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Category Archives: The Thief of Time
First 2 Novels
My first two novels, THE THIEF OF TIME and THE CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS, are republished today in brand spanking new jackets by my UK publisher Transworld. Over the next 12 months all my novels are being rejacketed with this new style.
THE THIEF OF TIME was first published in August 2000 and tells the story of Matthieu Zela, whose life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother’s brutal murder. His only companions are his younger brother Tomas and one true love, Dominique Sauvet. The story of his life takes us from the French Revolution to 1920s Hollywood, from the Great Exhibition to the Wall Street Crash, and by the end of the twentieth century, Matthieu has been an engineer, a rogue, a movie mogul, a soldier, a financier, a lover to many, a cable TV executive and much more besides.
THE CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS was published 18 months later at the end of 2001. William Cody grows up surrounded by his father’s tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry. When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill’s stage show, ‘The Congress of Rough Riders of the World’ for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part of it. When tragedy strikes, however, it is to his father that he must eventually return.
CRIPPEN and NEXT OF KIN will be published in similar livery in September.
The novels are available in paperback and for e-readers. You can buy them from Amazon here:
First Four Novels
Before THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS was published in 2006, I had already published 4 novels which, to be frank, did not reach the readership that my most recent 3 novels have. My UK publisher Transworld will be bringing each of these 4 novels back into print at six-monthly intervals from the first week of August, beginning with my debut novel THE THIEF OF TIME which, coincidentally, was published exactly 10 years before that, in August 2000. The novels will be published with uniform jackets and the first is shown here. Over the next 18 months then, THE CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS, CRIPPEN and NEXT OF KIN will also be available in bookstores once again.
You can pre-order the new edition of THE THIEF OF TIME here.
