Books by Tim Major

Sherlock Holmes mystery from the author of Snakeskins and Hope Island.

Sherlock Holmes assists a popular mystery writer whose plots seem to be coming to life.

In the idyllic village of Touchstone, the birds are singing and everyone is happy. But Ethan knows it's not real. England may be ruined and plagued with riots, but Touchstone is more dangerous still.

A gripping supernatural mystery for fans of John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos from the author of Snakeskins.

Strange stories about houses, homes and familiesA sentient house is overprotective of its occupants, a husband and wife cope with loneliness on a lengthy space flight, a Greenland shark mounts a supernatural attack on a mother and son, two sisters live in fear of the destroyed world beyond their walls, an engineer sabotages a post-apocalyptic holiday village, a camping trip turns a family feral, a man defragments his mind and another splices a rival's brain patterns onto his own. Includes the novella Carus & Mitch."More The Road than The Hunger Games, blending a John Wyndham-esque melancholy with a dose of existential despair, Carus & Mitch is a compelling, unconventional page-turner. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down until I reached the end." Lynda Rucker"Carus & Mitch is punchy and scary and tense and genuinely moving. The central portrait of the book's sibling relationship captures its mixture of friction and love spot on, with heartbreaking precision. Tim Major is an exceptional writer." Adam Roberts

A timely science-fiction thriller examining the repercussions of rejuvenation and cloning on individuals'' sense of identity and on wider society.Caitlin Hext''s first shedding ceremony is imminent, but she''s far from prepared to produce a Snakeskin clone. When her Skin fails to turn to dust as expected, she must decide whether she wishes the newcomer alive or dead. Worse still, it transpires that the Hext family may be of central importance to the survival of Charmers, a group of people with the inexplicable power to produce duplicates every seven years and, in the process, rejuvenate. In parallel with reporter Gerry Chafik and government aide Russell Handler, Caitlin must prevent the Great British Prosperity Party from establishing a corrupt new world order.Snakeskins is an SF thriller examining the repercussions of rejuvenation and cloning on individuals'' sense of identity and on wider society, with the tone of classic John Wyndham stories and the multi-strand storytelling style of modern TV series such as Channel 4''s Humans.