David Spear
Salvation
A toxic friendship and murderous revenge, concieved on the brutal battlefields of the Great War, may change the course of history.
Challenging common perceptions that assassins are typically cold, isolated loners, Salvation, explores the Great War years and attitudes. The snobbery of the landed gentry, their inherent hatred of the working class, louche sexuality and indifferent attitudes to the aspiring, go some way to cultivating a vengeful, conflicted assassin – an assassin whose talents are engaged by secret forces to change the outcome of the war and break the armistice.
Tony Gaudioz & Raechel Turner-Murch
The Archibald McIndoe Story
Douglas is the last one of ‘the few’ from the Battle of Britain. Now in his nineties, the badly scarred geriatric is living out his final days in a care home. Each day memories, those bits seared indelibly into his memory, return with vivid reality causing him horror, pain and pleasure in his last months.
In this moving and, in part, disturbing visual exploration of Alzheimer’s, the experience of Douglas’s memories of war and injury, seen through the fog of loss of memory, reveals the reality of life as a burns victim through his gradually darkening days. At the heart of his memories and hallucinations is Archibald McIndoe, the brilliant, ground-breaking reconstructive surgeon who used his skill and innovative methods to save the lives of airman burned with life-changing injuries.
Raechel Turner-Murch
The Cockney King
The adventure of a lifetime and a new life of wealth and privilege at a Sultan's court; what could possibly go wrong?
Tommy leads a simple life, only enlivened by his visits to the Prospect of Whitby alehouse and his lady friends of the docks. However, his simple existence is interrupted by a visit from the Queens equerry. A musical man, he is ordered to Constantinople as a representative for the Queen and to deliver a special gift.
A riotous, terrifying, wonderful journey begins. Captured by pirates and chased by indigenous people at each stopover, he finally arrives in Constantinople, exhausted, but excited. He discovers, to his delight, that he has a wonderful talent - storytelling. By chance he is given a dangerous glimpse into the Sultans private court. What could possibly go wrong.
