Kevin Karmalade: 6 books

In this episode, readers are asked to regress some eighteen months back into 2025, into the lead-up to a Gala Ball. Sir Perceval Lamb attends a meeting at St. Dandy’s Cathedral, where he applies to hire the Old Vestry as a venue—for his charity event. He must first obtain Archbishop Garibaldi’s...

At this stage of the serial, readers will have formed a picture of the nature of the groups of characters that attend Lamb’s ball. Lamb welcomes his guests and re-assures their donations will go to a worthy cause. It helps that he is wheel chair bound. It makes his fund-raising more credible—being...

The Old Vestry is being made ready for the ball. There is much activity afoot. Micah, the head-technician, Dirk and Tristan, discover a dwarf curate, Tom O’Malley. He’s rummaging in the Vestry kitchen-larder, trying to pilfer some alcohol. Seizing the opportunity to improve the entertainment,...

Hail Regina is a serialized social satire of, ‘political and religious romp’, set in the near future (2025-30). It is family-friendly and has a vintage quality to its writing style. Episode One has a fore-note, ’After the Crash…’ and a comical ‘prelude’ scene from a gala-ball, as readers...

It is 2027. The episode opens with a snapshot of the State Command Control-Tower. It is monitoring the State-leader, Royston Bustwick. He is speeding through the Capital in a platinum-coloured vehicle, with helmeted guards - strapped onto outside standing-boards, as they guard him. He returns safely...

The episode moves back and forth to Dirk’s tenement flat, as readers move in time to his past and then to the present. We are treated to several vignette-styled sketches of Dirk’s childhood and teens, showing how Dirk has been shaped. We meet Uncle George, who has had an accident at the Thallium...