Books published by publisher M.J. Chapman*

The year is 2113. Britain has spent the last fifteen years recovering from a half century long war with mainland Europe; a war that desolated and destroyed unrelentingly; a war that tortured and took unforgivingly; a war that exacted mass bloodshed indiscriminately.Everybody lost something… for too many it was their life.But that was then, and this is now. Things are getting better. The country’s prospects are looking up. Hope is beginning to be restored. Those who were lucky enough to survive the conflict, while forever burdened by the memories of the past, at least can look forward to a future full of promise.Britain has re-emerged from the ashes like a phoenix and has somehow established itself once again as one of the world’s leading superpowers. Crime is down, health and wellbeing are up, and people are just about starting to smile again. And it is all thanks, predominately, to the entrepreneurial exploits of one man; Robert Stone.…..Fast forward nearly eighteen years and the picture is very different. The population is on edge again. Fear lingers in the air like a foul smell once more. The Death Penalty has been reintroduced. Punishment can be passed down to future generations. The hope that had been denied people for so long has once again slipped away like water through a sieve, and the echoes of unrest have spread to all four corners of the globe like a plague.Something happened. Something really, really terrible happened. And the whole world knows that there is only one person alive who is to blame.So, is there any wonder that this journalist is so desperate to meet Alex Gunn?

Jo, Mick, Phil and Gabby live in a small rural town in wartime southern Ireland. Making their own fun usually leads them into tricky and humorous situations, but after animals start dying in mysterious circumstances they know something dangerous is lurking in their midst. When Gabby is suddenly kidnapped, the children are thrust into the biggest adventure of their lives. How will they deal with bullies, ghosts and a wild beast? Terrifying events force the children to face up to their own biggest fears and test their courage and loyalty to the limit.Laced with humour, horror and heart, Those Crowley Kids is an adventure story for 9–12-year-olds.

Plagues kill in more ways than one. Merliss is no ordinary cat. She's far more. She's a young girl's spirit trapped in a cat's body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her human speech, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now, a bleeding sickness has thrown the community into chaos. The cunning man and his apprentice are in danger from the disease. The life Merliss has worked so long to build is in jeopardy. Before she entered the cat, she had trained to be a shaman. Do her centuries of experience hold a secret to a cure? But disease isn't her only nemesis. A pair of malevolent creatures move into the neighborhood, threatening more havoc. Merliss and her cunning partners face more challenges than they can handle. But the greatest threat to Merliss' survival may be the ignorance of terrified people looking for a scapegoat. The Great Contagion is epic fantasy from a cat's eye view. A prequel to Cat Sidhe, The Great Contagion is a stand-alone installment in The Merliss Tales series. Prowl with Merliss now.

A human spirit banished to the body of a cat. Merliss has seen centuries of change, centuries of trouble. Something nasty has come through one of the ley gates. It walks upright. It talks. And it looks like an oversized cat, but as Merliss can attest, it doesn't smell like a cat. It's a cat sidhe on the hunt for slaves, anyone with opposable thumbs. Merliss travels to unknown territories to rescue a friend and encounters more trouble making her way home. The situation on the moors is far more dire than Merliss and her friends could have imagined. Cat Sidhe is the first in a fantasy trilogy. Join Merliss on her prowls through dangerous lands.

"With each passing second, I felt my heart pound more rapidly and forcibly in my chest. My head was instructing me to switch off the computer and walk away, reminding me over and over again that there was no chance that this could ever end the way that I wanted it to. But my palpitating heart wouldn't let me leave. Contrary to the fight or flight fuelled adrenaline it was pumping around my body, it knew that I had no choice but to stick around and see this out. As impossible as it may appear, there was the slimmest of chances that it might be worth it? In fact, I'd go so far as to give it a 2% chance; 1.5% that she'd actually be online, and 0.5% that she'd actually want to talk to me. What is there to lose... right?"Anyone who grew up in the early 00's will know just how intrinsic MSN Messenger was to their social life. It was basically Social Media before Social Media was cool. You know how it used to work; you got home, threw your school stuff to one side, fired up the family PC, waited about 20 long, agonising minutes for everything to load up, and then there you go, all your friends, all in one place; evening sorted! And all the while your parents would sit there on the sofa, watching you throw away the best years of your life as you stare zombie-like into the glowing box in front of you for hours on end, and worrying that this ritual that you have become addicted to is slowly going to destroy your abilities to concentrate, conversate and interact/socialise with the real world around you (things really haven't changed much in the last 20 years, have they?)The Daniel Kenny Diaries is the candid account of a socially anxious, socially awkward teenage boy and his journey through the murky and more often perilous waters that were the dawn of the instant messaging era; a journey that would become all the more confusing and uncertain the day that Jess Richardson came online.