‘Life is an adventure no one escapes alive‘
The Great Year
You know the date the world ends, but should you tell anyone?
Public relations expert Paul Seagrove believes there’s no price too high to pay for good publicity. It’s a belief that’s about to be challenged when he is summoned to Wilsthorpe Hall, the former home of the legendary 1930s archaeologist Dr. James Humphreys. His body was discovered there next to the cursed ‘Medusa Coffin’. Decades later, the mystery surrounding Humphreys’ death lingers over the house. What did he uncover inside the coffin? Why did his frozen corpse resemble an ancient marble statue?
Paul’s new client plans to turn the house into a controversial ‘History Parc’ and the tabloids are in uproar. To sway public opinion, Paul swallows his scepticism and invites the team from a popular ghost-hunting TV show for a night of paranormal sleuthing. Events culminate in a dramatic confrontation at Wilsthorpe Hall, where the past and present collide, and the Medusa Coffin’s earth-shattering secret is revealed. It’s Paul’s biggest story ever but, even if he lives to tell the tale, should he?
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‘The Dodo Tree’
The prequel to ‘The Great Year’
In Mauritius, the honeymoon’s over. Beleaguered PR consultant Paul Seagrove has had a seemingly great idea: if his new client, a GM food company, can use its expertise to save the doomed Dodo Tree its tattered reputation will be transformed. The snag is that only the ill-fated dodo could germinate the tree’s seeds, and now that inept bird is extinct. It will mean travelling to the honeymoon island of Mauritius, ironic given the state of Paul’s love life.
Paul’s obsessive research into the story of the flightless dodo takes off when he unearths a forgotten 200-year old diary written by Marie Leger, spirited daughter of Napoleon’s Prefect of Mauritius. Their diaries reveal how both Marie and Paul launch into relationships every bit as fatally dependent as that of the Dodo Tree and the dodo. Will they share the fate of the dodo tree or can they, and the tree itself, be saved?
About the author
David Jinks
David was previously an award-winning journalist and magazine Editor before, like his protagonist, Paul Seagrove, turning to the Dark Side: Public Relations. After being cursed by a witch – a true story he will tell anyone who buys him a drink – P.R. seemed a better paid and safer career.
David is also a history buff and a Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute. His novels mix his love of the past with a modern twist.
David currently lives near Oxford with his wife, a former movie critic, and they have a son who is currently ‘resting’ between jobs after uni.
David Jinks 