the High Mother’s desperate gamble to send the Stormriders on spying missions infiltrating Freedom rallies has so far proven unproductive.
Issy Windlass, as an activist in the fight for women’s suffrage, temperance and the environment, is frustrated more than most. So, when her estranged, hard-drinking brother barrels back into her life, she finds the moral high ground shifting beneath her feet.
And when she learns an uncomfortable truth, she faces the hardest decision of her life.
Will she forsake her principles or her family?
Meanwhile, in leafy Worsley, retired inventor Oscar McMurdo receives a visit from his good friend, Felix Faversham, that changes everything…
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The Avalon Artifice
The explosive conclusion of The ABC Chronicles trilogy.
It’s late December 1891 and deep beneath the hustle and bustle of Manchester’s streets, the Stormriders are lying low in the Temple following their failed raid on the Freedom Brigade meeting.
Fugitives from the law and targeted by the growing number of grey-shirts on the streets, the Order is no nearer to finding the Anthropocene leader.
Now, for the first time in her tenure as High Mother, Algeria senses doubt in her leadership. The time is fast-approaching when she must make an agonising choice. Drastic measures are necessary. Although the survival of the Order is in peril, she believes the price of failure is far greater.
Time is not her friend.
The race to save Mother Earth is on…
Meanwhile, the dowager countess of Weepingbrook Hall is dead. Brutally murdered. The only clues are a room full of shredded clothing, a dismembered mek and a mysterious burnt-out building.
Facing opposition from Freedom-sympathising colleagues, can detectives Ironstone and Slack uncover the countess’s callous killer?
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