OBSERVER: Kill Will


Can you imagine a world without William Shakespeare?
That’s the starting point of Gordon Thompson’s (pictured) novel Kill Will: Nightbird in Sunlight
We meet a teenage Will Shakespeare, who wishes on seven mystical stones, and falls through a time portal from 1580 Stratford into present day London.
Seven physical manifestations of the women he has yet to create strangely come with him. So future Shakespearean heroines Juliet, Cleopatra, Viola, Ophelia, Miranda, Lady Macbeth and Cordelia join forces to find Will, recover the stones of power, and return to their proper times and places.
But it’s not a straightforward task, as their mission is complicated by government agents, Druids, border security, and the descendants of Morgana LaFay, all with their own agendas.
Pursued by shadow creatures and helped by new friends in a modern world that has never heard of Shakespeare, the women must find their strengths, overcome their differences and survive before someone kills Will and changes the world irrevocably.
This time-travelling mystery could be described as Back to the Future meets Romeo and Juliet, and the fertile literary brain of author Gordon Thompson is given full rein in Kill Will.
Gordon is a writer, musician, artist and publisher and the author of two previous books, Scheherazade and The Amber Necklace.
Kill Will: Nightbird in Sunlight is published by clandestinepress.net
Julie Houghton