Heaven's Devils

by Jon Mackley

With unemployment at its highest levels, and recession-hit England facing war, a group of citizens are thrown together in a Government-sponsored camp that allows residents to concentrate on looking for employment. However, Rob Walker realises that the camp is not as it initially appears, Leading a daring escape, he and his comrades discover that certain individuals are preventing the country's wheels of progress from turning to achieve their own goals. The group decides to take the law into their own hands in order to shake the country out of its apathy and become devils in order to restore their ideas of Heaven.

356 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 2014

About the author

Jon Mackley is Assistant Professor of Fantasy Literature at Richmond University, the American International University in London. He studied a degree in English Studies at the University of Stirling and a Master's Degree and PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of York. His novels include Crossing the Threshold (2011), Twisting Fate's Arm (2012), Heaven's Devils (2013), The Gawain Legacy (2014), Isla's Insryption (2018) and Nina's Secret (2022). He has also published an academic study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman versions of the Legend of St Brendan (2008) and a Bilingual edition of the Anglo-Norman version (2012), and a bilingual edition of the foundation legend The Origin of the Giants (2014). He has edited a gothic novel which was published in 1802 and which was influenced by the work of Ann Radcliffe entitled Who's the Murderer? by Eleanor Sleath. He has also contributed essays to London Gothic (edited by Phillips and Witchard), New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (edited by David Simmons), the Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (ed Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna O'Brien) and all three volumes of the Palgrave Gothic Handbook (Ed. Clive Bloom) and chapters on mythology and folklore.