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Nicolas Travers
Welcome. This site offers
eight full length novels and a clutch of other material written over the past few years. I used to
be a financial journalist: now I create people in my mind, and try to picture
what makes them tick, and how they inter-react.
My eight novels are titled Vast, Hunter, Freelance,
Arrogance, The Corporate Executioner, Wild Iris, Grace Willson, and Hardship and Hope,
in the order that I wrote them. (I am launching Grace Willson as a Kindle digital book through Amazon, to enable you to download and keep the complete text. Price will be $4.99 (or the equivalent in pounds or euros).
Vast is the story of a man locked
into a less than happy life who suddenly finds an escape through sexual fantasy
and success. But his escape proves his downfall. I hope it gives you cause for
thought.
Hunter is about a financial
journalist on a crusade. He wants to help expose a political plot by right wing
forces to take power in Britain, but his employer has other targets. Hunter
sees his crusade torpedoed, and his pockets filled with cash as compensation.
But cash cannot replace self-esteem.
Freelance is an adventure. A
journalist flies to Berlin on a press trip, only to find himself entangled in international
power politics that drive him back to Britain, on to New York, and down to the
Bahamas in a series of fast-moving (and sometimes life-threatening) escapades.
Arrogance is a tale of how evil
sows the seeds of its own defeat and destruction. A man who has left his wife
in England to live with a beautiful and wealthy Frenchwoman returns to Britain
when he learns that his wife's new partner has been arrested on the basis of
fabricated evidence. He uncovers the truth and trounces arrogant bureaucracy.
The Corporate Executioner (TCE)
centres on Harry Chapman, a wealthy and successful accountant. A teenage girl
picks him as a sugar daddy, and Harry moves her into his London flat. He helps
mastermind a takeover bid for a company. But the company’s chairman retaliates
by planning murder, Harry’s teenager walks out on him, and a jealous woman
tells Harry’s wife about his infidelity. His life looks like falling
apart, until he meets a woman to fill
his dreams.
Wild Iris and Grace are both set in
Tennessee in the 19th Century, and I owe the original ideas for both
novels and much groundwork to Helen Chapman, a good American friend. Wild Iris
tells of a girl brought up in cruelty and poverty in turn of the century
Tennessee, who is first traded for moonshine whisky, but then meets a good man
and finds her way to happiness.
Grace is the story of a single
woman threatened by male lechery in the aftermath of the American Civil War,
who gathers together a band of companions in similar circumstances. They join
together in a sisterhood under the protection of their chapel, and correspond
with a group of soldiers serving on the Great Plains. The soldiers, led by a
doctor, are demobilised, and Grace and her companions help them combat an
outbreak of scarlet fever. The outbreak brings them all closer together in an
outcome that rewards them all.
Hardship and Hope tells of
Roger Livingstone, a man nearing retirement whose wife dumps him for another
woman, and then plans his ruin. Fortunately a friend introduces Roger to a good
lawyer, and two sisters befriend him. A prosperous antique dealer asks him to
accompany her to Belgium and Roger is enchanted by a woman he meets. But his
wife plots vengeance, and two thugs appear to claim the two sisters.
The short stories
are titled Blind Date, Charity,
Chintz, Daniel, Harrying Harry, Patricia,
Peter, Punctuality, and The Prisoners. The Prisoners and Peter deal with man's
inhumanity towards fellow men, Charity, and Seduction with differing aspects of
sexual temptation and revenge. Punctuality and Blind Date are tales of
foolishness. Patricia is a girl who tries to make good on the streets of LA.
I have also written
a series of stories about a malefactor named Nathaniel, who has lived since
before time, and has the power to kill or seduce with a look, and you can read
these as follows:
Nathaniel dines out, Nathaniel
and the pop star, Nathaniel goes fishing, Nathaniel's split personality, Nathaniel and the majorettes, Nathaniel in show biz, Nathaniel
glitters, Nathaniel tries spying, Nathaniel on the game, Nathaniel
visits Japan, Nathaniel raves, Nathaniel's sting, Nathaniel's
aristo badlad, Nathaniel is compromised, Nathaniel in
judgment, Nathaniel meets Ariel, Nathaniel's moment of revelation, Nathaniel helps a gypsy, Nathaniel
and a spoiled brat, Nathaniel solves a problem,
Nathaniel shafts an art dealer, Nathaniel honeys a trap, Nathaniel
foils a doublecross, Nathaniel busts a cult, Nathaniel bests a Black Queen, Nathaniel's ponyclub, Nathaniel
detects, Nathaniel's rendition, Nathaniel queers a pitch, Nathaniel
meets his match
In addition I have
written a series of 20 tales about a group of kittens called the Mighty Mousers,
who get together in a rather shaky sort of way, but then set out to do good
deeds, and you can read these as follows: The Mighty
Mousers, Timothy, Russell,
Tabitha, The Kittenmaster,
Fluffy, The Invader Bunnies,
Jemima Pussykins, Merlin,
Oliver, Rudi, Poppy, MaxMole, Pike, Edward Tortoise, The Magpies, The Squirrel
Cup, Old Mother Growler, The
picnic, Louise
I suggest that you
read my novels chapter by chapter. I have set them out in alphabetical order,
with the chapters as links below, with each chapter linking back to a previous
chapter and on to the next:
Arrogance 1 Arrogance 2
Arrogance 3 Arrogance 4
Arrogance 5 Arrogance 6
Arrogance 7 Arrogance 8
Arrogance 9 Arrogance
10 Arrogance 11 Arrogance
12 Arrogance 13 Arrogance
14 Arrogance 15 Arrogance
16 Arrogance 17 Arrogance
18 Arrogance 19 Arrogance
20 Arrogance 21 Arrogance
22 Arrogance 23 Arrogance
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Freelance 1 Freelance 2
Freelance 3 Freelance 4
Freelance 5 Freelance 6
Freelance 7 Freelance 8
Freelance 9 Freelance
10 Freelance 11 Freelance 12
Freelance 13 Freelance
14 Freelance15 Freelance
16 Freelance 17 Freelance
18 Freelance 19 Freelance
20 Freelance 21 Freelance
22 Freelance 23 Freelance
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Grace
1 Grace 2 Grace 3 Grace 4 Grace 5 Grace 6 Grace 7 Grace 8 Grace 9 Grace 10 Grace 11 Grace 12 Grace 13 Grace 14 Grace 15 Grace 16 Grace 17 Grace 18 Grace 19 Grace 20 Grace 21 Grace 22 Grace 23 Grace 24 Grace 25 Grace 26 Grace 27 Grace 28 Grace 29 Grace 30 Grace 31 Grace 32 Grace 33 Grace 34 Grace 35 Grace 36 Grace 37 Grace 38 Grace 39 Grace 40 Grace 41 Grace 42 Grace 43 Grace 44 Grace 45 Grace 46 Grace 47 Grace 48 Grace 49 Grace 50 Grace 51 Grace 52 Grace 53 Grace 54 Grace 55 Grace 56 Grace 57 Grace 58 Grace 59 Grace 60 Grace 61
Hardship
1 Hardship 2
Hardship 3 Hardship
4 Hardship 5 Hardship 6
Hardship 7 Hardship 8 Hardship 9 Hardship 10 Hardship 11 Hardship 12 Hardship 13 Hardship 14 Hardship 15 Hardship 16 Hardship 17 Hardship 18 Hardship 19 Hardship 20 Hardship 21 Hardship 22 Hardship 23 Hardship 24 Hardship 25 Hardship 26 Hardship 27 Hardship 28 Hardship 29 Hardship 30 Hardship 31 Hardship 32 Hardship 33 Hardship 34 Hardship 35 Hardship 36 Hardship 37 Hardship 38 Hardship 39 Hardship 40 Hardship 41 Hardship 42
Hunter 1 Hunter 2 Hunter 3 Hunter 4 Hunter 5 Hunter 6 Hunter 7 Hunter 8 Hunter 9 Hunter 10 Hunter 11 Hunter 12 Hunter 13 Hunter 14 Hunter 15 Hunter 16 Hunter 17 Hunter 18 Hunter 19 Hunter 20 Hunter 21 Hunter 22 Hunter 23 Hunter 24
TCE
1 TCE 2 TCE 3 TCE 4 TCE 5 TCE
6 TCE 7 TCE 8 TCE 9 TCE 10 TCE
11 TCE 12 TCE 13 TCE 14 TCE 15 TCE
16 TCE 17 TCE 18 TCE 19 TCE 20 TCE
21 TCE 22 TCE 23 TCE 24
Vast
1 Vast 2 Vast 3 Vast 4 Vast 5 Vast 6 Vast 7 Vast 8 Vast 9 Vast 10 Vast 11 Vast 12 Vast 13 Vast 14 Vast 15 Vast 16 Vast 17 Vast 18 Vast 19 Vast 20 Vast 21 Vast 22 Vast 23 Vast 24
Wild Iris 1 Wild Iris 2 Wild Iris 3 Wild Iris 4 Wild Iris 5 Wild Iris 6 Wild Iris 7 Wild Iris 8 Wild Iris 9 Wild Iris 10
Wild Iris 11 Wild Iris 12
Wild Iris 13 Wild Iris 14
Wild Iris 15 Wild Iris 16
Wild Iris 17 Wild Iris 18
Wild Iris 19 Wild Iris 20
Wild Iris 21 Wild Iris 22
Do let me know what you think of them: I am
not particularly bothered whether you like what I write or not, but it is nice
to know that someone has been interested. You might also be curious to know
what kind of man I am. I have led a chequered life as a journalist in Britain
and, briefly in South Africa. I have travelled the world. Now I am retired – I
write and collect coins, and listen to a great deal of Classical music.
Finally a
disclaimer, a warning, and a reminder. None of the characters in anything I
have written bears, or is intended to bear, any resemblance to a living
person.. I have also described sexual intercourse in my writing, so please read
no further if you find such description unpleasant. Please also remember that I
own the copyright for everything in this site.