Alan Fleet Knihy

A Time to Reflect: King of the River. A Time to Choose: Giri. A Time to Act: A Good Slap. A Time to Remember: Castle of the Rock. A Time to Be: Your Mind, Your Body.

Most people think the offshore oil industry starts and ends with rigs: it doesn't. Long before the exploration rigs ever go on site, marine surveys have to be carried out, and crews from the four-corners of the globe come together to get these done. When I graduated with a degree in Geology in the seventies I didn't know what sort of career beckoned but I did know I never wanted a 'proper job' of nine-to-five, forty-eight weeks of the year until retirement. Forget that, I wanted surfing in the Caribbean, caipirhinas in Rio, and satay in Singapore. Marine geophysics offered them all, along with the wilds of West Africa, sunless Sakhalin and the awesome Atlantic Frontiers. Different countries, different crews and different problems; nothing was ever the same, and after thirty-three years I never cease to be amazed at what comes up next. It's all out there, and it's waiting. Don't just have a gap year of travel, have a lifetime of it.All of the stories are true, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty, and do see if you can spot 'Older Geo', because based on his review, he must certainly have spotted himself.

Ella, a young DPhil student researching pagan traditions at Oxford, discovers a concealed cryptic message linking an obscure island to a Punch and Judy show and the dance of the crows. Upon further investigation Ella finds that visitors to the island are strictly vetted and in order to visit she must lie about her true intentions. Her tutor, Andrew, disheartened from years of fruitless endeavour, agrees to collude with her and their successful deception gains them access. But once on the island are they truly ready for what they will find?

If you had the chance to sit with your father one last time, knowing that in the morning he would be dead, would you take it, and if you did, what would you say? For Joe that night has come, but is it just too late? Told in flashback from the present day their story evolves against a backdrop of division and prejudice in a small Cheshire town where even the river divided the pre-war generation at birth. Add to this chapel versus church, grammar against secondary schooling, and you wonder what could make it any worse. Enter the Scousers; relocated as part of the urban clearances in Liverpool, seeking a new life and new opportunities they came in their thousands, thinking that the local Woollybacks would welcome them with open arms. They had no idea what they were heading for. Woollyback is a story of love, loss and lack of acceptance, but at its core is the extremely emotive, contemporary issue of assisted death.

A former astral spy and aikido expert must recover his lost abilities in order to rescue his daughter from her prison in the ether and take his revenge for the death of his wife on the former colleague who betrayed him.

Aldred Grayson built Britannia Surveys when North Sea oil was in its infancy, and now, as the last of the true independents, is fighting against hostile takeovers from western European companies backed by their anti-British to survive he buys into the world of industrial sabotage. From the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Frontiers to West Africa and Vietnam his gamble pays off, yet when the wrong person dies events are set in motion that he could not have foreseen. Only the framing of an innocent man tips the scales, bringing Aldred the ally he so desperately needs. But beware; he who rides a tiger may never dismount.