MIKE MANNION
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I write novels that are accessible, fun and full of vibrant characters. Here is the place for all the latest news, facts, trivia, character profiles, secrets and revelations about all my books.
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Young Adult Fantasy Series
Coming Soon!
The Septimus Knights Adventures is set in the Marches, a wild borderland between England and Wales - a dangerous place, full of lawlessness, Welsh clans, armed English Lords and castles that are constantly changing hands.
It’s an exciting and fun series about the lives of a group of young people caught up in the troubles of the times. It deals with epic quests of high adventure, terrible danger and imminent war; but is also about teenage love, family troubles, tender friendships and life’s trials and tribulations.
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​THE ROGUES OF JACKDAW ALLEY
FIRST BOOK OF THE SERIES!
A HEART-STOPPING TALE OF FAMILY, WAR AND YOUNG LOVE.
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When Jo Potterson, a strong-armed English girl, hears that the town she grew up in has been plunged into the middle of a brutal war, she decides to leave her dissolute London life and travel home to see what’s going on. How are her family and friends? Do they live, or have they been slain, tortured, or murdered in their beds?
When Jo gets to Mold, she finds things much worse than she’d feared. Welsh wildman warriors are wandering about like they own the place, threatening people and abducting the district’s young men, including all her friends from her childhood gang – the Alley Boys. Her parents are glad to see her but are dying of starvation – the Welsh having taken the harvest.
Jo is so angry that she vows to get food for her family, find her friends, and kick out the Welsh invaders – not knowing that her life is about to take a very strange and unexpected turn, one that will make her already difficult quest virtually impossible.
A SPELLBINDING TALE OF ROMANCE, MAGIC AND DARK SECRETS!
Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy
The Ravensmere Trilogy is full of wonderful humour, yearning romance, spooky manor houses, bikers, secret societies, creepy churches, student high-jinks, campervan travels and ancient lurking evil...
Step back in time, not too far really, to the early 1970’s, a world very different from our own. There are no mobile phones, no laptops, no social media, not even a sniff of the internet, but what is there, and in spades, is mystery, magic, secret societies, witches, warlocks and the weirdest thing of all – a creature called Arddhu Og that invades the mind with her own fearful agenda. Ravensmere is a university town that seems like any normal place on arrival, but as you get to know it you soon realise all is not what it seems…
A CURIOUS CHEMISTRY
COMIC NOVEL ABOUT ECO-WARRIORS, BIKERS AND LEATHER BARS.
Comic Fiction
​Ned Smallwood is a young man who has no luck with women. He lives in Shingle Point – a dilapidated coastal town poisoned by toxic chemicals from the high unstable chemical plant nearby. His life is transformed when he meets Julia, a beautiful and highly idealistic girl who turns out to be an extreme radial socialist. Ned can’t help but fall in love, will do anything for Julia, but finds himself being dragged into the group’s dangerous and highly illegal activities.
MORFUDD'S REVENGE
DARKLY HUMOROUS NOVEL WITH MURDER, MADNESS AND ART.
Darkly Comic Urban Fantasy
Dare you enter the mind of Morfudd Pickles? He's a sad and lonely student at Saint Peter's Art college who's been picked on and bullied his whole Life. When he meets Mister Jollytoes he decides he's going to sharpen his hunting knife and go on a murderous spree of vengeance. A jelly-spined victim no more!
HOG HEAVEN​
A CLASSIC COMIC NOVEL WITH CHEFS AND HARD-CORE ANIMAL LIBERATIONISTS.
Comic Fiction
Harry Harrington is a highly successful celebrity chef, driven hard by his ruthlessly ambitious wife Tabatha. When he cracks under the strain and starts an affair with a lusty young animal liberationist called Lucy, Tabatha plots a dark revenge. My comic novel spoofs the fast food industry, celebrity chefs, GM and vegan foods.
Mike Mannion's books are well plotted with characters that leap off the page.
Colin Barnsley - Author of the musical Atlantis.
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Certainly knows how to keep you hooked. Bill Blackthorne is a definite page-turner.
Chris Tunstall - Book reviewer and author of Guardian of the One.
