Book Chronology
The Autumn of Empire: October 1961 (Timeline 10/27/62 – Countdown to War Book 1)
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesBook 1: The Autumn of Empire: October 1961 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. First, a tiny apology...
Enterprise: November 1961
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesBook 2: Enterprise: November 1961 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. It is November 1961 and the...
Fallout Shelter: December 1961
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesBook 3: Fallout Shelter: December 1961 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. It is December 1961 and the...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight: January 1962
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesThe Lion Sleeps Tonight: January 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. January 1962 and the new...
Doomsday Blues: February 1962
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesBook 5: Doomsday Blues: February 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. DOOMSDAY BLUES is the fifth...
The Great Storm: March 1962
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesThe Great Storm: March 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. THE GREAT STORM is the sixth of...
West Side Story: April 1962
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesWest Side Story: April 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. WEST SIDE STORY is the seventh of...
The Wall: May 1962
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesThe Wall: May 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. THE WALL is the eighth of thirteen books in...
Test Ban Treaty
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesTest Ban Treaty: June 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. TEST BAN TREATY is the ninth of...
The Night of the Long Knives
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesThe Night of the Long Knives: July 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. THE NIGHT OF THE LONG...
Marilyn
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesMarilyn: August 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. MARILYN is the eleventh of thirteen books in...
A Hard Rain
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesA Hard Rain: September 1962 Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. A HARD RAIN is the twelfth and...
Gathered on the Beach
Countdown To War: Prequel SeriesGathered on the Beach: October 1962 Gathered on the Beach is the thirteenth and final instalment of the Countdown to War prequel series of the Timeline 10/27/62 series. The outcome of the Cuban Missiles Crisis hung in the balance right...
Operation Anadyr
The first book in the ‘Timeline 10/27/62 Series’. The Cuban Missiles Crisis didn’t end peacefully and the 'swinging sixties' didn't happen because on Saturday 27th October 1962 American and Soviet brinkmanship resulted in the most terrible war in human...
Aftermath
‘Aftermath’ is Book 1 of the USA strand of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. The Cuban Missiles Crisis went wrong and now the American people are about to start living with the consequences of the catastrophe. From New England to the Pacific North...
Cricket on the Beach
Read by Duncan Galloway‘Cricket on the Beach’ is Book 1 of the Australian strand of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. The Cuban Missiles Crisis has gone wrong and the swinging sixties are not going to happen. While the thermonuclear madness might not...
The Lost Fleet
In the aftermath of the October War, Armageddon rumbled on. The cataclysm had struck, the missiles and the bombers had wrought global havoc and the survivors, everywhere, were picking up the pieces as they dazedly looked about them at the brave new...
Operation Manna
In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe of the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962 the British government and its surviving Commonwealth allies were in a state of shock. ‘Operation Manna’ is about what happened in the days and weeks after the first twenty-four...
Love Is Strange
Cuban Missiles Crisis didn’t end peacefully and the 'swinging sixties' didn't happen. Love is Strange picks up the story a year and a month after the terrifying events in Operation Anadyr. In a part-devastated world the hard-pressed government in England is beginning...
California Dreaming
It is November 1963 - thirteen months after the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong. In this timeline the swinging sixties are not going to happen and the survivors, far from counting their blessings are beginning to wonder exactly what sort of World they have...
The Pillars of Hercules
Read by Stephen M. Ray jr. It is December 1963 and the tensions that have been simmering since the October War have come to the boil in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion so poisonous, that nobody in England or Washington DC has realised that in the background...
The Great Society
In the alternative timeline of the post-Cuban Missiles War the swinging sixties never happened. ‘The Great Society’ is the third verse of the American story of Armageddon. To its friends and enemies alike the United States seems to have emerged from the October War...
Red Dawn
Read by Stephen M. Ray. jr. It is January 1964 in an alternative timeline in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happened. Although the fires of Washington DC have been extinguished and there is a new but fragile...
The Burning Time
It is February 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. The atomic mushroom clouds over the Mediterranean have dispersed and now as the world teeters on the brink of a new thermonuclear war, it is dawning on the ‘victors’ that their ‘victory’,...
Tales of Brave Ulysses
It is April 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. War is chaos; and chaos is war. The post-October War world is at a bloody crossroads; betrayals and confusion distract the West from the imminence of the disasters about to befall newly...
La Argentina
‘La Argentina’ is the first book of The Malvinas Trilogy. On the night of 2nd/3rd April, 1964, Operation Southern Justice, the liberation of the Malvinas and the lost South Atlantic territories, entered its end game as the assault force, supported by...
A Kelper’s Tale
‘A Kelper’s Tale’ is the third book of The Malvinas Trilogy. For as long as anybody recollected, Falkland Islanders had proudly referred to themselves as ‘Kelpers’. ‘Kelps’ are seaweeds which proliferate in veritable forests around the shores of the...
The Malvinas Trilogy
This omnibus edition puts all three previously published novellas in The Malvinas Trilogy in one volume. LA ARGENTINA covers the period of the Argentine invasion of the British South Atlantic Dependencies (The Falkland Islands-Las Islas Malvinas, South...
A Line in the Sand
It is April 1964 in a World in which the swinging sixties never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold. The Shah is...
The Mountains of the Moon
It is June 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are pouring down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers like wolves upon the fold. The Shah...
Ask Not Of Your Country
It is June 1964 in the altered timeline of a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crises went disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happened. ‘Ask Not of Your Country’ is the fourth verse of the American story of Armageddon. To its friends and enemies alike...
All Along The Watchtower
A little over twenty months have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962. It is Independence Day in Philadelphia, the temporary capital of the United States. Metaphorically and soon, it will be a minute before midnight in Philadelphia on 4th July 1964...
The American Dream
It is November 1964: there has been a bitterly contested Presidential election; the war in the Midwest has become bogged down in the rain and the cold of the coming winter; the peace conference is deadlocked at the old United Nations building in Manhattan; and the...
Crow On The Cradle
‘CROW ON THE CRADLE’ is to all intents, the sequel to THE AMERICAN DREAM. It is January 1965 in a World in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. In the United States a new President has entered the White House;...
1966 & All That
Read by John TealIt is May 1965. Over forty months have passed since the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong in a world in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. In America the White House is mired in domestic scandals and committed to an unwinnable proxy...
Only In America
It is January 1966 in a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went disastrously wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Now, on New Year’s Day 1966 the United States finds itself suddenly under attack and plunged into a Second Civil War. The...
Football In The Ruins
It is the late summer of 1966. This is a FOOTBALL book about the World Cup of 1966 set in the altered timeline of 10/27/62 in which the swinging sixties never happened because the Russians and the Americans blew up the world when the Cuban Missiles...
Warsaw Concerto
It is November 1966 in an altered timeline in which the swinging sixties never happened and the Cold War has returned with a bitingly chilly vengeance. Four years on from the Cuban Missiles War the survivors are struggling to come to terms with the new...
The House on Haight Street
The House on Haight Street is a novella featuring Miranda Sullivan and Joe Calleja, culled from material originally included in the body of WARSAW CONCERTO. It did not make the ‘final cut’ of for two reasons: firstly, I thought it was one sub-strand too many and...
Eight Miles High
It is January 1967, over four years have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962. Over four long years down an altered timeline in which the swinging sixties never happened. To the West the Soviet Union still seems hell-bent on confrontation, in Washington DC a...
Won’t Get Fooled Again
It is February 1968 in a world in which the swinging sixties never happened because the Cuban Missiles Crisis of October 1962 went catastrophically wrong. Since the cataclysm struck, obliterating great and historic cities, laying waste to great swathes of the northern...
Puerto Argentino
‘Puerto Argentino’ is the second book of The Malvinas Trilogy. It is February, 1968. To the Argentine Republic the archipelago, Las Malvinas, and all the other British territories taken by force of arms in April 1964 – South Georgia, the South Sandwich...
Cuba Libre
This was where it had started; and ought to have ended. Cuba… But now it is February 1969 and Cuba is front and centre in the President’s sights. Initially, it was estimated that over 90 percent of the population of the main island, over six million men,...
Stumbling Towards the Edge
‘Stumbling Towards the Edge’ is the first of four novels about the Falklands War of 1969-70. It is the seventh year after Cuban Missiles war derailed the modern world. In this altered timeline the swinging sixties did not happen and ever since the night...
Armadas: The War in the South Atlantic – Part 1
It is October 1969. In a timeline altered by the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962, a British Task Force is gathering in the South Atlantic to take back the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders. The fighting begins...but can a war 8,000 miles from home for a...
Smoke On The Water: The War in the South Atlantic – Part 2
It is November 1969 in a world in which the swinging sixties never happened because the Cuban Missiles Crisis turned the Cold War ‘hot’ on the night of 27 October 1962 and the survivors have been living, and fighting it seems, ever since. Only that spring there had...
Cassandra’s Song: The War in the South Atlantic – Part 3
Cassandra’s Song is the third and final book of the War in the South Atlantic sub-series set in the Timeline 10/27/62 verse. The waters around the Falkland Islands have turned into a windswept, storm-tossed killing ground as the troops have gone ashore. In the absence...
Changing Of The Guard
The reverberations of the war in the South Atlantic are rippling around the world but nowhere are the aftershocks so profound as in the United Kingdom and the Argentine. For both countries the political landscape has altered forever. It is not just the price in lives...
Independence Day
It is October 1972 and the tenth anniversary of the October War approaches. For Marija and Peter, the President-designate and future First Man of Malta, Independence Day is almost upon them. The world is a very different place than it was in October 1962; whether its...
The Missing
More Information to follow & book will be released in 2024. Watch this space for details.
America’s Cup
Details will be released in early 2025.