Peter Glassborow
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
Skills:
Branch:
Auckland
Location:
Auckland
Publications:
The Gray Stories
Nine stories of the paranormal. Ghosts and witches, actual magic and telekinetic powers, haunting and premonitions, a little girl’s a ghostly friend and a man who exorcises a ghost with a power tool.
Franchise
In the year 2221 New Zealander Jack Rakai, his wife, three children and sundry alien pets have a franchise to service and stock the massive vending machines that are found in every refuelling station and space port in the galaxy. Seeking only to escape an overcrowded Earth and make money Jack is ill prepared when he becomes involved in simultaneous attempts to take over a spaceport by human and alien terrorists. Intrigue within both terrorist groups and calls to remain loyal to Earth’s interests pull Jack in all directions, when all he really wants to do is keep his family safe.
The Sea Soldier Series
Thousands of years ago a terrible war rages for decades between a city state and a coalition of five nations. The city’s army frequently defeats its enemies in land battles. However the city’s navy is struggling against a naval blockade. Philip was born the son of a farmer, but being a soldier brings him the adventure he craves. Leaving his family and farm he enlists as a marine on a fighting galley. Pitched into terrible sea battles he could die from drowning as easily as from an enemy sword. Through the trilogy Philip fights in many sea battles, as well as land campaigns. He is soon a famous fighter, constantly rising in rank in an endless war. His fame brings him fortune and draws him into the ranks of the ruling elite, and their women.
The Flying Man
He has discovered the secret of telekinesis, to float and fly like a bird by only using his mind. But he does not want to be labelled as a freak so only flies at night, when he thinks he can’t be seen. Like many with a great power he begins to abuse it, first by playing practical tricks and then by using violence against those he hates. While he thinks he is unseen there is a reporter, keen for the scoop of a lifetime, who is tracking down the man who can fly.As the reporter digs deeper to ferret out his secret, there are those still hidden who want the Flying Man for their own reasons.
Tyme out of Mind
When he was eight Derek’s twin sister fell to her death from the cliffs where their house was perched. Shortly after his father took him away and he never saw his mother again. Now with the death of his mother Derek inherits the old house on the cliffs, which has an overgrown garden and a protective flock of magpies. Soon strange markings are left on the door and in the sand on the beach. Derek finds old photo albums of naked people which suggest strange events happened there. Strangers visit telling him about his mother and her powers. He is soon drawn into their unnatural ways until he is warned about the truth surrounding his sister’s death, and these peoples’ evil intentions towards him.
A Fateful Legacy
New Zealander John inherits a great fortune from a distant relative. The fortune includes three properties. The Scottish farm where a terrible feud ended centuries before, a bizarre Victorian country house built a mad man, and an apartment block in an exclusive London suburb where a man tried to make a pact with the devil. Kathryn is appointed to help John by his lawyers. She has the power to see ghosts from different eras that still haunt these three places. They discover that in each young lovers were cruelly treated, and lost their lives leaving their spirits behind. There is a theory that the lovers in all the houses were the same lovers, constantly reincarnated over centuries. John and Kathryn’s fate seems linked to these past lives. For their love to succeed where the others failed they must reunite the earthly remains of these earlier lovers so their spirits can settle