Chris Dunk
A Problem with Ghosts
(non-fiction) World Rights Available
The Helix Trilogy
~ A Fantasy Adventure Series ~
for ages 8 to 14 & beyond
Chris Dunk
writing as
Christopher Hardwick
(fiction) World Rights Available
Three books each of 76,000 words, the manuscripts are complete
Theme: Persistent self-belief can overcome life’s great obstacles
Chris Dunk is a trained, highly successful innovative engineer, and also a natural health practitioner, counsellor and healer, as well as a behavioral psychologist.
A teacher & lecturer for over forty years on human interest subjects such as telepathy, Chris has two non-fiction titles – one on the phenomena of ghosts, the other a milestone work on human behavioral psychology entitled Understanding Humans, besides nine published works of adult fiction, one a best-seller, with Virgin and Time Warner with rights sold to six foreign language countries.
The Helix Trilogy introduces a simple lesson in telepathy that many readers will be able to apply. By this means they will begin to develop faculties other than those of thinking and of language.
Though down-to-earth, Chris’s children’s stories are allegorical: one can do great things in a simple way by quiet persistence and self-belief.
As a foil, he introduces a level of emotion and life-reality when the young protagonists have to cope with burgeoning sexuality and the tensions of growing up at the same time as defeating evil and saving the planet. Thus they grow equally in spirit, in character and self-belief, as they succeed in overcoming life-threatening events and personal trials.
Outline
Time runs around a vast, universal spiral - The Helix. By traveling vertically it is possible to jump into other ages, but within the same space. Each book of the trilogy is set in a different time: Past, Future and Present.
Tolkienesque, the fast-moving, action-packed adventures see John Gaunt, a gangling, spotty-faced boy with high natural intelligence and great ideas but little self-belief, grow in self-confidence and stature, realizing he is much cleverer than he has been made to believe. Unlike Harry Potter he has no magic of his own, but has to learn how to solve problems with intelligence and persistence.
Conversely, Alissia of Amuria, a spirited, uninhibited girl with unshakeable belief in herself and her abilities, teaches John ‘the Mystric of Belief’ and telepathy, a real technique which young readers will quickly learn. Alissia’s natural magic is based upon unreserved self-belief.
Irendorne is an exquisite spirit being in the form of a sphere of pure intelligence with all the unique abilities of Humans before the race’s decline. John and Alissia aspire to emulate her spiritual nature and abilities.
Each chapter presents John and Alissia with a life-threatening problem to solve. Each book presents them with a greater problem requiring intelligence, diligence and wisdom in order to resolve the predicament.
