Books by Robert Wingfield

A contemporary Gothic tale of blood, sex and corruption. ***Ankerita died in an arcane ritual, but a promise she made to a witch from the sixteenth century forces her to return, unwittingly opening a portal into the realm of demons, and reawakening the Strangers from their millennia of sleep. ***The spectre of ancient evil now asserts its malign influence as the country is torn apart by shocking events. Only Ankerita can tackle the menace and attempt to release the victims from its thrall. ***In a race against time, the Doomsday Bell continues to toll, calling the Strangers with the Eyes of Men back into their unending conflict from millennia ago. ***

A fast-moving Gothic thriller, sinister and evocative, calling on many elements of the supernatural as well as contemporary issues, as experienced through the eyes of a feisty heroine without a recorded identity. Ankerita, a Tudor noblewoman released from her tomb after half a millennium of disturbed sleep, is desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the evil organisation that needs her for her unique blood, and the demons still trying to reclaim her soul. Her best friend is dying, but that there is a chance the friend can be cured if Ankerita can complete the 'Summoning' using a number of lost treasures, hidden long ago by a sorcerer from Celtic legend. The ritual has to be evoked on a specific night, when five planets are aligned for the first time since she died, but her pursuers are ever present, and the Summoning comes with a price. Hers will be the ultimate sacrifice, if the invocation fails.

There is a theory that death is not the end of existence, but is simply a shift into an alternative ¿universe. This is true and keeps happening to Tom Two-Dan $mith (sic). Usually, one forgets everything of the past and starts a new life. Tom is not so lucky; he remembers. In his last transition, he became the head of a large corporation, famous for doing something, but nobody knows what, including the staff. He is still investigating. To make life more difficult, the Temporal Conduct Authority, who don't believe the above theory, and are miffed about the fact he has shamelessly flaunted the Laws of Time and Space, are looking to return him to his proper place in the universes (i.e. completely dead).

Just when he thought he was dead and could have some time off, Tom Two-Dan $mith (sic) is catapulted into leading a business, in a chaotic world where bureaucracy and process have taken over from all logic and good sense. Everything seems to perpetuate an organisational structure, but nobody knows what his company actually does. Tom's challenge is to find out, and track down who is really in charge. Add into this multiple attempts on his life as people try to stop him, his quest to find true love, an investigation into a murder without a victim, the first rule of being a private investigator, and the impending total collapse of four universes, and we have a tangled knot that even Alexander the Great would have trouble cutting. Tom has to do something, otherwise it will be the end of everything he knows, and quite a few bits he doesn't. A lusty romp through everything wrong with business and life today. Adults only, and only those not easily offended... and managers everywhere.

When Tom's non-payment of a parking fine coincides with the breeding season of his security forces, and the rise of a vehicle storage junta, he is forced into a life as a fugitive. Using a converted cruise ship, he sets about kicking back against extortionate car parking charges, the proliferation of revenue speed cameras and the new 10 mph national speed limit. Regrettably, the laws of the land don't apply to the rich people who might have done something about it, or the poor, incarcerated in enclaves of antisocial housing, so Tom's reign of piracy, despite offering loyalty cards to the victims for being repeatedly plundered, quickly comes to an end when he loses his life in a freak copper-sodium flavoured pizza incident. Is there any hope for the common citizen, now that the figurehead of insurrection is gone, and the authorities continue to impose draconian traffic controls across the galaxy?

Tom wakes after an accident to find he has mislaid a load of years, his body and a whole planet. In search of his lost love, he becomes the ultimate commuter, moving into a new universe, where ¿the Second World War had gone on rather too long, and Scotland gained independence.¿ If that wasn't bad enough, another faction is determined to collapse the whole of creation. A liberation force from the US, spoiling to try out some new kit, joins the fray, and goes for total ¿annihilation. It's Tom's job to save the lot, aided only by a bunch of slaves and a bit of alien technology. One of the problems with hopping between universes is that there is a faint chance you can meet ¿yourself. That can't happen of course, and so it does, exactly at the point where the whole fabric of space and time breaks down.

Swallows and Amazons meets The Famous Five for the 21st Century. Springtime: Terry and Paul are looking forward to getting their beloved dinghy, Orinoco, back on the water. Perhaps, this year they can concentrate on sailing without running across criminal gangs or having another adventure searching for treasure. Unfortunately the criminals have other ideas. As witnesses, the boys and their older siblings, BJ and Graham, are a possible link to putting them behind bars, and anything might happen before they come to trial. All the youngsters have to do is lie low at their new cottage in the Lakes, keep out of trouble and not use social media... easier said than done. Their cover is blown, and they have to make a desperate escape, ending up in a remote village in Norway. Safe now? Not this bunch of youngsters. It's a case of frying pans and fires! Danger, intrigue and treachery follow... and that's just a normal day's sailing.

A rough treasure map, discovered in a neglected dinghy, starts two boys on a set of clues, each one bringing a greater reward. It's not plain sailing (as they say), because all the way, they are dogged by a modern day pirate, who wants the treasure for himself. They think they have escaped him when they travel north to the remotest part of the Lake District, but then fall foul of a gang of desperate criminals. While their family is besieged, the boys make a break for it in their dinghy. Will they ever find the treasure, or simply be lucky enough to escape with their lives? Swallows and Amazons for the 21st century.

Tom, Two-Dan $mith (sic) thought his life couldn't get any worse, until a gorgeous alien turns up at his door, and drags him off on a quest to sort out the company responsible for all the troubles in the galaxy. But as is usual with Tom, what glitters is nothing more than polished coal. His guide has another agenda, using him as cannon-fodder. Taken in by her charms, he follows her directions, surviving by sheer luck and circumstance only, to the very end of Time itself, and discovers a confluence of unimaginable universes and an alien plot to take over the lot. If that wasn't bad enough, Tom has to challenge a super-intelligent being, created by a brewing accident and a lot of radiation... and our man's not even sober by now.

In Tudor times, the blow of a knife ended Ankerita's unhappy marriage, and condemned her soul to a living death. There is a chance to atone for her crime, but 500 years have passed, and the new world she awakens to contains not only the shadows of the past, but also the nightmares of the present. She is thrown into a desperate flight to stay ahead of police and criminals determined to end her freedom, and the demons who want to drag her back into the silence of the grave.