Overview

Imagine a world where there was no writing, mathematics, nor healthcare, where everything you had was made by your own hands, and life expectancy was half what it is today. That is the world we meet in the Newhaven series of novels, set at the beginning of the bronze age on the western edge of what is now Europe. The lives, loves and conflicts of three generations of our ancestors are explored against a backdrop of the greatest change in human history as the nomadic lifestyles of the stone age give way to the settled communities of the Neolithic. In a social and intellectual revolution to rival any in history, the men and women of the time invent the first societies, governments, organized religions and systems of astronomy. They also invent the first wars, a foretaste of all history to follow them up to and including our own age. The Newhaven novels are an intimate portrait of the triumphs and failures of men and women set thousands of years ago in the past that will be instantly recognizable to those of us who live in our concrete and steel cities today.