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Item Details
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TIMESTORM
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| By: |
Steve Harrison |
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Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£3.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908168544 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908168542 |
| Publisher: |
ALNPETE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 August, 2014 |
| Description: |
In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for Australia. En route it encounters a savage storm. Miraculously, the battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour, where the convicts rebel, destroy the ship and escape. But the surviving convicts and crew have more to concern them than a shipwreck, because they have arrived in 2017. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for New South Wales in Australia. Nearing its destination, it encounters a savage storm but, miraculously, their battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour. Here, the convicts rebel, overpower the crew and make their escape, destroying the ship in the process. Fleeing the sinking vessel with only the clothes on their backs, the survivors struggle ashore. Among the escaped convicts, seething resentments fuel an appetite for brutal revenge against their former captors while, for their part, the crew attempts to track down and kill or recapture the escapees. However, it soon becomes apparent that both convicts and crew have more to concern them than shipwreck and a ruthless fight for survival; they have arrived in Sydney in 2017. TimeStorm is a thrilling epic adventure story of revenge, survival and honour set in a strange new world of unfamiliar technology and equally unfathomable social norms. In the literary footsteps of Hornblower, comes Lieutenant Christopher 'Kit' Blaney, an old-fashioned hero, a man of honour, duty and principle, dragged into the 21st century - literally.A great fan of the grand seafaring adventure fiction of CS Forester, Patrick O'Brien and Alexander Kent, and modern action thriller writers such as Lee Child, Steve Harrison combines several genres in his debut novel. The book was inspired by a replica 18th century sailing ship on Sydney Harbour and a question from Steve's brother, Tony: "What if that was a real convict ship?" TimeStorm explores that question in a fast-paced story as a group of desperate men from the 1700s clash in 21st century Sydney. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Elsewhen Press |
| Prizes: |
Commended for Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary |
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Non-returnable |
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