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David Bridger

Biography

David Bridger settled with his family and their two monstrous hounds in England's West Country after twenty years of ocean-based fun, during which he worked at various times as a lifeguard, a sailor, an intelligence gatherer, and an investigator.

Where to find David Bridger online

Website: http://www.davidbridger.com
Twitter: @DavidBridger
Blog: http://david-bridger.livejournal.com/

Books

In a Hedge Druid's Grove by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 97,370. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2023 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Body, mind, & spirit » Occultism, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Body, mind, & spirit » Gaia & earth energies
A year in the life of an old salt who sailed the world and came home to a different place, my memories and me exploring nature and history together in the wooded valley where I have settled as a solitary-practising hedge druid.
Wild Times by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 166,900. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2021 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Magic is a marriage of hope and rebellion. In every culture, every generation, there are some who still use it, and they are often persecuted because of what they know, what they practise. But many don’t stick around. They go into the Wild.
David Bridger's Science Fiction & Fantasy Collection by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,350. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2020 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Genetic engineering, a Bronze Age warrior in the 21st century, a 21st century archaeologist in the Bronze Age, an artist whose creations have a life, dryads, aliens, near-future space flight, distant-future life in Earth’s space junk belt, a house of ghosts, fallen angels and demons… These are the worlds explored in this collection of ten stories of science fiction and fantasy from David Bridger.
Space Train by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 98,840. Language: English. Published: August 29, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Space pioneers, frontier worlds, alien societies, war refugees rebuilding their lives, heroes with heart, loving relationships of many flavors, and a scarily clever ruthless enemy. Tom—a man of color and interstellar freighter captain who flew refugee ships during the galactic war—is tormented by a terrible tragedy. Never again will he allow anyone to hurt passengers he’s promised to keep safe.
Storywalker by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 82,820. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Fairy tales
Part-time librarian Molly Matthews lives with the painful and exhausting chronic illness ME. The condition has broken every part of her life, except that she has plenty of time to escape into books. And when Molly escapes, she really escapes, because she possesses a rare talent that allows her to enter a book and meet its characters and share their adventures. Molly is a Storywalker.
Quiet Resistance by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 23,750. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Thirty-five years after aliens invaded Earth and assumed roles of power in the UK and USA, two spaceship slaves escape to Snowdonia in possession of humanity-saving information. New Scotland Yard detectives Carmen Wood and Thomas Able are sent to find them in a race against time and overwhelmingly well-resourced alien agents. The next five days will change the world forever.
The Honesty of Tigers by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 74,120. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Living his life again. Same person, same fishing village, same years. But this time the world shows him a different face. It sounds like a dream come true. He's got the chance to make things right for his loved ones, and to avoid all his old regrets. But the past is never that simple.
Gifted by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 95,860. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
When school-leaver Jessica's reclusive great-grandfather bequeaths her a haunted castle in the Welsh borderlands, she's thrust into a world of hostile strangers, troublesome Romany tenants, and a strange gift that shows her disjointed visions of the past. And that's only the start of it.
Damage Control by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 24,030. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Kath Preston and Jen Stenberg are damage control engineers in the generation starship Romeo, 582 years into its 800-year journey from frozen Earth to humanity’s hopeful future on planet Nirvana. On Christmas Eve seventeen years later, a murderous rogue crewman and the lurking ghost of the Juliet conspire to threaten Romeo’s safety and the lives of those they love.
A Flight of Thieves by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,240. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2019 by Beaten Track Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk
In a dangerous world of isolated, steam-powered, island communities, a thousand years after Earth's apocalyptic flood, Princess Victoria and her robot mentor King Henry recruit a ragtag band of airship adventurers to help her fight the military traitors who intend to murder her family and enslave the kingdom.

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