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Rf Bradford
"Thunderbirds, dialed up by a thousand."
Featured on BBC Upload with Rob Jelly.
Action-packed, five-book killer romance set on near-future Earth.
Plus the true story: Domestic Violence - Escaping Murder.
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Only Human (4) - Bu Mon
In 2045, the line between humans and machines has dissolved.
In the Amazon rainforests, survivors of the Awá tribe are being hunted. When Ayrua is taken by traffickers from Partner, she signals for help from the only one who can - Fusion, 4,000 miles away in her underground lair.
Fusion is a DNA android that considers herself Superior Intelligence – despising humans but bonded to Ayrua by their childhood escape, she launches her Shadow Star. Screaming towards the only human she cares about at Mach 60, on a collision course with her past and abilities that coined her name. She will make the Partner traffickers rue the weakness of being only human.
MI5 still have a leak, even in COBRA meetings, but the darker side of Partner stands to suffer more. At its centre lies Bu Mon – in a hidden fortress subverting the rulers of the world. As Jake and Julia's mother close to kill Bu Mon, Julia is closing to kill them – her love turned to hate.
Also heading to Bu Mon is Hunter, in the organic yacht Kinetic Art. It's alive.
“As much as Julia thinks she wants to, when it comes to pulling the trigger she won’t. She won’t shoot her own mother, but her own mother will shoot her. She believes she owns Julia, like a possession. That she gave her life so she can take it away. If Julia points a gun at her, she will be the one who ends up dying.”
“So you want to get to Julia, to stop her?”
Tom looked at Tyler, with eyes that held no question. No doubt. Eyes of someone who had been pushed beyond all normal limits. Pushed though trial by nuclear fire. He knew exactly what action he was going to take.
“No. I want to be the one pulling the trigger. Her mother deserves to die.”
“Time to die, Lia”
Podcast
Singapore
Coming soon.
Only Human (3) - Sister
Nick Johnson, the only surviving human in a banned race series, is determined to prove he can beat android rivals or die trying. In Kent, he charges his stripped-out zerodrone down a forest track at 200mph - in Somerset, a different storm is raging. Julia's team are under a ferocious swarmbot attack, watched by Max, who she can see grinning from his Partner window.
In the Indian Ocean the grey man, brought back to life after a radiation leak, is aboard giant battleship HMS Vanguard, guiding it towards a missing beacon from HMS Tempest. Under his feet, the nuclear reactor levels are rising again.
In the skys above, supersonic zerodrones and hypersonic Scramcats outpace the sun - their performance is nothing compared to the Mach 60 of Fusion's dark-matter aircraft, with four thrusters on top to stop it flying into space.
Dubbed Thunderbirds on steroids, this is a techno-thriller, where DNA androids begin to feel love as well as hate, as we fight for our place in a world changed by our own ambitions.
Partner are secretly the most powerful corporation on Earth but even they don't understand who controls them. Who they really work for.
Five sisters are involved. Not all related. Not all human. The one thing they have in common is a mission to kill. Julia's mission was to avenge the dead, now she's out to revenge the not yet dead. To save them and herself, by killing her own mother.
Julia is flying after her, as she flys towards the very head of Partner. To Bu Mon. No-one who knows what Bu Mon really is goes any where near. No-one in their right mind.
“Time to run, Lia”
Podcast
Grey Man
Coming soon.
Only Human (2) - Tsunami
As advanced androids emerge with DNA mortality, they also emerge with the human condition of knowing they will die - impacted by fear, anger, ambition, love and, perhaps, even religion.
Android leader Fusion, born into mortality and exploitation, is determined to make a name for herself and scar the planet in her name. She's built an underground army, to rule harder than Genghis Khan and the Roman Empire combined, but has a weakness she has yet to understand, called humanity.
As an Atlantic tsunami races towards England, the nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point lie directly in its path. The fate of the country and the Partner Corporation subverting the world, rests in the hands of a hypersonic plane, a giant battleship and small bands of rebels – including a teenager called Julia and the man from MI5 who wanted her dead.
“Time to get up, Lia”
Podcast
Family
Coming soon.
Only Human (1) - Nuclear
2045, England is being pounded by mega storms, mega greed and mega corruption.
Two half-sisters have yet to meet. Fusion is part human, Julia is only human - a teenage Tom Boy. Her best friend is Jake, for as long as she can remember.
Fusion was kidnapped by Partner before her first birthday and saw her father shot in the head during her rescue. Burning with anger ever since, she's built an army against the world - to demonstrate she is not Artificial Intelligence but Superior Intelligence. The only human she cares about is the one set her free.
But life is complex. Things change. Plans change. Sometimes, just sometimes, the only way to really live is to die.
Petite and slim on the outside, Julia was a raging monster of revenge on the inside and her monster was strong. Knew no limits. Would never give up. Robert had been shouting for her to stop but she was deaf to it. He ran over and grabbed her. Physically pulled her off and threw her aside, dropping beside Roberta's limp, bleeding body. The fight was over.
Only then, getting to her feet where Robert had thrown her, fists clenched, entire body tensing in fury, did Julia make a sound. Opening her mouth wide, she looked at the sky and released an ear-splitting scream. A primal scream of pain from the deepest, darkest hell of her life.
She screamed so loud, birds fled to the skys in terror. Animals in the woods cowered in fear. When her lungs ran out of air, body and rage deflated, her mouth slowly closed and she trudged silently back to her place.
Slumping down next to Gurmeet, she crossed her legs and hung her head. Gurmeet was staring at her. Everyone was staring at her, Roberta's blood trickling off her bare knuckles.
“Jesus. Where did that come from?”
Head still down, Julia said nothing. Sat with her long hair hiding her face. Only Gurmeet, sitting right beside her, heard her low sobs. Saw the tears falling onto her legs.
From the outside Julia had shown she was tougher than hardened steel. On the inside, she was breaking.
“See you Friday, Lia”
Podcast
Combat
Coming soon.
Non-Fiction
The true story of our escape.
"Abuse is not a gendered crime; it is abuse, pure and simple."
When Victim first met Abuser, they thought they had found a soulmate in a fellow artist. Instead, Victim entered a fourteen-year descent into a hidden hell of psychological and physical torment. From the first lie to life-threatening campaigns this true story, documented through official reports, transcripts of abuse and emails between them, exposes the harrowing reality of domestic violence.
Analysis written by a therapist, combined with my memoirs - aided by transcripts of the abuse as it happened, text messages, photos, police and social services logs. Includes links to video recordings of abuse, via Youtube channel: 
In public, everyone thought we were the perfect couple. Behind closed doors, they opened the gates of hell - shouting it was all our fault. 13 years on, they still do.
They were aged 7 and 8 at the time.
Money Saver
revised edition coming in 2026
Stop spending and start saving - using measured facts.
In this era of soaring energy bills, Money Saver – Energy provides a clear, science-based roadmap to lower your costs. I am a qualified production engineer, and this guide strips away marketing myths to reveal how much your appliances actually cost to run and how to eliminate needless expense.
From the phantom drain of standby settings to the actual reality regarding air-fryers versus traditional cookers, I use real-world measurements to show you how we save over £1,000 a year.
No sponsors. No bias. Just practical, easy-to-implement changes that barely impact your lifestyle yet can save you a small fortune. Smart devices are not smart so we need to be.
Electricity: standby energy; smart meters; energy labels; kettles; hobs, ovens, air-fryers and slow-cookers; the living room; kitchen smalls; refrigeration; washing machines; other devices and heating
Gas: central heating and hobs
Energy Production: wind, solar, nuclear, wave or fusion? What is really green?
Other Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Love & Death
From a celestial being breaking a cycle of domestic abuse to a physicist racing through time to prevent a family tragedy, these stories jump through genres of sci-fi, thriller, fantasy and crime. Whether it is the grit of survival on a ravaged island or the quiet, heartbreaking moments in a hospital ward, Love & Death reminds us that while our bodies may fail, the echoes of our actions and strength of our connections remain immortal.
Seven short stories, one adapted for the London Short Story competition, where it was a runner up. Science fiction with a touch of romance, some with an element of the supernatural.
Ania's Song - written for an OCD girlfriend, so obsessed with tidyness she once wanted to take off the shirt I was wearing so she could iron it.
My Name is Sapphire - inspired by experiences of domestic violence, helped by the supernatural.
Happy Christmas - the value of unconditional kindness and never giving up. If we give up, are we not already dead?
London Fling - a runner up in the London Short Story competition, where a psychopathic killer is on the loose.
Crane Island - shipwreck survivors. Cut off from the world, their island refuge is facing an end of its own.
The Gift - as families, many of us don't always talk and important conversations are not had. Regret is a pointless emotion but, sometimes, there is no other way to describe it.
Dark Water - Huge beings in space - out of this world, yet still human in need.
Life From the Heart
Cameron's a broken man, trying to drown his sorrows when redemption screams out in the night.
In the pouring rain, Athena is being attacked by thugs. Cameron was too late to save his wife but he's not too late this time. Determined to help, he runs to her - into a storm far bigger than he could ever have imaged.
Athena is hounded by a dangerous past, loaded with dangerous secrets. Secrets involving state corruption and a mafia boss named Dirk Steiner. Steiner will stop at nothing to recover what he lost. As Cameron goes from grieving widower to desperate protector, he must navigate Steiner's demonic world of cold-hearted killers and high-speed pursuit. Surviving on the edge, as they try to rebuild their souls.
Can the broken-hearted really find redemption in saving another? Does true love truly die, even after the heart stops beating?
"That was my wife." Cameron is in ruins. His wife has been murdered, along with every motive to go on. He's turned to solice in cider - no longer caring about the new day to come. Not caring until he hears a scream. A new distress. Someone needs help and, even now, he can't say no.
It's a decision that takes him on a path more dangerous than he could ever have known. People are going to die and he could be one of them.
Written in 1989, Life from the Heart was my very first book. Had been trying to pen a full-length story for years when this just came to me. Outlined it in a single, four-pages of A4 sitting. Not while drinking cider but Southern Comfort, in Mainz, Germany - on a degree placement at IBM's hard-drive manufacturing plant.
With a touch of the supernatural and love over death, my director of studies hated it. Surprisingly, my usually critical elder sister loved it.
Dozy Wayster
Being the luckiest man on Earth can be a dangerous business.
High in the sky, in the Casino of the Gods the betting stakes have become higher than ever. It's the annual 'Heaven a Mortal Week' and this year the games master, Gambit, has chosen Dozy Wayster - professional sleepaholic and village lazy bones, with breath so bad it peels wallpaper and a face such ugly it shatters mirrors.
But, as with everything in the universe, there must be balance – for in every other way, Dozy is the luckiest man on Earth. Gambit knows this and has, very deliberately, chosen not to tell anyone. Especially not the muscle-bound Mighty God of Righteous Doom who has just taken the bet.
“Remember, he must be heavenised by non-Godly means. You have one week to succeed.”
Holding his massive sword, standing tall and proud in his armour, the Mighty God of Righteous Doom narrowed his eyes.
“Won't need a day.”
With a loud parp, he flapped his cape and leapt from the cloud.
Dozy Wayster is the village lazy bones. He has breath bad enough to peel wallpaper, looks that genuinely could kill and, despite being a multi-millionnaire, he lives at home with his parents. So incredibly hopeless and untouchable in everyday life, the universe has granted him balance, for Dozy is also the luckiest man on Earth. He's also wanted dead.
High above, in the Casino of the Gods, only the games master knows of his luck so has chosen him for a bet: heavenisation of a mortal by non-Godly means. A bet the Mighty God of Righteous Doom has just accepted.
Inspired by the usual writer naggings of 'get a real job', this was a really fun book to write. Only took three months and a big London publisher liked it, requesting the whole thing. Not having the luck of Dozy, when I supplied the whole thing, that editor had left and the new one wasn't a fan. That was 1993 and, since then, the story has been added to and modified. Might modify it again, or might just leave it as is. The planned sequel was never written as had moved on to a three-book hard sci-fi saga, set on Earth and spanning two million years. Guess I should get back to those books first.
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