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Clocks and Boxes
There didn't used to be a Pyramid on Wellington Road.
South Hertling is no stranger to weirdness. Evil hardware stores, aliens, supervillains, talking cats... the little Australian suburb has seen them all. Now there's a spooky Pyramid, its shadow falling across the South Hertling Super Centre every day. It falls to Alfred Pilbrook to do something about it -- which is a little unfair because Alfred just runs a watch shop, snd fighting anomalous monuments isn't really his thing. But Emma Crispin from the storage accessories shops is quite keen on tidying the Pyramid away and Alfred is quite keen on Emma so... Yeah, it's looking like it's Alfred's problem however you slice it.
Fortunately, the shopkeepers have help in the form of the time-lost steampunk engineer Fanaka and the deeply unammused Donna Coheco. Can this colorful quartet save the day and defeat the ill-defined but probably evil forces behind the Pyramid? Or can they fail to do that? Those are really the only options, here.
Praise for 'Mysterious Aisles,' Book 1 of the South Hertling Chronicles
'Genuine cracking-laughter moments explode through the simmering ripple of absurdities.' - Claire Rhoden, author of The Chronicles of the Pale
'As daft, as silly, as bizarre and as utterly disinterested in literary convention as Mysterious Aisles is, I chose to enjoy the ride. ' - BP Marshall, author of The Last Circus on Earth
South Hertling is no stranger to weirdness. Evil hardware stores, aliens, supervillains, talking cats... the little Australian suburb has seen them all. Now there's a spooky Pyramid, its shadow falling across the South Hertling Super Centre every day. It falls to Alfred Pilbrook to do something about it -- which is a little unfair because Alfred just runs a watch shop, snd fighting anomalous monuments isn't really his thing. But Emma Crispin from the storage accessories shops is quite keen on tidying the Pyramid away and Alfred is quite keen on Emma so... Yeah, it's looking like it's Alfred's problem however you slice it.
Fortunately, the shopkeepers have help in the form of the time-lost steampunk engineer Fanaka and the deeply unammused Donna Coheco. Can this colorful quartet save the day and defeat the ill-defined but probably evil forces behind the Pyramid? Or can they fail to do that? Those are really the only options, here.
Praise for 'Mysterious Aisles,' Book 1 of the South Hertling Chronicles
'Genuine cracking-laughter moments explode through the simmering ripple of absurdities.' - Claire Rhoden, author of The Chronicles of the Pale
'As daft, as silly, as bizarre and as utterly disinterested in literary convention as Mysterious Aisles is, I chose to enjoy the ride. ' - BP Marshall, author of The Last Circus on Earth
371 pages, Paperback
Published August 31, 2023
About the author
B.G. Hilton
9 books13 followersAustralian SFF author BG Hilton spent most of his life doing jobs so tedious that his only escape was entertaining himself with crazy fantasy stories, and now he writes them down in the hope of entertaining others. He specialises in Specilative Fiction, Humour and Non-Fiction. He works in the education sector these days, which would probably surprise any of his teachers. His debut novel -- the Steampunk adventure 'Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys' was published by in early 2020. This was followed by 'Mysterious Aisles' in 2022, 'Clocks and Boxes' in 2023 and 'The Grimsdale Claimant' in 2025. He lives with his family in Sydney, and consequently spends a lot of time in traffic. You can find his blog at bghilton.com; @bghilton on Twitter and @bghilton.author on Facebook.
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