Fiction – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Friend of Castlereagh

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:23:14 +0000

Chosen for Autumn 2013 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction 1798 in Ireland has been described variously as the year of the French, the year of Liberty, or the year of rebellion. The summer was sunny, unusually so, but bloody when the United Irishmen, fired by France’s revolution and its gospel of equality, were crushed by a fearful, harsh and often inept ruling power.

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Visitors

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Chosen for July 2009 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction More an allegory than a novel, Visitors describes the impact of beings from a distant planet on the political, economic and spiritual life of Britain and the world A year into office and the Prime Minister’s only bonus was frustration. The swelling demands of welfare and security were like juggernauts, demolishing his reforms and…

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The President

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

The President goes missing. Every corner of the White House has been searched and double-checked, without success. The Vice President is in Europe, so the decision of whether to go public or not falls upon the Chief of Staff. Just then the phone rings: a journalist has spotted the President sitting on a park bench near the Lincoln Memorial, his only disguise a baseball cap pulled well down over…

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Prime Minister

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

The country is in crisis. Unrest and inner city tensions feed on unemployment. And as the Government struggles to contain the soaring debt, no one listens. Most are tired of ‘PR-savvy’ words, tired of the ‘blame-game’ that poses as debate. Divisions in the Cabinet force the premier’s resignation. Because circumstances are too dire to afford the luxury of an election, the Queen calls a meeting of…

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The Devil’s Dance

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:48 +0000

The Devil’s Dance transcends categories. It is an exciting, original story, full of menace and very moving. The story is told in turn by two teenagers, Jake and Samuel. It begins with a dream, like a musical overture, which contains the themes to be developed in the rest of the work and describes events that took place two or three hundred years earlier. Gradually the reader understands the horror…

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A Tear in the Curtain

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:01:57 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2013 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction This story of three families, Russian, Hungarian and British, is a timely reminder of the recent but half-forgotten period in which the story is set, the Cold War. Their experiences reflect the brutality, bravery, heartbreak, hope and disappointment of those days when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. As a thaw in East…

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