M J Dees

As much a nostalgic romp through 70s, 80s and 90s England as it is a shocking and occasionally tragic comedy. Jim and Dave are twins growing up in the North of England. Jim is incredibly lucky, Dave astonishingly unlucky. Life seems to throw all it has at them, from surprisingly sharp toys to a psychotic wife. Can they survive the life-threatening challenges to find what they really seek. The Astonishing Anniversaries of James and David is as much a nostalgic romp through 70s, 80s and 90s England as it is a shocking and occasionally tragic comedy."Once I started, I had a hard time stopping.""I enjoyed the story very much, and I kept wondering what was coming next." "This would turn into a pretty good movie.""I love how the storytelling focuses on a view of their lives through the one day - their birthday."

The first three novellas in the Mastery of the Stars series. Join Sevan and his team as they suffer adventures around the glaxy in THE DOOMED PLANET, SHIPMENT TO DAPHNIS and ROCKET TO TRINCULO Finding himself suspended upside down from a burning tree above a pack of ravenous beasts was a bit of a surprise for Sevan. It had been one heck of a week. One minute he'd been struggling to meet his Corporation targets, the next he'd been promoted... And then he'd found himself on a stolen freighter with the Resistance, on their way to find the President of the system. But sometimes, stuff like that just happens... right? When he discovers that the President is really a ball of gas, and the Corporation is trying to destroy the presidential cruiser on which he's trapped, that's when he starts to lose his sense of humour. It couldn't possibly get worse ... or could it? If this book was the illegitimate offspring of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Star Wars, they would probably put it up for adoption. The Doomed Planet is the first novella in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series. On Sevan's first day as the Chief Council member, he causes a riot... ...his best friend is arrested... ....and then things go really wrong... Will Sevan be able to work out who is trying to destroy his home planet before it is too late? Shipment to Daphnis is the second novella in the light-hearted space opera series, Mastery of the Stars When Sevan's home planet is destroyed, he decides to track down and kill the perpetrator But in his efforts to enrol the help of the last assassins he loses his ship and then his friends. Can a ball of gas claiming to be the president's nephew provide the solution? Republic fighters have a different idea and Sevan finds himself in a flight for his life. Rocket to Trinculo is the third novella in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series.

Lost in the distant outreaches of space, Sevan and the team seek out the Hermit of Chaldene to help them find a way home but the journey ends up taking them to another universe.Will they survive being folded and squeezed through black and white holes left right and centre and what will they find on the other side?More to the point, how will they get back?And if they do, will they still have their marbles?The Hermit Of Chaldene is book nine in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series.