The Tube Riders Series
The Tube Riders: Underground (The Tube Riders Trilogy #1)
Marta Banks is a girl with an identity. She is a Tube Rider, a girl who risks death every day in the abandoned underground stations of London.
It doesn’t matter that her parents are dead. It doesn’t matter that her beloved brother has disappeared. It doesn’t matter that in the dystopian chaos of London in 2075, in the shadow of the towering perimeter walls, she has no future.
She has her friends.
Together, the Tube Riders are a family, united against the brutality of their lives, but when they discover a dark government secret that could bring war to Britain and end decades of oppression, everything they hold dear is threatened.
Now they are running for their lives, hunted by genetically engineered killing machines that will stop at nothing to catch them.
The Huntsmen are coming….
The Tube Riders: Exile (The Tube Riders Trilogy #2)
Having narrowly escaped the Governor's savage Huntsmen, Marta Banks and the other surviving Tube Riders are on the run in northern France. Trapped inside a government-assigned quarantine zone, they search for a way out of a bleak countryside littered with abandoned worker robots and haunted by sinister monks, while at the same time a far deadlier threat than any they have faced before is searching for a way in ...
From the towering spires of Mont St Michel through the dark horrors of the Paris Catacombs to the treacherous peaks of the French Alps, The Tube Riders: Exile is an epic continuation of Chris Ward's Tube Riders series.
The Tube Riders: Revenge (The Tube Riders Trilogy #3)
Live together, die together …
Three years after the end of The Tube Riders: Exile, the Governor is preparing for war with Europe. Within Mega Britain’s
cities, pockets of rebels fight and die in the name of Marta Banks, brave leader of the surviving Tube Riders.
The Tube Riders themselves though, have disappeared. With their trail gone cold, the Governor and his deadly Huntsmen have no way to find them.
That is, until the day the Governor recovers a long lost treasure from his past, an ancient artifact that could crush the rebellion for good.
Marta Banks is about to lose everything.
The Tube Riders: In the Shadow of London (The Tube Riders #4)
There’s gone and then there’s London-gone ….
Marta Banks and her Tube Riders may have fled, but they left behind a city on the brink of collapse. In the violent wasteland of London Greater Urban Area, former Tube Rider David Silverwood tries to reunite the old members of the gang to make one last stand against the government. In his way is Dreggo, once a member of a rival gang but now the Governor’s right hand, and Lindon, a member of the criminal stronghold known as the Tank, who is struggling with issues of loyalty towards revolution, the people protected by his organisation, and his dying girlfriend, Cah.
Revisiting London in the period between Tube Riders: Exile and Tube Riders: Revenge, In the Shadow of London is a stunning addition to Chris Ward’s Tube Riders series.
In 2075, Maxim Cale is a semi-mythical figure, the rarely seen Governor of a transformed Britain. In the countryside, a regressed agri-society fuels the country, while within the walled cities, chaos and disorder reign as people battle daily for their lives. From the wealthy landowners of the farming states to the street kids fighting for survival, however, one thing is shared: a terror of their longtime leader.
His will is iron, his powers legendary, his punishment merciless.
But 130 years before, he was an innocent little boy playing in the Algerian sand. Taken from his family, in the freezing hell of Siberia he became a monster.
And the world would never be the same.
This is his story.
His will is iron, his powers legendary, his punishment merciless.
But 130 years before, he was an innocent little boy playing in the Algerian sand. Taken from his family, in the freezing hell of Siberia he became a monster.
And the world would never be the same.
This is his story.
The Tube Riders Complete Series Boxed Set
The Tube Riders (The Tube Riders #1)
The Tube Riders: Exile (The Tube Riders #2)
The Tube Riders: Revenge (The Tube Riders #3)
The Tube Riders: In the Shadow of London (The Tube Riders #4)
PLUS: The Tube Riders short stories:
Tube Riders
Fallen from the Train
Going Underground
How Jessica Met Simon
AND an interview with the author
The Tales of Crow Series
The Eyes in the Dark (Tales of Crow #1)
For Jun Matsumoto, a school trip to the remote study camp of British Heights is hardly his idea of a good time. Akane, the love of his life, hates him, and he’s rooming with Ogiwara, the school bully.
Things get even worse when a dose of bad Christmas turkey makes most of the students sick, and suddenly Jun and a handful of others are left cut off from civilization as the snow closes in. Pretty soon the power has gone off, and a strange, birdlike creature begins terrorizing the guests.
If Jun thought the school trip could get no worse, he’d be wrong. As the students group together with the other remaining guests, suddenly their understanding of danger turns on its head.
There are creatures out in the woods, and they’re hungry for human flesh…
The Castle of Nightmares (Tales of Crow #2)
A group of stranded tourists, a missing billionaire, and a dead woman in the woods, killed by some kind of giant bird. As lights blink on and off in the seemingly deserted Heigel Castle, it appears that Professor Crow is back ...
Seven years after the tragic events at British Heights, Jun Matsumoto is now lead singer for Plastic Black Butterfly as they tour across Europe. Their shows bring them to the quiet Romanian town of Heigel, where a series of brutal animal killings have been followed up by the murder of an old local woman. The clues point to Jun's old nemesis, Professor Crow. Despite the danger, Jun is unable to resist the chance to take revenge on the man who left so many of his friends dead. However, Professor Crow has his own scores to settle ....
The Puppeteer King (Tales of Crow #3)
Once-human monsters, giant robot spiders, human statues and a madman with a thirst for destruction … Professor Kurou is back and more dangerous than ever.
After five years of incarceration, Jun Matsumoto is released from a mental hospital. With his hatred for Professor Kurou still consuming him, he enlists the help of some old friends and tracks his nemesis to Barcelona, where he hopes to rescue Ken Okamoto’s missing daughter, Nozomi.
Kurou, however, has a master plan that will not only destroy one of the greatest landmarks in mankind’s history, but bring war to an entire nation. Jun must battle not only ghosts from his past and his own failing mind, but a man who is now the undisputed Puppeteer King…
The Circus of Machinations (Tales of Crow #4)
For five long years, Professor Kurou has been in hiding, a wraith haunting the streets of the remote Siberian mining town of Brevik.
Victor Mishin is a small-town inventor who needs his help. An unstoppable, inhuman army is approaching the town, and the townsfolk face total annihilation at the hands of an evil even greater than the one that walks among them.
For at the head of an army is a man who will stop at nothing to see Professor Kurou dead.
The Dark Master of Dogs (Tales of Crow #5)
A penny for your thoughts, sire….
Twenty years ago, after thwarting an invasion that threatened to engulf the whole of Europe, the enigmatic but deadly Professor Crow limped away from a remote Siberian town and disappeared.
Now he is back, reappearing in Britain in 2034, where the mysterious Maxim Cale is making a bid for control of a country in turmoil.
In the quiet Somerset town of Cheddar, teenager Patrick Devan is looking for his missing brother, Race, while his girlfriend, Suzanne, is in great danger after her own father’s abrupt disappearance.
As Patrick and Suzanne flee the brutal Department of Civil Affairs, Professor Crow sets his plans in action. But when their paths cross, there will be no escape, as the unpredictable master of robots plans to wreak havoc on the world one last time….
The Endinfinium Series
Benjamin Forrest and the School at the End of the World (Endinfinium #1)
At the end of everything ... there is a new beginning.
Benjamin Forrest wakes up on a strange beach. Two suns shine in the sky, and a couple of miles out from the shore, the sea drops off the edge of the world.
Where is he? How did he get here? And most importantly, how can he get home?
As he begins to encounter the unusual characters of Endinfinium, he finds himself at the centre of a battle for a secret world, one in which he will play a decisive role ...
Benjamin Forrest and the Bay of Paper Dragons (Endinfinium #2)
At the end of everything is a new beginning....
Desperate to escape the strange world of Endinfinium, Benjamin Forrest heads for the source of the Great Junk River, searching for an old explorer who disappeared many years before. The rest of the students, meanwhile, head to a study camp at the Bay of Paper Dragons, where they will find everything not as they imagined, and danger lurking everywhere, even from within their own ranks ....
Benjamin Forrest and the Lost City of the Ghouls (Endinfinium #3)
At the end of everything ... there is a new beginning.
Benjamin Forrest and his friends witness their first triangulation, a ceremony for Endinfinium High's graduating pupils, where they can choose whether to remain with the school or make their own way in the world. Three brave pupils opt for adventure, but when, a few weeks later, one is found wandering in the Haunted Forrest, pursued by dangerous ghouls and babbling about a lost city, Benjamin and his friends are thrown into their most dangerous situation yet.
For the Lost City of the Ghouls is coming ... and it will stop at nothing to destroy Endinfinium High once and for all.
Benjamin Forrest and the Curse of the Miscreants (Endinfinium #4)
At the end of everything there is a new beginning...
After the shocking events at the end of Lost City of the Ghouls, Benjamin Forrest finds himself once again in a place he ought to find familiar - his home town of Basingstoke. However, things have changed from the Basingstoke he remembers: giant bundles of rubbish now cross the countryside, crushing everything in their path, and children showing signs of an unusual ability are ruthlessly hunted by teams of dog-catchers. Benjamin must unravel the mystery of these children known as Miscreants if he is to face his greatest showdown yet, against a face becoming increasingly familiar....
At the end of everything there is a new beginning...
After the shocking events at the end of Lost City of the Ghouls, Benjamin Forrest finds himself once again in a place he ought to find familiar - his home town of Basingstoke. However, things have changed from the Basingstoke he remembers: giant bundles of rubbish now cross the countryside, crushing everything in their path, and children showing signs of an unusual ability are ruthlessly hunted by teams of dog-catchers. Benjamin must unravel the mystery of these children known as Miscreants if he is to face his greatest showdown yet, against a face becoming increasingly familiar....
Benjamin Forrest and the Rise of the Pure Blood (Endinfinium #5)
With most of the teachers having fled, Endfindinium High School is under the control of evil Godfrey Pendleton and his sinister substitute teachers. Not content just to rule, however, Godfrey, influenced by the Dark Man’s great shadow, will only be satisfied when the school is reduced to a pile of rubble and bricks.
Hiding out in the dark, empty tunnels of Underfloor, Miranda Butterworth aims to foil Godfrey’s plans by unravelling the secrets of the school’s ancient heart chamber. With Godfrey’s cohorts on her tail, however time is running out.
Having returned to Endinfinium, Benjamin Forrest and Wilhelm Jacobs take refuge at the Bay of Paper Dragons Guesthouse. With massive, deadly ghouls wandering the countryside, though, soon Benjamin must do what he fears the most: return to the school and face Godfrey’s growing power.
With most of the teachers having fled, Endfindinium High School is under the control of evil Godfrey Pendleton and his sinister substitute teachers. Not content just to rule, however, Godfrey, influenced by the Dark Man’s great shadow, will only be satisfied when the school is reduced to a pile of rubble and bricks.
Hiding out in the dark, empty tunnels of Underfloor, Miranda Butterworth aims to foil Godfrey’s plans by unravelling the secrets of the school’s ancient heart chamber. With Godfrey’s cohorts on her tail, however time is running out.
Having returned to Endinfinium, Benjamin Forrest and Wilhelm Jacobs take refuge at the Bay of Paper Dragons Guesthouse. With massive, deadly ghouls wandering the countryside, though, soon Benjamin must do what he fears the most: return to the school and face Godfrey’s growing power.
Fire Fight (The Fire Planets Saga #1)
In a far corner of the galaxy, the seven systems of the Fire Quarter face a terrible threat from a dangerous warlord.
On the fire planet of Abalon 3, evil Raylan Climlee threatens to unleash a wave of destruction in order to take control of the planet's valuable source of trioxyglobin, a dangerous but valuable liquid used for starship fuel. The only person who can stop him is Lianetta Jansen, a disgraced former Galactic Military Policewoman now turned smuggler, who is haunted by a terrible tragedy in her past. Along with her ragtag, wisecracking crew—the one-armed pilot Caladan, and the malfunctioning droid, Harlan5—Lia must confront her own demons, while trying to stop another.
Fire Storm (The Fire Planets Saga #2)
Intergalactic war is coming ...
On the run from deadly mercenaries in the outer reachers of Trill System, Lianetta Jansen and her ragtag crew come across a distress signal from a stricken freighter. On investigation, they are drawn into a trap that will send them spiraling across the galaxy, battling with slave traders and facing off against immense invasion fleets, as they attempt to protect both their own lives and those of millions of innocent people.
Fire Rage (The Fire Planets Saga #3)
The mighty Trill System has fallen to the Barelaon horde.
Lianetta Jansen and her ragtag crew flee the deadly Raylan Climlee, now calling himself Overload of Trill System. After a smuggling mission goes wrong, however, Lia and Caladan find themselves on board a prison ship heading for a remote asteroid. There they meet an incarcerated journalist from the secretive Cask System, who might hold the key to their escape.
On the remote fire planet of Ergogate, Harlan5 is left in charge of the Matilda. When the ship is hijacked by three young freedom fighters, the droid is roped into a mission which will bring him face to face with some of the deadliest creatures in the galaxy.
Giant creatures, outlawed tech. And a heartbreaking choice Lia must make if she is to give the Estron Quadrant a chance of survival.
Fire Flare (The Fire Planets Saga #4)
A thrilling continuation of Chris Ward's stunning Space Opera series The Fire Planets Saga.
After three years in hiding, Caladan and his ragtag crew are once again hunted. Finding themselves on the collapsing Dynis Moon, they must battle the sinister Shadowmen and escape the deadly Evattlans.
For Caladan, however, the stakes are higher than ever.
Lianetta Jansen is still missing, and he will stop at nothing to find her.
A thrilling continuation of Chris Ward's stunning Space Opera series The Fire Planets Saga.
After three years in hiding, Caladan and his ragtag crew are once again hunted. Finding themselves on the collapsing Dynis Moon, they must battle the sinister Shadowmen and escape the deadly Evattlans.
For Caladan, however, the stakes are higher than ever.
Lianetta Jansen is still missing, and he will stop at nothing to find her.
Fire Hunt (The Fire Planets Saga #5)
Three years of torment.
Three years of hell.
Three years of living under a false name as a prisoner in a remote mining compound, and Lianetta Jansen, former captain of the Matilda, is about to see her luck turn.
The intergalactic war begun by Raylan Climlee has finally made its way to the vast deserts of Abalon3, and Lia is about to find herself on the run again. For her greatest enemy has found her at last.
Desperate to protect the mysterious boy, Wilt—who has a penchant for seeing the future—Lia must stay one step ahead of the unstoppable assassin Jasper Deentik if she has any hope of ever seeing her friends again.
Three years of torment.
Three years of hell.
Three years of living under a false name as a prisoner in a remote mining compound, and Lianetta Jansen, former captain of the Matilda, is about to see her luck turn.
The intergalactic war begun by Raylan Climlee has finally made its way to the vast deserts of Abalon3, and Lia is about to find herself on the run again. For her greatest enemy has found her at last.
Desperate to protect the mysterious boy, Wilt—who has a penchant for seeing the future—Lia must stay one step ahead of the unstoppable assassin Jasper Deentik if she has any hope of ever seeing her friends again.
Non-series Novels
The Man Who Built the World
Matthew Cassidy is a man on the verge of self-destruction. His career is in tatters and his marriage is hanging by a thread under the threat of a latent violence he is struggling to control. His wife Rachel is on the verge of leaving him even before a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back into a world of violence and mystery that he left behind on a bloody winter's
night sixteen years before.
Matt must return to the quiet little country town of Tamerton, where he grew up in a world of questions but few answers. The town has changed but the mysteries remain, and Matt must question everything he thought he knew about his past. Why was his little sister mute? What really happened to his mother? And who are the two mysterious but beautiful, ageless sisters who live in an isolated cottage out on the moor?
The Man Who Built the World is a tour de force supernatural thriller where the answers are never quite what they seem . . .
Head of Words
Bliss … or is it?
Life is peachy for twenty-something Daniel Barker, who lives with his offbeat group of friends in a small flat in Bristol. From the
eccentric Franz to the dominatrix Polly and the psychotic Shane, they all bring colour and excitement to his life. Together they are family, inseparable.
But as space reaches a premium and tensions begin to rise, Dan's whole world threatens to implode around him.
The real nightmare is about to begin …
Veering from brutal to comic via tragedy, disaster and love, Head of Words is the story of one man’s path to understanding upon a rollercoaster of life that threatens to both destroy him and set him free.
Ugly Thirteen
It came from the future … to be your best friend.
Life sucks for thirteen-year-old James Newton. His bible-bashing mother wants to convert him, his teenage tempest of a sister wants to berate him, and his loudmouthed, womanising father just wants him to go away. School is no solace either, with sadistic bully Miles Craddock lurking around every corner. James finds comfort in his collection of science fiction novels, but when something appears that could have stepped out of the pages of one of his beloved books, it seems too good to be true.
And it is. Ugly Thirteen will be James’s best friend. But the grinning robot from a thousand years in the future will be so, so much more….
For James Newton, a Christmas wish is about to turn into a nightmare.
It came from the future … to be your best friend.
Life sucks for thirteen-year-old James Newton. His bible-bashing mother wants to convert him, his teenage tempest of a sister wants to berate him, and his loudmouthed, womanising father just wants him to go away. School is no solace either, with sadistic bully Miles Craddock lurking around every corner. James finds comfort in his collection of science fiction novels, but when something appears that could have stepped out of the pages of one of his beloved books, it seems too good to be true.
And it is. Ugly Thirteen will be James’s best friend. But the grinning robot from a thousand years in the future will be so, so much more….
For James Newton, a Christmas wish is about to turn into a nightmare.