Adrian J Walker, author

In the throes of a mid-life crisis, 40-something father Adam moves his family from the stresses of London life to a remote French farmhouse. Awaiting the arrival of his wife and daughter, Adam endures the idiosyncrasies of an old house with his father, who suffers from dementia, and his son, a victim of bullying.

But when a storm leaves them isolated from the small, rural community, Adam's hope for blissful isolation turns to terror. The house is not what he thought it was, and the longer they spend within its walls, the further things seem to drift from reality.

TV host and London playboy Elliot Childs has a secret. He can see into the mind of everyone he meets - a useful ability when you're job is to destroy celebrities on live television.

But when he stumbles upon a hundred-year-old photograph in which he sees himself as a boy, Elliot's gift spirals out of control.

His only hope of retaining his sanity lies in the hands of a group of misfits who claim to have lived before...and who know Elliot very well.

Can Elliot discover the secret of the photograph, and of who he really is, before he loses his mind forever?

WELCOME TO LEAFEN! 

With our vibrant office centre, magnificent skyline and temperate climate (thanks to a state-of-the-art Fabrik perimeter), you'll soon see why we're one of the most desirable corporations in which to live today. Just ask our colour-coded workforce - 40 million smiles can't be wrong!

**MESSAGE COURTESY OF THE LEAFEN CORPORATION TOURIST BOARD** 

Times are changing. There is unrest in the east. The Arctic oil conflict is getting worse. Guerrilla Startups are everywhere. In a world where even The Market (the vast, mysterious AI system worshiped the world over) cannot predict what will happen next, Leafen needs all the friends it can get. 

Executive Class Double Red Steve Manager is about to close a deal that will bring his corporation a powerful ally. But something is wrong. The death of an old friend has brought back painful memories that are telling him, for some reason, to stop. April Knight is a limo driver. By day she taxis high-flyers and dignitaries around the corporation she's lived in all her life. But by night she dreams of breaking through Leafen's Fabrik to see what lies beyond The Hordes, and discover the truth about where she comes from. For Blue-Yellow Demetri Trittek things are a little simpler. A third-level programmer with coding in his blood, all he wants is a quiet life; to take his seat and do his job, just like his father. 

But when Leafen is attacked by a ruthless defence corporation, its employees find themselves compromised by a mysterious force. Steve, Demetri, and April are about to discover that, in a world where nations are just distant memories and your Colours define you for life, things don't stack up quite the way they once thought.

The eagerly awaited follow up to Colours.

The final part in the much loved Earth Incorporated trilogy.

In the near future, a young man seeks adventure in the French Alps. Lost, feverish and caught in a freak snowstorm, he finds refuge in a lonely mountain farm where he stumbles upon a young girl’s diary from eighty years before. Claudette tells of farm life disrupted by a blizzard and the arrival of a stranger with a terrible injury. With her father sick, the eight-year-old chronicles her struggle to look after the farm, and its unwanted guest, alone.

In present-day London, Joseph Martin has screwed up. Once he was a lethal assassin, the best gun-for-hire. Now, in his autumn years, even he admits he is losing it. His failing skills have landed him in trouble with a dangerous client. Only the successful completion of an eerily familiar mission can save his skin; a mission which takes him into deepest Asia, where he must face a past he has long tried to forget.

He’s not the only one on the road in Asia. London city boy Ashley Gritten is travelling. Shedding the challenges of his privileged life in Kensington, he’s off to ‘find himself’ in the drugs, girls and debauchery of the backpacker trail. But something else finds him. Something much, much worse.

Who would have thought a rich kid and an ageing hitman would have so much in common? And what does all of this have to do with Elmo, a pianist on his deathbed in Venice?

A dark and humorous story of how selves are lost and lives are found.

A teenage boy from a broken home in Houston kidnaps his younger sister, a savant with remarkable abilities, and crosses America to enter her in a maths olympiad.

The Earth was dying, and only the Erta could save it. Created to be genetically superior, hyper-intelligent and unburdened by human emotions, they succeeded by removing the cause: humans.

Now the Erta are faced with a dilemma—if they reintroduce the rebellious and violent Homo sapiens, all of their work could be undone. They decide to raise one child: a sole human to decide if we should again inherit the Earth. 

But the quiet and clinical Ima finds that there is more to raising a human than she had expected, and there is more to humanity’s history than she has been told.

'A real find' STEPHEN KING

When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts.

No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. 550 miles away from his family, he must push himself to the very limit to get back to them, or risk losing them forever...

His best option is to run.

But what if your best isn’t good enough?

The Number One race-against-time bestseller as featured on Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 Book Club

In THE END OF THE WORLD RUNNING CLUB, Edgar Hill ran 550 miles after an apocalypse to try and find his family.

He had it easy.

This is his wife’s story.

Beth Hill has survived the apocalypse with a baby and toddler in tow. And what’s more she’s done it alone - without her husband’s help. He’s never been any help. But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids, she knows what she has to do.

The new world might be very different: no government, no law, no infrastructure and a whole lot more ocean than there used to be. But one thing hasn’t changed - the lengths a mother will go to save her family...

Every dog has its day…

And for Lineker, a happy-go-lucky mongrel from Peckham, the day the world ends is his: finally, a chance to prove to his owner just how loyal he can be.

Reg, an agoraphobic writer with an obsession for nineties football, plans to wait out the impending doom in his second-floor flat, hiding himself away from the riots outside.

But when an abandoned orphan shows up in the stairwell of their building, Reg and Lineker must brave the outside to save not only the child but themselves…

An old woman finds herself stranded by a strange tide. The more the water rises, the more her memories seem to fade.

As a global catastrophe looms, a young mother in a London council block tries to protect her daughter from the truth.

A world weary wagon driver is given a chance to clear his debts by carrying a prisoner across the desert for execution. But the cargo is not what he expected.

in the dead of winter, a young girl ventures into the forest with her trusty dog, in search of her father. But she finds something else entirely.

A short fantasy novel suitable for children aged 8-12.

In 2018, indie publisher Storgy launched their Shallow Creek short story competition. Every entrant was given a prompt - and by prompt I mean the most inventive and creative set of documents, maps and character backstories I've ever seen. Every story was to be written in the fictional town of Shallow Creek, an eerie place somewhere between Castle Rock, Maine and Twin Peaks. My character was John Hamilton, a middle-aged sherrif with a background as murky as Shallow Creek itself.

It was great fun to write, and the story made it into the compilation book, which you can buy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SHALLOW-CREEK-STORGY-BOOKS-ebook/dp/B07PVPW9SD