Fay Sampson

The Gothengau Colony is an alternate history novel set in 1965, in a Nazi-controlled Europe. Britain turned its back on France and remained neutral if not friendly to the Third Reich. The Soviet Union has been obliterated, Europe’s Jews almost all murdered, and Germany dominates the space race. It is told from the points of view of three German-Americans (Konrad, Petra, and Karl) who migrated from the US to the Fatherland on the same ship almost 20 years earlier. The stark contrast between his Amish upbringing and the murderous regime of the Third Reich creates tension for Konrad, who is caught between two worlds.

When saving a life in 1946 Alabama, Amish giant Konrad took one in return and must run before the electric chair claims him. In New York, Nazi propaganda fools him into jumping on a ship to Berlin, capital of the Third Reich. In 1965, at Gothengau, an SS-run colony in Ukraine, a terrorist rocket attack on Berlin compels soldier-farmer Konrad to focus on his duty: commanding an SS convict battalion. He must flex his muscle for the armed forces or the Holocaust’s perpetrators – his superiors, colleagues, and neighbours in Ukraine. Survival means playing both sides, but will the fellow German-Americans he arrived with 20 years earlier join him in his fight and in the process, trigger the dawn of a Fourth Reich?

Blast off to the planet Drumendus with twelve-year-old Ella Crinkle and her best friend Freddie, on a homemade spaceship invented by brilliant and eccentric Aunt Belinda, the most famous astronaut in history.

Will Ella be able to face her fears and uncover the truth about her family’s past? What other secrets will she uncover on this unexpected, musical adventure to the extraordinary purple planet?

Halloween approaches and a prophecy has been foretold

Tilly Hart is grieving for her mother when she moves to the ancient village of Witheridge. Finding friendship and love, she also finds a place steeped in witchlore and the legend of a beast that stalks the moor.

Supernatural events and a hidden diary lead her to a village lost in time, a place where magic exists and demons walk the lands.

With newfound friends and the deadline of Halloween drawing near, she sets out to prevent an ancient evil from destroying all she loves.

Being both the hunter and hunted, she discovers she can control magic.

But magic is an addiction that can lead to evil.

13 Reasons Why meets The Wasp Factory in an impossible to put down thriller that will take your breath away.

Last year, Ollie Morcombe was a star pupil, popular and a gifted musician.

Then, after the accident, everything changed. Now he’s an outcast, a prime target of the school bullies who have made his life a living hell.

Today – the last day of the school year – he’s brought those bullies a gift. A homemade pipe bomb.

What has driven a model student to plan an unspeakable revenge? And with the clock ticking down to home time, what can anybody do to stop him?

Jonathan is in terrible danger. After his home is attacked by faceless monsters in bowler hats, he wakes up in the strange village of Hobbes End. Built by a fallen angel and hidden deep within a forest, Hobbes End protects those who need to be safe – and nobody is more in need of protection than Jonathan.

Jonathan is the only half-angel, half-demon in the universe, and now the forces of Hell want him for their own purpose. Aided by a vicar with a broken heart, a big man with a cricket bat and a very rude cat, Jonathan races to find the mysterious Gabriel’s Clock. If he doesn’t find it then his family and friends will die, but, if he does, then he risks starting a war between Heaven and Hell that could engulf them all.

Gabriel’s clock is ticking . . . and time is running out.

She is bound to serve. He is meant to kill. Survival is their prison. Choice is their weapon.

As the sacred slave of a goddess, Roma is of a lower caste that serves patrons to sustain the balance between gods and men. What she wants is her freedom, but deserters are hunted and hanged, and Roma only knows how to survive in her village where women are vessels without a voice. When her younger brother is condemned to the same wretched fate as hers, Roma must choose between silence and rebellion.

Leviathan is the bastard son of an immortal tyrant. Raised in a military city where everyone knows of his blood relation to the persecuted clans, Leviathan is considered casteless. Lowest of the low. Graduating as one of the deadliest soldiers, he executes in his father’s name, displaying his worth. When he faces judgement from his mother’s people-the clans-Leviathan must confront his demons and forge his own path, if he ever hopes to reclaim his soul.

But in the struggle to protect the people they love and rebuild their identities, Roma’s and Leviathan’s destinies interlock as the tyrant hunts an ancient treasure that will doom humankind should it come into his possession-a living treasure to which Roma and Leviathan are the ultimate key.

Set in a colonised Indo-Persian world and inspired by pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, The Descent of the Drowned is a tale about power, identity, and redemption, and what it takes to hold on to one’s humanity in the face of devastation.

The Organisation is a fantasy set in a make-believe world of wooden sailing ships, horse-drawn carriages and soldiers in red tunics and tall hats. Although it is a fairy tale it contains no magic or talking animals and is not meant for young children. It is intended for grown-ups, particularly ones with inquiring interests in a wide range of contentious issues.

A gold storage business is transformed into a very profitable bank when its owners find they can create paper money, and issue loans, without the need to back all their banknotes with gold. It transforms Areho into a flourishing kingdom. An association dedicated to protecting business interests is formed. To help obscure it from the public the association is not given a name, although to members of its innermost circles it is known as The Organisation. By secretly infiltrating all centres of power and influence, including the monarchy and the news media, The Organisation fulfils its goal, but astute members of its inner circles realise that the economic system they have created has a requirement of its own. It is an issue they cannot ignore.

Ryheart is a low-rank member of the hunter’s guild, removing minor pests for little profit; a role far from the heroic quests he had dreamt of. Desperately in need of coin, he stumbles across a mysterious fae within the cobbled streets of Londaya. The benign creature makes a deal with him; if he provides her shelter, she will help with his money problems. Surely, he thinks, such a simple deal can’t go wrong?

Unwittingly he finds himself tied to Fali, the mysterious creature, and is dragged into a dangerous world of magic he is scant prepared to deal with. Can he trust his strange new companion and find a way out of the danger he finds himself in? Or will he fall victim to creatures he never even imagined before the debt collectors can even find him?