The Ryan Stoker Quartet

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Teenage Gangs of the 80s

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On a London suburban housing estate in the early 1980s, thirteen-year-old Ryan Stoker desperately wants to avoid his big sister and her cronies, join one of the Mod, Punk or Football Casuals gangs that roam the estate, and charm the new girl next door with his winning personality. Unfortunately for Ryan, he's about to discover that you should always be careful what you wish for. Teenage Gangs of the 80s explores the themes of identity, peer pressure, and knife crime. 

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Privates in Public

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Fourteen-year-old Ryan Stoker thinks he has found paradise on a Mediterranean island. All is idyllic until family troubles reveal a darker side to paradise. Set in Cyprus, England and Northern Ireland in the mid-80s and early 90s, Privates in Public finds adolescent Ryan Stoker navigating life at boarding school and the British Army. The novel explores the themes of friendships, betrayal and redemption.

 

​Ambivalence 101

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On leaving the army and experiencing dead-end jobs in London and a growing dissatisfaction in his relationship with Jennifer Green, Ryan Stoker takes off on a drug-fueled journey of self-discovery to Israel. After an idyllic year in the Negev desert and a journey inwards, Jennifer and Ryan reunite, and journey outwards on a road trip across Egypt and to Amsterdam in pursuit of Nirvana. As money runs out and reality bites, will their love be strong enough to keep them together? Ambivalence 101 explores the themes of commitment, trust, and self-sabotage. 

 

Weighing up The Odds

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Set in London in the late 90s, Ryan Stoker hasn't adjusted well to civilian life since leaving the army and finds himself persona non grata to his girlfriend, boss and bank manager. With no civilian skills, appropriate qualifications or money in the bank, can he make it - or at least survive - in the fast-paced London restaurant scene? The novel explores the themes of second chances, reinvention and growth.

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Count Von Terror

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Recently awoken from the dead, Count Von Terror is determined to party and make up for the lost time. Private Eye, Sam Smiley, is tasked with tracking Terror down before he grows too powerful.

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The Hidden Planet

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In the year 3,000, after the world has become an inhabitable toxic wasteland, the remaining population live in city-states inside sealed glass domes across the known planets. Approaching compulsory termination at 35, Major Francis Lionheart looks for a way to evade termination.

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There's Always Tomorrow

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Stuck in a dead-end job and relationship of convenience, Ryan Stoker takes to pulp writing and living vicariously through his antagonist, Sergeant John Fortune, only to end up meeting and helping his hero in real life. Together they embark on a dangerous mission that will change them both forever.

Sunny's Cafe

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Episode 1: Let Them Eat Cake

Cafe owner Marvin Sunny takes on all-comers in a cake-eating contest.

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Episode 2: Driven to Abstraction

Augustus Sunny's gambling puts the coffee shop business in jeopardy until Marvin has a brainwave.  

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Episode 3: Blood is Thicker Than Wine

With the demise of the coffee shop on the cards, the brothers commiserate by drinking old wine they find in the cellar.

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Episode 4: Branded Fish

Augustus gives the coffee shop an expensive brand makeover after borrowing money from a local gangster, Tofu Tommy. 

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Episode 5: A Great Depression

Augustus is depressed. Marvin tries to cheer him up. 

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Episode 6: Sunny Rises in the West

To look busy, Augustus & Marvin hire more staff.