The Vale of the Red Horse, Edgehill, Warwickshire, October, 1642.

Bitter divisions that have grown unchecked in the kingdoms of the Stuart dynasty are about to engulf England in a bloody civil war. 30,000 men have gathered to determine the fate of nations and to pursue their own ideals and enmities through brutal and bloody combat. Many have never handled a weapon or strayed far from their native shire.

Among them are Anthony Sedley the Birmingham iron worker and Leveller, Robbie Needham, an embittered lead miner from Derbyshire who picks up a pike for his king, George Merrick, the young Oxford graduate whose prospects have been blighted by court corruption, Hywel Lloyd, a proud Welsh hill farmer, and William Bennet the struggling merchant who has staked everything to raise a company for the parliamentary cause. Then there are the half-brothers, Ralph and Francis Reeve, sons of a Suffolk farmer. Pious Francis has abandoned his studies at Cambridge to make England a New Jerusalem, cleansed of sin and filth. He despises his carefree brother and the father who seems to favour him. Caught cuckolding a London merchant, Ralph has forfeited his apprenticeship and indenture money. He dreams of restoring his honour and his fortune when he returns to London with the king’s victorious army. But first the brothers must face each other in the Vale of the Red Horse, the horse whose rider is War…

God’s vindictive wrath!

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Sebastian Beaumont

Will could never have predicted how much his life would change when he is knocked from his bicycle by a hit-and-run driver whilst returning home from his work as a psychotherapist. Diagnosed with concussion, he cancels upcoming client appointments and spends much of the following week in fitful sleep.

When he returns to his practice, something is very weird and very wrong. It seems that the cancelled sessions took place anyway and Will – or a form of Will – gave out some radical therapy that was completely out of character for him. What’s more, Will finds himself referring to events in his clients’ histories of which they themselves have no memory.

The resulting confusion and distress is merely the start of a bizarre unravelling for Will that threatens his livelihood, his marriage and even his sense of self as he finds himself caught up in a curious vortex of shifting realities, at the centre of which is Emma, the mysterious young woman determined to secure Will as her therapist and who seems to know a lot more about his shadowed past than she should.

The master of psycho-supernatural fiction returns with his third novel this coming spring.

 Sebastian Beaumont

March sees the launch of Sebastian Beaumont’s third
publication with Myrmidon, following the successes of
Thirteen and The Juggler.

Like its predecessors, The Lost Sessions is a genuine
page-turner, another deliciously dark fable of the
psyche that explores the twilight margins of the cerebral and the supernatural.

Thirteen told of the bizarre and sinister experiences of a Brighton taxi driver on the night shift – something of which the author had real experience. In The Juggler, a man finds a large amount of cash in a bag and leaves his wife and child for a new beginning in a remote seaside town, which turns out to be strange, disturbing and far from the escape he was hoping for.

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