Na twaalf jaar in de uitgeverijwereld zette een ontslag in januari 2000 zijn schrijverscarrière in gang. Zijn vroege jaren werden gekenmerkt door frequente verhuizingen vanwege de legerplaatsingen van zijn vader, waardoor hij op diverse locaties terechtkwam. Deze ervaringen en vroege culturele invloeden vormden zijn leven diepgaand en resoneren nog steeds in zijn werk.
Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the full might of the powerful Holekhors as alien airships fly in the skies over seventeenth century London.
"Meet ADA LOVELACE, the fast thinking mathematician. She predicted the power of computers long before they were even invented. Find out why her mum kept her away from her mega-famous celebrity dad; why she was mesmerised by mesmerism; and what she planned to do with a MASSIVE machine that weighed four tons and had 20,000 moving parts