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SIMON MAYO
“The most exquisite story of heroism, deception, love and treachery you’ll find this year.”
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LEE CHILD
“…a beautifully imagined, beautifully written, smart, sophisticated – but fiercely suspenseful – thriller.”
MICK HERRON
COMING MAY 2024
Any Human Power
Dream deeply. Rise up strong. Change is coming.
The visionary new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott
How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind?
From acclaimed author Manda Scott comes a visionary thriller of a lifetime. As Lan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later her teenage granddaughter is caught up in an international storm of outrage that unleashes the rage of a whole, failed generation. For one shining fragment of time, the world is with her. But then the backlash begins, and soon she and her family are besieged by the press, facing the all-powerful wrath of the old establishment whose only understanding is power-over, not power-with.
Watching over the growing chaos is Lan, who taught them all to think independently, approach power sceptically and dream with clear intent. She knows that more than one generation’s hopes are on the line.
Weaving together myth, technology and radical compassion, this visionary novel breaks apart all we know of life, death and the routes to hope, asking us all to dream deeply and act boldly.
My New Novel: Mapping the ways to a future we’d be proud to leave behind
The book…if I hadn’t spent nearly three years hosting the podcast and talking to people about exactly these ideas, I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start. Even so, the journey has taken me to places, and ways of being, I’d never encountered before.
FREE STORY
A FREE short story prequel to the novel A Treachery of Spies introducing one of the Resistance assassination teams in Paris in World War Two.
She’s a nurse. She’s also a killer – and she’s good at it. But what happens when her team is betrayed and she’s the only one to get clear?
PRIZE WINNING
A TREACHERY OF SPIES
Tracking down her murderer leads police inspector Inès Picaut back to 1940s France where the men and women of the Resistance were engaged in a desperate fight for survival against the Nazi invaders.
A story of murder, betrayal and a passion that will shape a life.
And a death.
LATEST NEWS – A Treachery of spies is one of the times top ten thrillers of the decade: link here
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Accidental Gods PODCAST
We have the power of gods to destroy our home, but we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine, and by doing so, to transform the nature of ourselves – and all humanity.
Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program exploring how we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations to come.
The Thrutopia Masterclass
Imagine a future where our great grandchildren look back and say, ‘We’re here now, living lives we love, because they took the risk to change the way things worked.’
But Utopias that we don’t believe in can’t help us. We need stories that lay out a path from here to a future we’d be proud to leave to our the coming generations.
We need Thrutopias…
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
PODCASTER & TEACHER
COMING MAY 2024
Any Human Power
Dream deeply. Rise up strong. Change is coming … the visionary new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott
How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind?
From acclaimed author Manda Scott comes a visionary thriller of a lifetime. As Lan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later her teenage granddaughter is caught up in an international storm of outrage that unleashes the rage of a whole, failed generation. For one shining fragment of time, the world is with her. But then the backlash begins, and soon she and her family are besieged by the press, facing the all-powerful wrath of the old establishment whose only understanding is power-over, not power-with.
Watching over the growing chaos is Lan, who taught them all to think independently, approach power sceptically and dream with clear intent. She knows that more than one generation’s hopes are on the line.
Weaving together myth, technology and radical compassion, this visionary novel breaks apart all we know of life, death and the routes to hope, asking us all to dream deeply and act boldly.
My New Novel: Mapping the ways to a future we’d be proud to leave behind
The book…if I hadn’t spent nearly three years hosting the podcast and talking to people about exactly these ideas, I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start. Even so, the journey has taken me to places, and ways of being, I’d never encountered before.
MY LATEST PRIZE WINNING SPY THRILLER
A TREACHERY OF SPIES
Tracking down her murderer leads police inspector Inès Picaut back to 1940s France where the men and women of the Resistance were engaged in a desperate fight for survival against the Nazi invaders.
A story of murder, betrayal and a passion that will shape a life.
And a death.
LATEST NEWS – A Treachery of spies is one of the times top ten thrillers of the decade: link here
MY OTHER PROJECTS
Accidental Gods Podcast
We have the power of gods to destroy our home, but we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine, and by doing so, to transform the nature of ourselves – and all humanity.
Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program exploring how we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations to come.
The Thrutopia Masterclass
Imagine a future where our great grandchildren look back and say, ‘We’re here now, living lives we love, because they took the risk to change the way things worked.’
But Utopias that we don’t believe in can’t help us. We need stories that lay out a path from here to a future we’d be proud to leave to our the coming generations.
We need Thrutopias…
FREE SHORT STORY
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JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
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“The new Mary Renault”
LUCID DREAMING: ANCIENT SKILL OR MODERN FAD?
Everyone dreams: not everyone dreams lucidly, but it’s there for those who want to step into a world (many worlds) where anything is possible. Here is the gateway to all possible futures, and the answers, if we persist, to all possible questions.
THE CELTS, WOMEN & SEX
“We consort openly with the best of men. You allow yourselves to be debauched in secret by the vilest.” – so said the consort of the Gaulish king to Julia Augustus, wife of the Emperor to the Roman Empress who cast aspersions on her morals. Celtic women were far more empowered than their Roman counterparts – and we’ve barely got back to what our ancestors took as their right.
BREAKING THE LEGACY OF ROME
THE OLD GODS &THE NEW
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THE ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA
“All historical novels should be this good”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE
“It is so well written that its world of prescient dreamers and fearless warriors lingers in the imagination long after the final page”
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