Bøker av Allen Lyne

Jonathan Goodfellow is an accountant. One day God looked down upon the earth and saw that he was meek and mild and thought that it was a good thing. This was the start of the disruption of Jonathan's quiet life and began the series of misadventures that then took place. Misadventures as varied as being hit on the head by a one legged, one eyed dwarf wielding a golf club, dying, meeting God in heaven and being offered the choice of carrying God's message and reforming the human race or going to hell.Jonathan becomes the new Messiah and makes desperate attempts to convince people of his bona fides. Ranged against him are a number of forces that include The Legal Ruler's Society, a group of lawyers who have been in league with Satan for many years and who are plotting to take over the world in the name of evil when the moment is right.Satan, like God, decides to leave human beings to their own ends and offers the world to the lawyers if they leave him alone to fulfil his twenty-year-old ambition to break one hundred and twenty at golf. Satan put the idea of the game into the heads of the Geordies as a means of driving people mad and getting them to do terrible things to one another. Hell has been converted into a golf course and everyone there must play two rounds a day. No one is allowed to break one hundred and twenty on pain of terrible torture.Along the way Jonathan does make converts. Most of them are the poor and downtrodden, the criminal and the insane. The one exception is his main disciple, Marcie Mabelgrove, chief investigative reporter with the Daily Bugle, and love blossoms in Jonathan's lonely life.In all of the mayhem that takes place, there remains the voice of sanity in the form of Jonathan's two white, albino, Himalayan, dwarf rabbits. Bugs and Thumper have been deputised by God as the communication point for Jonathan, and God has granted them the power to speak to Jonathan. Like all rabbits, Bugs and Thumper are practical and down to earth creatures who are not swayed by the tempestuous events around them.The book reaches its climax in the last battle of good versus evil on earth as the evil lawyers, led by the portly, cigar smoking, cask wine drinking, Jones P. senior, battle a group of aged pensioners on the banks of the Murray River.

Jeffrey case is a taxi driver who wants to play Hamlet.He does! Once!Jeffrey is called in as understudy at two hours notice and gives the most execrable performance of Hamlet in the history of theatre. It is a performance seen by every influential critic and arts' administrator in the country. Other more shadowy figures see it too. There are consequences.In a high-rise apartment building a group of people reside. All of them are costumed as characters from Shakespeare's plays. The man living in the penthouse apartment looks and dresses like Shakespeare. Strange chants and imprecations come from a windowless room on the 2nd floor. Mysterious ice-cream vans arrive and depart from behind an impenetrable high fence at this location.Jeffrey case stumbles into a nightmare world of drugs, sex, magic and Shakespeare as he tries to unravel the mystery of the severed head and the two-hundred thousand dollars mysteriously left in his taxi by the beautiful redhead in the silky green dress.The book is set around an outdoor production of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'. Many of the things that happen to the characters echo events in the play. Even the reason for the modern outdoor production is a mirror to the original production.Is Shakespeare alive? Who are the mysterious characters? Who is running the drugs' business in Jeffrey's hometown of sun city?Will Jeffrey ever get laid? Will he ever get to bed?Knowledge of Shakespeare's plays is not necessary to enjoy this very funny book.

Des Crompton is an ex-sailor with a chip on his shoulder. Orphaned as a young child, he grew up in institutions and foster homes where he learned to fight to protect himself.Violence is a way of life for Des until he leaves the navy and meets Molly, the owner of the sole pub in Browns Creek in Northeast Tasmania. Molly was exposed to violence as a child and is totally opposed to it.This unlikely pair is mutually attracted and fall in love. Can Des put aside his typical Australian male pride and gel with Molly?The bulk of the book is set in Northeast Tasmania amidst the battle to save the ancient rainforest from the depredations of wood chippers.Des's early life and experiences in the Vietnam War have left him with a dose of post-traumatic-stress disorder.When Molly goes missing, Des sets out to find her. Is she dead or alive? He must battle the unforgiving Tasmanian wilderness and his inner demons as he pursues his quest.