James Lovegrove – author

Extract from The Age Of Zeus

Prologue: Corsica

Finally the monster was at bay.

          It had been flushed out of the forest.  It had been hounded downhill, bullets smacking at its heels and whanging into the trunks of oaks and other mountain broadleafs on either side of it.  It had been shepherded by gunfire into the village and driven along the streets.  At last it had been corralled in a cul-de-sac with high, ancient walls on either side.

          Cornered, panting, torso lathered in sweat, the monster turned.

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Extract from The Age of Ra

1 – Petra

The sun went down like a tin duck at a shooting gallery. Night stretched itself over the eastern Arabian desert, the light from a clear full moon creating a finely filigreed landscape of silver and black.

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Extract from Provender Gleed

‘Where is Provender?’ said Cynthia Gleed, and sighed, knowing full well the answer. Not here.

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Extract from Wolrdstorm

[In this excerpt, thirteen-year-old Gregory Brazier makes an unhappy discovery. Belonging to a bloodline of proud pyrokinetics, he finds his own superhuman powers are very different to those of the rest of his family.]

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Extract from Gig

[In this excerpt from the 'Kim' half of my palindromic double-novella, the eponymous antiheroine Kim finds herself embroiled in a clash between two rival groups of music fanatics…]

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Extract from Untied Kingdom

(The peaceful festivities of the town of Downbourne are shattered by the arrival of some very nasty interlopers.)

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Extract from Imagined Slights: “Satisfaction Guaranteed”

When Nora stepped out into my headlights there was no way I could avoid her. The front bumper embraced her legs and she jack-knifed flat over the bonnet, arms outstretched, face to the windscreen, staring at me through the glass, looking me straight in the eye.

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Extract from The Foreigners

(Parry and his lieutenant, Pål Johansen, begin their investigations into the strange deaths of a Siren and a Foreigner.)

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Extract from How The Other Half Lives

It was another merely magnificent Monday in the life of William Ian North.

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Extract from Days

(In this extract, our store detective hero, Frank Hubble, starts work and gets his first glimpse that day of a potential shoplifter.)

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Extract from The Hope: “The Finite Heart”

(This extra chapter is a stand-alone short story that is also tied directly into the continuity of the novel.)

Mel Hobbes met and fell in love with Joe Portside on his very first night waiting tables at the Neptune’s Trident.

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