Jonathan J. Davies
Stories about people for people who like people.
somewhen - book 1
Charlie Turner opens a door in London and finds herself stranded aboard a starship outside time.Back on Earth, her aunt Michelle is trying to find out where she went.Unfortunately, they’re both running out of time.
What am I working on?
I’m writing my first novel.I have always been in love with stories, both reading and writing. This time, the plan is to finish this one properly, see if anybody wants to publish it, and then write another. And so on.I’m mostly interested in ordinary people finding themselves in impossible situations and having to work out what to do next. Sometimes there’s science involved. Things tend to get out of hand.
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About Jonathan J. Davies
Hello, I’m Jonathan.I’m originally from the south of England and live in County Wicklow, Ireland.For most of my working life I’ve been around technology, complicated organisations, and people trying to make sensible decisions while things go wrong. I have also always been fascinated by the art of story-telling, and how you can take people on a journey with you, just with words.Apparently that was useful preparation for writing science fiction.I’ve always loved stories, particularly science fiction and fantasy - if it has a map inside the first page, or a spaceship on the cover, I'll read it - but the bit that interests me most has never really been the spaceships, time machines, dragons or magic - they are cool, of course. But the real story is the people stuck in the middle of them.Somewhen is my first novel. I’m finishing it now, and once it’s ready I’m going to see whether I can persuade somebody to publish it.
Somewhen - Book 1
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A speculative science-fiction novel - COMING SOONCharlie Turner wasn't trying to travel through time. She was trying to open a locked door.Instead, she finds herself aboard the Zeus, a vast starship stranded in a region outside normal time. Its passengers have been arriving from different centuries for years: scientists, pilots and researchers whose experiments all went wrong in remarkably similar ways. Nobody knows how to get home.Back in present-day London, Charlie's aunt Michelle refuses to accept that she has simply disappeared. Her investigation leads from a missing scientist to a research company with secrets stretching far further into the past than they should.As Charlie searches for a way back and Michelle searches for her, both begin to uncover the same problem from opposite ends of history.Something is wrong with time.And it is getting worse.Somewhen is a character-driven science-fiction thriller about time travel, friendship, loss, and what ordinary people do when the impossible becomes their problem.