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Below are details of books Marie has typeset for Telos Books Ltd, award winning publishers of such books as Breathe, Valley of Lights, and many more. Please visit www.telos.co.uk for more details of their publications and how to order them. THE ANGEL INSIDE by Mike Ripley A Telos Original Streetwise chancer Angel is in trouble – again. His partner Amy is being strangely secretive, and when the jailbird who's been stalking her turns out to be her secret ex-husband, he gets caught up in a hazardous escapade involving Welsh gangsters, female private eyes and ferocious cats. Telos Publishing is proud to present the first ever paperback edition of the twelfth book in Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels - complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author. "The description of getting into Belmarsh Prison is so detailed that the author must surely have gone through this rigmarole himself ... Enough to make you laugh out loud ... An unfailingly funny crime series." Professor Bernard Knight (former Home Office Pathologist) "Mike Ripley is Britain’s funniest crime writer. Angel On The Inside is both riotous and riotously funny." Peter Guttridge, The Observer "Full of the good stuff, with a plot as meaty as prime steak and just as rich in protein ..." Philip Oakes, Literary Review FORCE MAJEURE by Daniel O'Mahony A Telos Original Somewhere in the Andes, in a nebulous border zone never claimed by any nation, is the last of the free cities. Candida is a blank on the map. Here there are dragons. Kay travels across the Atlantic to Candida on business. She soon finds herself lost in an unfamiliar city without a job or a home. She's taken in by the oldest house in the city and put to work by its inscrutable chatelaine. She may have lost control of her life but she knows that Prospero is coming to open the hidden city to the outside world. While she waits, she makes new contacts, allies, even friends: the exgunrunner, blinded by the light; the soldier-poet, loyal to dreams of the dead; the courier who wants to become a bird; and Xan – fascinating Xan – who may be all of Kay's dreams come true. They all have stories of the city, its history and its powers. Some of them might even be true. Here there are dragons. An incredible fantasy from a major new talent. BLACK TIDE by Del Stone Jr. A Telos Original Miller, a university professor, and two of his students take a trip out to a spoil island in the middle of Santa Rosa Sound in the Florida Keys to study the effects of pollution on the flora and fauna. While they are there, a tide of black microbes is released into the river, and floods down and around them. They escape by burying themselves in the sand, but when they emerge, it is to a world which is strangely silent and changed. Before long, burning figures are glimpsed along the distant banks, dragging themselves into the water. Then the attacks start. With daylight their only weapon, Miller realises that time is running out as an army of the living dead, intent on feasting on their flesh, is gathering in the surrounding waters. A classic tale of horror in the great tradition of 'Night of the Living Dead'. THE LONG, BIG KISS GOODBYE by Scott Montgomery A Telos original Sultry Kitty O'Malley arrives at the office of flatfoot turned gumshoe Jack Sharp, with an offer he can't refuse, and a body he can't resist. Our down-at-heel hero soon realises that dames might be the death of him, very soon... Meet Jack Sharp - private detective. Smooth talking. Hard living. Meet Kitty O'Malley - femme fatale. Beautiful. Deadly. Put them together and what do you get? Crime! Intrigue! Passion! And ... Cigarettes! Booze! Hangovers! Think you know hard-boiled fiction...? You don't know Jack. TALES OF TERROR - SHROUDED BY DARKNESS edited by Alison LR Davies A Telos Original From some of the most innovative writers of horror fiction working today, an anthology of tales guaranteed to bring a chill to the spine. This collection has been published to raise money for DebRA, a national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). All royalties from this book will go to the charity to help them continue their good work. Featuring stories by: Debbie Bennett, Poppy Z Brite, Simon Clark, Storm Constantine, Peter Crowther, Alison L R Davies, Paul Finch, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Gary Greenwood, David J Howe, Dawn Knox, Tim Lebbon, Charles de Lint, Steven Lockley & Paul Lewis, James Lovegrove, Graham Masterton, Richard Christian Matheson, Justina Robson, Mark Samuels, Darren Shan, Michael Marshall Smith With a frontispiece by Clive Barker and a foreword by Stephen Jones. ANGEL TOUCH by Mike Ripley Classic Crime London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good. Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author. ANGEL HUNT by Mike Ripley Classic Crime London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good. Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author. A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY by TM Wright A Telos Original Photographer Abner Cray arrives in Manhattan to begin work on an illustrated book of the city. However he finds that Art, the owner of the flat he is staying in, has gone missing, leaving behind a beguiling and sensuous young lady called Phyllis Pellaprat to whom he's instantly attracted. Soon Abner is deeply involved with Phyllis and is wholly unprepared for the revelation that Art is actually wanted for her murder - an event which took place some time earlier. When Phyllis disappears, Abner wanders the streets, and he sees what appear to be disaffected and strangly acting people everywhere - hailing taxis, selling puppies on street corners, pushing baby carriages, and he starts to suspect ... This classic novel was first published nearly twenty-five years ago: it's a hypnotic, spooky page-turner that is by turns a terrifying slide into madness and an effective love story. PRETTY YOUNG THINGS by Dominic McDonagh A Telos Original What's a girl to do these days? If she's not worrying about her makeup or her drop-dead outfit, it's the total lack of anyone hot to pick up at the local nightclub. Someone strong and silent, someone good looking ... someone who might not mind a bit of rough and tumble. And if he ends up being hung in the cellar with the other bloodcalves then that's too bad ... after all, a girl's gotta drink. Chelsea is a vampire, one of a nest of lesbian rave-bunny vampires, but when the nest picks her ex-boyfriend as their newest food source, she takes matters into her own hands ... A novella featuring sexy vampire girls, blood, horror, and enough catfights to sate even the most jaded of vampire lovers. A debut novella from an impressive new talent. MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF by Joseph Nassise A Telos Original On a bright June morning, Sam Dalton's world suddenly crumbles as he learns that his four-year-old daughter, Jessica, has contracted a mysterious disease. Her internal organs are slowly shutting down, one by one, and her doctors are unable to even pinpoint the cause, never mind find a cure. With weary shakes of their heads, they give her less than a month to live. A chance meeting with a terrifying bleeding-eyed vagrant offers a despairing Sam a possible solution ... but at what price? A tale of love and consequences by the author of 'Riverwatch' and 'Heretic'. PARISH DAMNED by Lee Thomas A TELOS ORIGINAL The sickness was only the beginning of the misery for the residents of Coral Point. Every four years, the disease arrived to claim its victims. Those infected invariably withered, suffered, and, according to local legend, took to the sea in a final attempt at peace. But things have changed. Something has arrived in the wake of the sickness, and only a lone charter boat captain understands that what now hunts the gulf beyond the reef is far more deadly than anything that the people of Coral Point could imagine. The waters have become the shelter for a new and lethal species, a dark breed of predator that will not be confined to the waves... "A master of the "New Southern Gothic", Lee Thomas shows that there are things lurking beneath the surface of us all that are better left alone." PD Cacek VALLEY OF LIGHTS by Stephen Gallagher A TELOS ORIGINAL A routine call to a sleazy Phoenix hotel throws police sergeant Alex Volchak into a world where the brain-dead check themselves out of hospital, and a stranger can seem to know the most intimate details of his life. Like his feelings for Loretta, the neighbour who’s more than a friend, and her daughter Georgina, so much the child he never had. Volchak finds himself on the hunt for a child killer, someone who can apparently switch bodies with ease, and who is playing games with the police. And then Georgina is taken. ANOTHER WAR by Simon Mordern A TELOS ORIGINAL It starts with a mystery: an old manor house is surrounded by an impenetrable bubble, and all that lives within it seems to wither and die. Investigating, the Army find two men inside the house: men who vanished some 100 years ago but who have now reappeared, and as young as the day they disappeared. There are rumours of a machine which could puncture the dimensions, allowing man to travel beyond the bounds of the Earth ... and for other things to travel here. Another day, another war. APPROACHING OMEGA by Eric Brown A TELOS ORIGINAL //~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed ... //~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained ... all lives lost ... hangars 2 and 5 still operational ... //~Mission parameters adjusted: Augmentation of colonists to commence ... //~Request all drones and 'bots to medical units to begin experimentation ... HOUDINI'S LAST ILLUSION by Steve Savile A TELOS ORIGINAL Harry Houdini is a haunted man. Haunted by success; his emotions; and now by some of his compatriots: famed and feted illusionists like himself. The only problem is that they are dead. Houdini knows that time is running out, and before he is ready to die he must perform one final trick, the greatest illusion of his life... BREATHE by Christopher Fowler A TELOS ORIGINAL An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre. All is not well at SymaxCorp. The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again. It’s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem. As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air... THE HUMAN ABSTRACT by George Mann A TELOS ORIGINAL Guided by machines from Earth, the colony world of Copernica has become a stable human outpost, a world not dissimilar to Earth itself, with a burgeoning population and culture of its own. But Rehan Mihajlovic, a dealer in antiquarian goods, is about to find out that history is only as reliable as those who write it, and that death, when it comes, is never very far away... Home \| Websites \| Typesetting \| Writing

Below are details of books Marie has typeset for Telos Books Ltd, award winning publishers of such books as Breathe, Valley of Lights, and many more. Please visit www.telos.co.uk for more details of their publications and how to order them.

THE ANGEL INSIDE
by Mike Ripley

A Telos Original

Streetwise chancer Angel is in trouble – again. His partner Amy is being strangely secretive, and when the jailbird who's been stalking her turns out to be her secret ex-husband, he gets caught up in a hazardous escapade involving Welsh gangsters, female private eyes and ferocious cats.

Telos Publishing is proud to present the first ever paperback edition of the twelfth book in Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels - complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.

"The description of getting into Belmarsh Prison is so detailed that the author must surely have gone through this rigmarole himself ... Enough to make you laugh out loud ... An unfailingly funny crime series." Professor Bernard Knight (former Home Office Pathologist)

"Mike Ripley is Britain’s funniest crime writer. Angel On The Inside is both riotous and riotously funny." Peter Guttridge, The Observer

"Full of the good stuff, with a plot as meaty as prime steak and just as rich in protein ..." Philip Oakes, Literary Review

FORCE MAJEURE
by Daniel O'Mahony

A Telos Original

Somewhere in the Andes, in a nebulous border zone never claimed by any nation, is the last of the free cities. Candida is a blank on the map. Here there are dragons.

Kay travels across the Atlantic to Candida on business. She soon finds herself lost in an unfamiliar city without a job or a home. She's taken in by the oldest house in the city and put to work by its inscrutable chatelaine. She may have lost control of her life but she knows that Prospero is coming to open the hidden city to the outside world.

While she waits, she makes new contacts, allies, even friends: the exgunrunner, blinded by the light; the soldier-poet, loyal to dreams of the dead; the courier who wants to become a bird; and Xan – fascinating Xan – who may be all of Kay's dreams come true.

They all have stories of the city, its history and its powers. Some of them might even be true.

Here there are dragons.

An incredible fantasy from a major new talent.

BLACK TIDE
by Del Stone Jr.

A Telos Original

Miller, a university professor, and two of his students take a trip out to a spoil island in the middle of Santa Rosa Sound in the Florida Keys to study the effects of pollution on the flora and fauna. While they are there, a tide of black microbes is released into the river, and floods down and around them. They escape by burying themselves in the sand, but when they emerge, it is to a world which is strangely silent and changed.

Before long, burning figures are glimpsed along the distant banks, dragging themselves into the water. Then the attacks start. With daylight their only weapon, Miller realises that time is running out as an army of the living dead, intent on feasting on their flesh, is gathering in the surrounding waters.

A classic tale of horror in the great tradition of 'Night of the Living Dead'.

THE LONG, BIG KISS GOODBYE
by Scott Montgomery

A Telos original

Sultry Kitty O'Malley arrives at the office of flatfoot turned gumshoe Jack Sharp, with an offer he can't refuse, and a body he can't resist. Our down-at-heel hero soon realises that dames might be the death of him, very soon...

Meet Jack Sharp - private detective. Smooth talking. Hard living.

Meet Kitty O'Malley - femme fatale. Beautiful. Deadly.

Put them together and what do you get?

Crime!
    Intrigue!
        Passion!

And ...

Cigarettes!
    Booze!
        Hangovers!

Think you know hard-boiled fiction...?

You don't know Jack.

TALES OF TERROR - SHROUDED BY DARKNESS
edited by Alison LR Davies

A Telos Original

From some of the most innovative writers of horror fiction working today, an anthology of tales guaranteed to bring a chill to the spine.

This collection has been published to raise money for DebRA, a national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). All royalties from this book will go to the charity to help them continue their good work.

Featuring stories by: Debbie Bennett, Poppy Z Brite, Simon Clark, Storm Constantine, Peter Crowther, Alison L R Davies, Paul Finch, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Gary Greenwood, David J Howe, Dawn Knox, Tim Lebbon, Charles de Lint, Steven Lockley & Paul Lewis, James Lovegrove, Graham Masterton, Richard Christian Matheson, Justina Robson, Mark Samuels, Darren Shan, Michael Marshall Smith

With a frontispiece by Clive Barker and a foreword by Stephen Jones.

ANGEL TOUCH
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good.

Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author.

ANGEL HUNT
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good.

Back in print for the first time in a decade are the first three titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author.

A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY
by TM Wright

A Telos Original

Photographer Abner Cray arrives in Manhattan to begin work on an illustrated book of the city. However he finds that Art, the owner of the flat he is staying in, has gone missing, leaving behind a beguiling and sensuous young lady called Phyllis Pellaprat to whom he's instantly attracted. Soon Abner is deeply involved with Phyllis and is wholly unprepared for the revelation that Art is actually wanted for her murder - an event which took place some time earlier. When Phyllis disappears, Abner wanders the streets, and he sees what appear to be disaffected and strangly acting people everywhere - hailing taxis, selling puppies on street corners, pushing baby carriages, and he starts to suspect ...

This classic novel was first published nearly twenty-five years ago: it's a hypnotic, spooky page-turner that is by turns a terrifying slide into madness and an effective love story.

PRETTY YOUNG THINGS
by Dominic McDonagh

A Telos Original

What's a girl to do these days? If she's not worrying about her makeup or her drop-dead outfit, it's the total lack of anyone hot to pick up at the local nightclub. Someone strong and silent, someone good looking ... someone who might not mind a bit of rough and tumble. And if he ends up being hung in the cellar with the other bloodcalves then that's too bad ... after all, a girl's gotta drink.

Chelsea is a vampire, one of a nest of lesbian rave-bunny vampires, but when the nest picks her ex-boyfriend as their newest food source, she takes matters into her own hands ...

A novella featuring sexy vampire girls, blood, horror, and enough catfights to sate even the most jaded of vampire lovers.

A debut novella from an impressive new talent.

MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF
by Joseph Nassise

A Telos Original

On a bright June morning, Sam Dalton's world suddenly crumbles as he learns that his four-year-old daughter, Jessica, has contracted a mysterious disease. Her internal organs are slowly shutting down, one by one, and her doctors are unable to even pinpoint the cause, never mind find a cure. With weary shakes of their heads, they give her less than a month to live.

A chance meeting with a terrifying bleeding-eyed vagrant offers a despairing Sam a possible solution ... but at what price?

A tale of love and consequences by the author of 'Riverwatch' and 'Heretic'.

PARISH DAMNED
by Lee Thomas

A TELOS ORIGINAL

The sickness was only the beginning of the misery for the residents of Coral Point. Every four years, the disease arrived to claim its victims. Those infected invariably withered, suffered, and, according to local legend, took to the sea in a final attempt at peace.

But things have changed. Something has arrived in the wake of the sickness, and only a lone charter boat captain understands that what now hunts the gulf beyond the reef is far more deadly than anything that the people of Coral Point could imagine.

The waters have become the shelter for a new and lethal species, a dark breed of predator that will not be confined to the waves...

"A master of the "New Southern Gothic", Lee Thomas shows that there are things lurking beneath the surface of us all that are better left alone." PD Cacek

VALLEY OF LIGHTS
by Stephen Gallagher

A TELOS ORIGINAL

A routine call to a sleazy Phoenix hotel throws police sergeant Alex Volchak into a world where the brain-dead check themselves out of hospital, and a stranger can seem to know the most intimate details of his life.

Like his feelings for Loretta, the neighbour who’s more than a friend, and her daughter Georgina, so much the child he never had. Volchak finds himself on the hunt for a child killer, someone who can apparently switch bodies with ease, and who is playing games with the police.

And then Georgina is taken.

ANOTHER WAR
by Simon Mordern

A TELOS ORIGINAL

Another War, by Simon Morden

It starts with a mystery: an old manor house is surrounded by an impenetrable bubble, and all that lives within it seems to wither and die.

Investigating, the Army find two men inside the house: men who vanished some 100 years ago but who have now reappeared, and as young as the day they disappeared.

There are rumours of a machine which could puncture the dimensions, allowing man to travel beyond the bounds of the Earth ... and for other things to travel here.

Another day, another war.

APPROACHING OMEGA
by Eric Brown

A TELOS ORIGINAL

//~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed ...
//~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained ... all lives lost ... hangars 2 and 5 still operational ...
//~Mission parameters adjusted: Augmentation of colonists to commence ...
//~Request all drones and 'bots to medical units to begin experimentation ...

HOUDINI'S LAST ILLUSION
by Steve Savile

A TELOS ORIGINAL

Houdini's Last Illusion, by Steve Savile

Harry Houdini is a haunted man.

Haunted by success; his emotions; and now by some of his compatriots: famed and feted illusionists like himself.

The only problem is that they are dead. Houdini knows that time is running out, and before he is ready to die he must perform one final trick, the greatest illusion of his life...

BREATHE
by Christopher Fowler

A TELOS ORIGINAL

An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre.

All is not well at SymaxCorp.

The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.

It’s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.

As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air...

THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
by George Mann

A TELOS ORIGINAL

Guided by machines from Earth, the colony world of Copernica has become a stable human outpost, a world not dissimilar to Earth itself, with a burgeoning population and culture of its own.

But Rehan Mihajlovic, a dealer in antiquarian goods, is about to find out that history is only as reliable as those who write it, and that death, when it comes, is never very far away...

THE ANGEL INSIDE
by Mike Ripley

FORCE MAJEURE
by Daniel O'Mahony

BLACK TIDE
by Del Stone Jr.

THE LONG, BIG KISS GOODBYE
by Scott Montgomery

A Telos original

TALES OF TERROR - SHROUDED BY DARKNESS
edited by Alison LR Davies

A Telos Original

ANGEL TOUCH
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

ANGEL HUNT
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY
by TM Wright

A Telos Original

PRETTY YOUNG THINGS
by Dominic McDonagh

A Telos Original

MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF
by Joseph Nassise

A Telos Original

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THE ANGEL INSIDE by Mike Ripley

FORCE MAJEURE by Daniel O'Mahony

BLACK TIDE by Del Stone Jr.

THE LONG, BIG KISS GOODBYE by Scott Montgomery

A Telos original

TALES OF TERROR - SHROUDED BY DARKNESS edited by Alison LR Davies A Telos Original

ANGEL TOUCH by Mike Ripley Classic Crime

ANGEL HUNT by Mike Ripley Classic Crime

A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY by TM Wright A Telos Original

PRETTY YOUNG THINGS by Dominic McDonagh A Telos Original

MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF by Joseph Nassise A Telos Original

Home | Websites | Typesetting | Writing

THE ANGEL INSIDE
by Mike Ripley

FORCE MAJEURE
by Daniel O'Mahony

BLACK TIDE
by Del Stone Jr.

THE LONG, BIG KISS GOODBYE
by Scott Montgomery

TALES OF TERROR - SHROUDED BY DARKNESS
edited by Alison LR Davies

A Telos Original

ANGEL TOUCH
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

ANGEL HUNT
by Mike Ripley

Classic Crime

A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY
by TM Wright

A Telos Original

PRETTY YOUNG THINGS
by Dominic McDonagh

A Telos Original

MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF
by Joseph Nassise

A Telos Original