Barry Tighe
Biography
Over two thousand years ago the Romans came, saw and conquered Britain.
They stayed for a few hundred years, give or take, until rising Villa
prices, the ferociousness of the local lions and the quality of home brewed
wine convinced them to take all roads back to Rome.
No Romans remained. Britain, both sides of Hadrian's Wall, became a
Roman-free zone.
Except....
There was one little town where the Roman bugle-song anthem of retreat,
'Legitus Quickitus', was not heard. One town where the Romans and the
locals, ears full of soap, were so busy splashing around together they
missed the thunder of the departing last night chariots of fire. And as
there were no cabs due for another 15 hundred years - and that's if you
believe the cab office - the town's Romans decided to stay.
The town grew, thriving on the naturally occurring spa waters, nurtured by
the river Fons and hardened by the combination of original Brits and Roman
bath lovers. The last bastion of the Roman Empire, it is now a mighty town
indeed.
The town's name? Spawater, home of the legendary Spawater Baths.
The Spawater Chronicles are the tales of its citizens, and how they take on
the world and win.
I am not a Roman, though I have met a few, and was not born in Spawater.
I discovered the ancient town by accident after falling asleep on a train from Paddington.
Noting how people were paid in cash for painting themselves silver and standing stock-still in the town centre, I decided
that such a career in Spawater amongst the Romans was far more interesting than my previous life as an information technology instructor.
Accordingly I joined the Spawater Gladiators' supporters club, bought a
toga and told the boss what he could do with his IT job.
And I've been a loyal Spawaterian ever since. Why not join me!
Interests.
Supporting the lions. Chariot racing. Amphitheatre. Hiding from Boudica. Laughing at barbarians. sailing on aqueducts.
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Books
Gieves to the Fore
by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 90020 words.
Published by Can Write Will Write on May 18, 2010. Fiction.
Aunt Dahlia rues the day she sold Milady’s Boudoir. Gussie Fink-Nottle regrets deserting his fiancée Madeline in a moment of vegetarianism. So does heavily-armed Pop Stoker. Madeline has qualms about accepting Spode’s marriage proposal. When Bertie is baffled, there is only one thing to be done. Press the buzzer and bring Gieves to the Fore.
Casino
by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 114820 words.
Published by Can Write Will Write on May 17, 2010. Fiction.
Spawater council intends to purchase the Lifeboat club for a derisory few chips and replace it with a government-approved supercasino. Only one way to save it. Jady and his loyal army of rejects - the winos, heads and gamblers of Spawater - have to lose a million in a month.
Gone Fission
by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 107940 words.
Published by Can Write Will Write on May 17, 2010. Fiction.
The government is building a nuclear power plant in Spawater to fight global warming. Greenies plot to steal the waste and drop it on the rain forests so loggers will leave them alone. Meanwhile the council are fining anyone who commits environcrime. They might not save the planet, but they will raise enough money thru fining the public to buy a new one.
Identity Cards
by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 106290 words.
Published by Can Write Will Write on May 14, 2010. Fiction.
A frightened government has decided to force everyone to carry Identification Cards and register onto a national database. As a trial they introduce them to Spawater. Should the ID cards and their controlling National Database be successfully implemented in Spawater they will be imposed nationwide. Will they work? Or will they be turn Spawater into a modern day gangster land?
Youth Market
by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 77030 words.
Published by Can Write Will Write on January 14, 2010. Fiction.
Jady is unhappy with dumbed-down television. He decides to dumb it down even more. Kill or cure by any means, fair or foul. Joanna hates cruel chicken farms. She decides to turn the people against them by any means, fair or fowl. Police Inspector Josephine Brewe knows Jady and Joanna are as guilty as two horses in a betting shop. She vows to arrest their careers to promote her own. Comedy fiction.
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