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.

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.

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.

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.

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.