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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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