This Year's Releases

This year's seen the release of two novels from Sea Lion Press: a Cold War spy thriller in a world with a Nazi detente, and a political history in a world where Obama's time in office is delayed by twenty years. Both are still available now and in Funny Money's case, in paperback too!

Funny Money

David Brook, ex-RAF, now British intelligence, faces a conspiracy that could ruin Britain.

A British intelligence officer looking for counterfeit money.

A mysterious French-Algeria with links to extremists in Egypt.

A brilliant communications clerk with a knack for codes.

In the summer of 1948, few tears are shed outside Germany when Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, dies whilst attending a League of Nations meeting in Geneva. However, his replacement, eager to please Chancellor Heydrich, dusts off an old plan to attack British interests in Egypt. When British learn of the plan to flood the country with counterfeit money, David Brook is sent to Alexandria to disrupt the operation before it can cause too much damage.

Years after his last visit to Egypt, Brook finds growing anti-British sentiment. The imminent closure of the Suez Canal to allow HMS Ark Royal, the newest, largest aircraft carrier in the Royal Navy, to transit is a convenient excuse for protest. Is the mysterious French-Algeria refugee fleeing the Nazi aligned French State government in Algiers quite what he seems?

With the help of the local police chief, a lowly port official, and Grace Rigby, a smart communications clerk from the local consulate, Brook begins to fear more is at stake than fake money…

(Buy on Amazon, other markets, and in paperback)

The Tenacity of Hope

In the history we know, Barack Obama stunned the world with his meteoric rise to power, short-circuiting a Democratic Party establishment which had seemingly predetermined Hillary Clinton as its next candidate. Not only was the charismatic Obama the United States’ first black president, but at time of writing he is also the only president to have been born in any decade later than the 1940s.

But what if Obama’s political career had been more like that of Joe Biden? What if his early presidential ambitions had been frustrated, only for him to finally enter the White House in old age after a long Senate career?

In “The Tenacity of Hope”, Tom Anderson explores a world subtly different from our own. Without Obama’s example inspiring young and diverse Americans to enter politics, without his drive to reform healthcare and the Republican reaction against him across many formerly ‘blue’ states, how would America and the world have developed differently? From the 2010s Project Constellation moon landing to 2030s Hallmark Christmas movies in 3D virtual reality, enter a world without ‘change we can believe in’…

(Buy on Amazon)