Peculiar Lives

by Philip Purser-Hallard

A Telos Original

"From the pen of Mr Erik Clevedon, Peculiar Lives is another 'scientific romance' along the lines of The Coming Times and The Star Beasts. Exotic colour is added by the character of an American Negro detective, Honoré Lechasseur, and his delightful English companion Miss Blandish."

Once a celebrated author of 'scientific romances', Erik Clevedon is an old man now. But his fiction conceals a dangerous truth, as Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish discover after a chance encounter with a strangely gifted young pickpocket. Born between the Wars, the superhuman children known as ‘the Peculiar’ are reaching adulthood – and they believe that humanity is making a poor job of looking after the world they plan to inherit...

Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction... original adventures in time and space.

Background information:

Telos Publishing presents the seventh in our series of original novella format books following the adventures in Time and Space of Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish. Peculiar Lives is written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

The book is available in two superb editions: a standard paperback; and a signed and numbered limited edition deluxe hardback. The paperback features a specially comissioned cover.

All copies of the limited edition deluxe version come individually signed by the author.

Further details:

Peculiar Lives was published in July 2005 (December 2005 in USA/Canada) and is available as an A5 paperback @ £7.99 and as a signed and numbered deluxe hardback edition @ £25.00.

The novella is available for ordering, details of subscription deals are also available.

Also see our ordering page for information on the new Reeltime Pictures drama, Daemos Rising, written by David J Howe and inspired by the Time Hunter range of books, and the classic Doctor Who story The Daemons.

Published 21 July 2005 in paperback and hardback (UK)