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With each of my novels, five so far, I explore a different subject in a different setting, so with each you will get fresh insights, definitely not yet another re-work of an established formula.
My characters, fully fleshed out personalities assembled from a lifetime of observation of my fellow humans, are placed on challenging situations, facing dilemmas with choices that will determine not only their own fate, but that of their loved ones and wider society.
Using satire, pathos and humour, I explore the nature of mankind and how we are shaped by politics, technology and the natural world, the dystopias we might create and how we might escape.
No Free Speech for Hate
Britain is broken, the monarchy abolished, English society is dominated by the Universities, new centres of power in the land, a power as great as the medieval Church, suppressing heresy against the new woke creed as zealously as Stalin’s secret police, to protect the public from dangerous hateful influences.
Almost all jobs now demand a degree rooted in flexible genders and intersectional dogma, excluding the Educationally Unsuitable, an underclass lurking in the shadows of the black economy.
Ban of the Remembrance Day commemoration sparks an insurrection, restoration of the monarchy and purging bastions of the old regime’s power, the Universities.
To Keep Us All Safe
Jim, exiled back to England to stay with his uncle and aunt after years in Vietnam, after finding employment with the Vestral corporation and finding his own lodgings must now contend with his interfering landlady, Marjorie, curbing his companionship with housemate Alfie. With the strict lockdown, Jim struggles to meet lover Lily, member of a coven of witches.
The lovers enduring frustration during a pandemic, food shortages and bereavement, allied with anti-vaxxers, dodging police, break lockdown, kidnap pharma tycoon, escaping justice, seek fulfilment in eco-commune only to be dragged back into the mainstream.
The Glastonbury Triangle
Journalist Simon, reporting on an Arthurian theme park, is drawn into a tangle of witchcraft, alternative lifestyles, mythology and secret technology as he tracks down missing persons in Glastonbury, including girlfriend, Jenny.
On her trail, Simon joins a female dominated cult worshiping the goddess Gaia, where men serve obediently, technology is banned and all must obey the tyrannical ruler, Philomena.
Simon foils a plot by a mad scientist, rescuing Jenny from being turned into a mermaid.
Walking out of this World
Miles, is an unnerving presence, seeing into people’s minds, usurps Eddie, walk leader, entices walkers to Miteby, a place not on any map, where nostalgia reigns, populated by loved ones from their youth.
Lucifix, another spirit, intervenes, lures them to another place, the Underside, where life’s fears, regrets, guilty secrets, obsessions, hatred and betrayal haunt you in hellish eternal torment.
Miles reappears to fight an epic battle to rescue the folk from the Underside.
Destiny of a Free Spirit
In the far future, after a nuclear war, the world is separated into two realms under the protection of the all-powerful Commission. In Ecologia mammoths, wolves and sabre cats roam the world of Stone Age people, while in Economica modern people enjoy technological convenience.
Peter finds a portal between these realms and illicitly sets up a life for himself in both worlds. When Peter’s friend, Simon, figures out what the Commission really is and is silenced by sinister forces, Peter questions his future. The imminent closure of the portal compels Peter to make a choice.
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A deadly pandemic sets the world at war, not only against the disease, but with itself.
Officious busybodies enforcing lockdown, neighbours snooping and informing, lost livelihoods, conspiracy theories spreading faster than the disease.
What do we reveal about ourselves when we are frightened? To Keep Us All Safe by Stephen Ford.
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A nation divided. Voices suppressed. When free expression becomes dangerous, who dares to stand up and be counted?
Stephen Ford watched it happen in real life and turned it into a novel that cuts deeper than the headlines.
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Every generation sees the disaster, vows it will never happen again, and then the next generation does it all over.
We evolved on the African savannah. Everything we needed to survive there, aggression, tribalism, short term thinking, is destroying the planet we now have to manage.
What if we were never built for the world we created?
Destiny of a Free Spirit by Stephen Ford. Which world would you choose?
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Glastonbury. Where King Arthur is said to be buried. Where the Holy Grail may have rested. Where ley lines converge beneath the streets.
Druids, witches, Viking rites, Hindu temples, magic potions and crystals, all in one small English town.
When the woman he loves vanishes into the heart of it, one man must face forces that are very much alive.
What lies hidden within mysterious Glastonbury, and can he prevent her gruesome transformation?
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What if the wild places, the mountains, rivers and forests, were home to something deeper than the physical?
A group of ordinary people stumble into Miteby. A village not in this world. A place that exists only in the spiritual domain.
There they find their lost loved ones. Everything they ever wished they could go back to. But not everyone who enters finds their way back.
Is there something more beyond this life? Walking Out of This World by Stephen Ford.
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A deadly pandemic sets the world at war, not only against the disease, but with itself.
Officious busybodies enforcing lockdown, neighbours snooping and informing, lost livelihoods, conspiracy theories spreading faster than the disease.
Jim finds himself adrift, isolated, searching for connection in a world where connection is dangerous.
What do we reveal about ourselves when we are frightened? To Keep Us All Safe by Stephen Ford.
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A nation divided. Voices suppressed. When free expression is dangerous, who dares to stand up and be counted?
Stephen Ford watched it happen in real life and wrote a novel about where it ends up.
Get an exclusive preview of his upcoming books. Link in bio.
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Stephen Ford’s No Free Speech for Hate is a provocative and unsettling dystopian novel that explores the fragility of liberty in a society that mistakes censorship for moral progress. Set in a fractured near-future Britain—where the monarchy has been abolished, the United Kingdom broken apart, and universities elevated to authoritarian institutions with dictatorial power to decide what the nation is allowed to think—the novel interrogates the dangerous consequences of conflating ideological orthodoxy with virtue.
Ford’s narrative strength lies in the way he dramatizes the bureaucratic banality of repression. Scenes of safety officers rifling through children’s bedrooms for “heteronormative” novels, or students being disciplined for wearing a poppy, show how intrusive systems of control operate not only through violence but through petty surveillance, humiliation, and the erasure of cultural memory. The slogan “No Free Speech for Hate,” repeated throughout the novel, becomes chilling in its elasticity: “hate” is simply whatever the ruling consensus finds uncomfortable.
Thematically, No Free Speech for Hate is less a polemic than a cautionary tale. Ford raises questions about the very nature of truth, debate, and historical memory. Through the persecuted academic Jeremy Fitzregal, who argues for a more nuanced view of British imperialism, the book asks whether scholarship can survive when official committees determine which interpretations are permissible. These debates are presented with narrative tension rather than academic detachment, making the novel readable as both political thriller and philosophical fable.
Our Verdict: A timely, unsettling novel that confronts readers with urgent questions about freedom, ideology, and the perils of enforced conformity. It will resonate with anyone interested in contemporary debates about free expression, cancel culture, and the shifting boundaries of tolerance. Readers of dystopian fiction, political satire, and cautionary social commentary—from Orwell and Huxley to Atwood—will find Ford’s vision both provocative and disturbingly plausible.
It is an unreservedly recommended Golden Quill read!
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