My latest novel, The Last Bature has now been published and is available from the same online bookshops listed below.
29th June 2008
My new work is almost ready for publication, the new title being "The Last Bature" (pronounced "batuuree" - meaning "white man/European/Government officer").
Synopsis: The Last Bature is a policeman’s story set in Nibana, an imaginary West African state, shortly after gaining its independence from the British in 1962.
What begins as a straightforward investigation by the last British policeman in the Northern Region and an African police inspector, quickly turns to intrigue when the intelligence services of the superpowers vie with each other to secure a breakthrough in weapons technology. Combine this with the machinations of an irrational regional military governor hell-bent on overthrowing his brother, the head of state, and the basis for an exciting story emerges. With the cold war as a backdrop and a second coup imminent, the action moves quickly from the heat of the Omdu Hills, through the stench of the Laguna slums to the waters of the Bight of Laguna, giving the reader an insight into the grubby world of espionage and life in West Africa during the turbulent sixties.
24th March 2008
I am currently working on a new fictional story about Nibana, title to be determined.
11th January 2008
You can now purchase Tribal Gathering from Authors Online, where it is also available as an e-book. It is also available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, Tesco, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell and Waterstones. For a synopsis, see my "Works to Date".
26th December 2007
Tribal Gathering is now up for release in January 2008.
23rd September 2007
Tribal Gathering is almost ready and I hope to have them published by the end of 2007.
1st January 2007
At present I am now working on a book of short stories about Africa entitled Tribal Gathering and I hope to have them ready for publication by mid-2007.
18th March 2006
My book was officially released on 27th February 2006 and is currently available on the Publish America website in their bookstore, and also from the following retailers:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
Blackwell
Tesco
Waterstones
"In April 1967, a young British engineer arrives in Nigeria to take up his new job. The country is seven years into a volatile independence and Ken Ryeland struggles to come to terms with the culture shock and the endemic tribalism that pervades every level of society. On being transferred to Enugu, capital of the troubled Eastern Region, he is further challenged when the Regional Military Government rebels against the Federal Military Government in Lagos. An act of secession quickly follows and the short-lived Republic of Biafra is born. Almost immediately the new republic is plunged into a bloody and bitter war of survival with the Lagos Government and Ryeland finds himself trapped in the rebel enclave as Federal troops close in for the kill."
The Up-Country Man is a personal account of the events leading to secession and the conditions inside Biafra during the early days of the Nigerian civil war.
