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Little Sparrow Publishing presents intelligent historical thrillers combining political intrigue, speculative science and richly researched settings - world-building IP in music and literary works:
Storylines woven with history, where political intrigue, science, and hidden forces shape civilisation.
Mindful fiction with depth and imagination.
Stories that connect us to the past.
April 2026 Featured Book
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Chapter 1
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Classic 1930s noir murder mystery - a body in the bath - a Hollywood producer, in the frame and on the run.
Nazis and Fatwas in Marrakesh.
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Softly Like a Kiss
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The Body In Abbey Park
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![Book cover titled "Kiss of the Dragon" by D.K. Sachs with an image of a casino scene showing people playing roulette and blackjack, and Chinese decorative elements.]()
Kiss of the Dragon
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![A vintage book cover for 'We Shouldn't Be Here' by D.K. Sachs, featuring an illustration of a landscape with a dirt road, a person walking, a car parked on the side, rolling green hills, and a night sky with a shooting star or comet.]()
We Shouldn't Be Here
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![Book cover for 'Murder in the Twelfth House' by D.K. Sachs featuring a dark background, a shadowy hand reaching down, and an illustration of a large house in the foreground.]()
Murder in the Twelth House
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![Book cover titled "Trouble Came Knocking" by D.K. Sacks, featuring a large red gemstone, a silhouette of a man with a hat holding a camera, and a group of people in a discussion.]()
Trouble Came Knocking
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![Book cover titled "Something Worth Dying For" by D.K. Sachs. The cover features a photograph of a waterfront scene with palm trees, benches, and a building with a clock tower and a dome, with blood splatters and the words "La vie de Jésus" handwritten on the lower part of the cover.]()
Something Worth Dying For
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Sing A Song Of Six Girls
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![Book cover titled "The Rip That Became a Ripple in Time and Space" by D.K. Sachs. Illustration features two people in a car, a large moon, a space plane, and a sign that reads "Fly Me To Mars." Two military officers stand on a space-like path leading toward the scene.]()
The Rip That Became a Ripple in Time and Space
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The Shifting Sands of Dammam Dome
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Any Fool Can Know
‘The Future Walks Among Us’
A Series of
9 novels
An intelligent thriller series combining history, science and suspense.
We Shouldn’t Be Here
A pair of travellers crash-land in the early 20th century, propelled 336 years into the past by a quantum explosion. But these are no ordinary time travellers—they come from a dystopian future where the very fabric of humanity has been warped and distorted beyond recognition.
Their arrival triggers a series of shocking events, starting with the brutal murders of four police officers. As the body count rises, Detective Inspector Hadleigh and the unconventional Betts find themselves caught in a maze of clues, each more mysterious than the last.
But nothing can prepare them for the sinister truth they uncover: a dark cult operating in the shadows, with motives as malevolent and chilling as the future the unwitting travellers left behind.
We Shouldn’t Be Here is the first book in the series - The Future Walks Among Us.
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Time travellers stranded in the early twentieth century become caught up in historical events that could significantly alter the timeline they came from.
Something Worth Dying For
In the mean streets of Marseille, a routine delivery escalates into a perilous game of hide and seek. Driver Jean Toussaint is ensnared in a labyrinth of secrets.
What could be so precious, to be Something Worth Dying For?
Meanwhile, in the vibrant world of 1920s Paris, Séverine and Saffron’s idyllic life is violently shattered. An assassin’s blade and Saffron’s mysterious disappearance leave Séverine to navigate a world turned upside down.
Across the Atlantic, the neon jungle of New York City beckons Frank, Clara, and Harper. But in the land of opportunity, danger lurks. Chinese triads, Atlantic City's high-stakes gambling dens, and the infamous duo of Nucky Johnson and Arnold Rothstein create a dynamic mix of intrigue.
"Something Worth Dying For’ is the second book in the series - The Future Walks Among Us.
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A simple delivery, but what is the cargo? And why are people willing to give their lives?
The decadent 1920s, the venues, characters, and intrigues of high-stakes gambling in the South of France and Atlantic City.
Kiss of the Dragon
Kiss of the Dragon, set in the Jazz Age, the 1920s, places the reader in a world of political intrigue. Beneath the glossy veneer lies an underbelly of criminal conspiracies, corporate greed, and duplicitous leadership.
What begins as a search for her missing sister spirals into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Lucy Lampton becomes the target of Chinese gangsters and duelling Russian factions. A priceless collection of Romanov jewels lies at the centre.
Kiss of the Dragon is the third book in the series, The Future Walks Among Us.
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Thrown together by circumstance, Lucy and Ambrose uncover a hidden international network of people smugglers, Chinese Triads.
The Body In Abbey Park
When Detective John Hadleigh's brother is brutally assassinated, it sets off a chain reaction of violence that spans continents. As bodies pile up from Naples to London to New York, Hadleigh finds himself in a race against time to uncover the target of an international web of anarchists.
Meanwhile, in the quaint town of Glastonbury, Detective Betts faces a chilling discovery - a young woman's naked body, strangled and abandoned in Abbey Park.
The Body in Abbey Park is the fourth book in the series - The Future Walks Among Us.
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Detectives Hadleigh and Betts investigate a murder that points to hidden malevolent international organisations - child smugglers and anarchist bombers.
Murder In the Twelfth House
An epic thriller begins as a briefcase filled with explosive political and personal secrets goes missing, igniting an urgent and perilous search to recover it.
A foreign agent, Ilse Schumann, plans to exploit the salacious information to defect to America and obtain a new identity. A ruthless criminal organisation will do whatever it takes to silence her and retrieve the dossier.
The intrepid investigators, Hadleigh and Betts, become involved in a complex plot while investigating the mysterious disappearance of a young heiress. Their encounter with the fugitive agent complicates loyalties and greatly increases the danger.
Murder in the Twelfth House combines noir espionage with the dark ambitions of organised crime syndicates across continents. "Murder in the Twelfth House" is the fifth instalment in the series - The Future Walks Among Us.
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Detectives Hadleigh and Betts uncover an international espionage network and a multi-layered honey trap of political blackmail.
Trouble Came Knocking
Clara's Restaurant at Paradise Cove, where the peaceful Malibu beaches conceal a dangerous undercurrent.
When bootleggers arrive at this picturesque location, Clara and her staff become entangled in the violent world of organised crime.
Frank's idyllic life with the enticing Dragon Sisters is disrupted by the arrival of a ruthless Cossack oligarch, determined to reclaim his homeland.
Meanwhile, Lucy and Ambrose play a dangerous game of cat and mouse in exotic Shanghai, hiding priceless Romanov jewels under the deadly watch of Bolshevik agents.
Trouble Came Knocking is the sixth book in the series, The Future Walks Among Us.
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Malibu beach 1930s. Prohibition, gangsters, guns and illicit booze.
Softly Like A Kiss
Los Angeles, 1930—a city where dreams and nightmares are woven beneath the glitz and glare of Hollywood’s bright lights.
The discovery of a young starlet’s lifeless body submerged in a blood-filled bathtub at the luxurious Topanga Canyon mansion of a powerful movie mogul sends tremors through the Hollywood elite.
Jonathan Fairbrother, a distinguished British barrister, is summoned from his serene life in Maui to the gritty streets of LA. Accompanied by the enigmatic Ambrose and his glamorous partner, Lucy Lampton, the trio find themselves at the heart of a complex intrigue.
On different continents, Séverine and Saffron have been compelled to relocate to Marrakesh, a city of secrets, spies, and Islam.
Softly Like A Kiss is the seventh book in the series, The Future Walks Among Us.
Film logline
Classic 1930s noir murder mystery - a body in the bath - a Hollywood producer, in the frame and on the run.
Nazis and Fatwas in Marrakesh.
The Rip That Became a Ripple in Time and Space
In the year 2236, an interdimensional quantum explosion on a two-seater solar cruiser devastates the very fabric of reality. The blast hurls its occupants—Seven, an elite pilot, and La Voce, the most celebrated musician in the solar system—more than three centuries into the past, depositing them in an uncertain world scarred by the aftermath of the First World War.
The explosion was not an accident; a quantum device meant to erase the pair from existence had been placed aboard their ship. But who was responsible for the attempt? And who was the intended target—Seven or her enigmatic passenger, La Voce?
Meanwhile, in the fourteen years since her arrival in the past, Seven has taken on the name Séverine and built a new, idyllic, and comfortable life. She has found love.
The Nazi Party has begun its steady and relentless rise to power. The SS, attracted by whispers of her advanced knowledge and mysterious abilities, is determined to capture her. Theo and Henri Sarkoza, two close friends, are abducted and taken as bait to a remote German castle. Séverine orchestrates a daring rescue in the heart of the Nazi homeland.
'The Rip That Became a Ripple In Time and Space' is the eighth book in the series, 'The Future Walks Among Us.'
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In the year 2236, something is actively disrupting the fabric of time. History is being altered with disastrous effects. The technocracy governing the Solar System desperately attempts to contain the consequences.
Any Fool Can Know
Princeton, 1937.
Albert Einstein is working on ideas that may reshape humanity’s understanding of the universe.
When an unexpected visitor arrives with knowledge that appears to contradict established physics, theoretical speculation becomes immediate reality.
Government agencies take an interest.
Private groups attempt intervention.
And the implications extend far beyond academic debate.
This novel introduces key themes explored throughout the series:
• the fragility of history
• the responsibility that accompanies knowledge
• the hidden influence of unseen actors
• the possibility that the future may already have begun to intervene
Any Fool Can Know is the ninth book in the series, The Future Walks Among Us.
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A former colleague interrupts Einstein’s work in 1934, prompting a race to seize scientific knowledge that will shape humanity’s future.
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The Shifting Sands of Dammam Dome
In the relentless heat of 1937 Saudi Arabia, oil remains a distant dream—dark and elusive, a treasure buried deep beneath shifting sands. After four years of drilling at Dammam Dome, tensions run high at the CASOC, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company, compound. Six wells, a fortune invested, and no significant results. The future of the Kingdom’s oil ambitions hangs in the balance.
Officer Rakan bin Abdulaziz, Commander of External Security, is summoned to the site following the mysterious disappearance of the chief chemist, the individual responsible for a vital report that will determine whether the drilling proceeds. Days later, the chemist’s body is found in the desert, ravaged by vultures.
Officer Rakan is a man seeking peace, perhaps redemption. He finds himself walking a fragile line between tradition, national interests, and international politics. Everyone believes there is oil beneath the sands, and some will kill for it.
Meanwhile, a very different journey unfolds in Karachi. Zayd Wallace, a mixed-race orphan born to a British soldier and a Muslim mother, is raised in England by Methodist missionaries. He serves as a soldier for the British Empire. Highly skilled, loyal, and ruthless, Zayd is chosen for a mission no one else can undertake: the assassination of a Muslim cleric whose fiery sermons challenge colonial authority.
In disguise as a pilgrim, Zayd journeys into the spiritual core of Islam, grappling with the conflicts between faith and identity. He questions everything: his orders, his country, and most importantly, himself. Zayd experiences a spiritual awakening and begins to see Islam not merely as a doctrine but as a living truth.
Officer Rakan, fresh from solving the murder at Dammam Dome, is assigned a new task: to track down the British assassin who has infiltrated the Kingdom in disguise. The two men come from different worlds but are heading for a collision course driven by oil, empire, and religion.
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Amid the 1930s race for oil, political intrigue and covert operations shape events that will influence global power for the next century.
P L Raymond: Bio
Paul Raymond
Paul Raymond is a British novelist and musician whose work combines historical depth with speculative imagination.
His novels span the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century and the technologically sophisticated world of the twenty-third century, weaving together political intrigue, scientific discovery and the enduring mysteries of human motivation.
Before turning to writing full-time, Paul enjoyed a distinguished career as a professional musician and educator. His lifelong engagement with music informs the atmosphere of his fiction, where rhythm, structure and emotional intensity play a central role.
His work often explores themes of:
• hidden power structures
• time and causality
• scientific responsibility
• the cultural forces shaping civilisation
• the relationship between creativity and knowledge
Paul (aka: DK Sachs) is the author of ten novels, including the ongoing series The Future Walks Among Us, a multi-layered narrative exploring the consequences of technological progress across centuries.
He is also the creator of the educational platform Music College TV, which has helped thousands of musicians develop their understanding of theory and performance.
Through Little Sparrow Publishing, Paul develops an interconnected body of work designed for readers who enjoy intelligent thrillers that combine historical authenticity with imaginative scope.
The debut novel by
AG Raye
Sing a Song of Six Girls
Release date:
17th April 2026
Set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1980s music scene, Sing a Song of Six Girls follows Artie, an ambitious young musician chasing fame and artistic recognition. The collapse of a promising record deal results in a band breakup, prompting Artie to reconsider his direction and navigate the unpredictable world of the gigging circuit.
Told from Artie’s perspective but driven by the compelling presence of the six women he encounters, each with their own ambitions, desires, and complexities. Each one reveals a different aspect of love and ambition. As boundaries blur and motivations are questioned, one central theme emerges: in the pursuit of success and connection, who is truly using whom?
Artie’s journey becomes as much about personal growth as it is about professional success, as he faces love, loss, friendship, and self-discovery.
Adding a unique visual dimension, Artie’s passion for sketching is woven into the narrative, with illustrations featured throughout the book, that doesn’t just tell a story—it draws you into it.
Film & Television Rights
Little Sparrow Publishing titles are available for adaptation.
Film & Television Rights
The titles published by Little Sparrow Publishing form part of an interconnected narrative universe combining historical settings with speculative scientific ideas.
The Future Walks Among Us series follows individuals navigating pivotal moments of the twentieth century after an unexplained quantum event propels them from the twenty-third century into the past.
The material offers strong adaptation potential due to:
• continuing characters
• layered mystery structure
• recognisable historical settings
• contained narrative arcs within each book
• an overarching long-form storyline
• themes of power, knowledge and technological responsibility
The series combines the intellectual intrigue of historical drama with the conceptual scope of speculative fiction.
Rights enquiries are welcome.
Contact:
Suz - suz@littlesparrowpublishing.co.uk
Key elements:
strong period settings
contained mysteries
continuing characters
layered mythology
Contact for rights enquiries.