Product Description

Over two thousand years ago the Romans came, saw and conquered
Britain.
They stayed for a few hundred years, give or take, until rising Villa
prices, the ferociousness of the local lions and the quality of home brewed
wine convinced them to take all roads back to Rome.
No Romans remained. Britain, both sides of Hadrian's Wall, became a
Roman-free zone.
Except....
There was one little town where the Roman bugle-song anthem of retreat,
'Legitus Quickitus', was not heard. One town where the Romans and the
locals, ears full of soap, were so busy splashing around together they
missed the thunder of the departing last night chariots of fire. And as
there were no cabs due for another 15 hundred years - and that's if you
believe the cab office - the town's Romans decided to stay.
The town grew, thriving on the naturally occurring spa waters, nurtured by
the river Fons and hardened by the combination of original Brits and Roman
bath lovers. The last bastion of the Roman Empire, it is now a mighty town

indeed.
The town's name? Spawater, home of the legendary Spawater Baths.

The Spawater Chronicles are the tales of its citizens, and how they take on
the world and win.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #546933 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 7
• Binding: Paperback
• 356 pages

From the Publisher
The Spawater Chronicles are either serious books with added
comedy, or comedic tomes poking fun at the pomposity of the serious.
We are not sure which, so we gave the author a seven-book contract to find
out.

From the Author
A frightened government has decided to force the entire
population to carry Identification Cards at all times. As a trial they
introduce them to Spawater. Should the ID cards and their controlling
National Database be successfully implemented in Spawater they will be
imposed nationwide. Book two of the seven-part Spawater Chronicles recounts

the effects of ID cards on the town.

Joanna opposes them on principle and joins the National Campaign against
Identity Cards, Jady is also against, but sees in them an excellent
moneymaking opportunity.
Hanif, the computer expert, supports them and is employed to run the local
trial by the senior civil servant, Mr. Dauntliffe, thus causing friction in
the gang's social lives.
Michael, a good-natured Austrian - Germany lite - master criminal, sees ID
cards as the perfect cover to commit an audacious crime in the middle of
town, under the noses of Inspector Brewe and her disloyal assistant.
Can the Masked Pimpernel, that anonymous campaigner against paranoid
government control freaks, save the day?

Other books in the series:
Youth Market is volume one of The Spawater Chronicles, a
series of seven, relating the adventures of a group of friends, descendents
of the Romans, in the old Roman town of Spawater. It tells how they handle
cruelty to battered chickens and cruelty to intelligent television viewers.

Volume two (above) sees the introduction of Identity Cards to Spawater. Up
with this the Romans shall not put.

Volume three and the government wish to build a Super Casino in town. This
entails flattening Lifeboats', the friends' drinking club, for a car park.

It also means demolishing the Spawater Refuge Centre, home of victims of
gambling, drinking and drugs, world famous locally as Losers' Corner. The
friends object - Lifeboats' is their second home.

Volume four (to be published 2008) tells the story of the government's
attempt to build a nuclear power station in the Spawater hills just outside
town. It's a power thing.

Volume five (to be published 2009) finds Jady inviting Alison, everyone's
favourite Spawaterian, to be his candidate to run for Member of the
European Parliament.
'But I know nothing about politics and nothing about the European Union,'
protested Alison, baffled.
'Then you are the perfect candidate.'

And so forth.

From the Inside Flap
Blimus!

Customer Reviews

Try something different and read Identity Cards with a couple of friends
When we read Tighe's first book his style reminded me of Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide series. Now I think he may have found his own unique style. Humour keeps a reader keen while the twisted story line offers a different perspective on an issue of national importance in the current nervous climate. Little pieces of the story, such as a pro-ID card character forgetting his office ID and being refused entry by people who knew him, really pulled the debate in focus. Try something different and read Identity Cards with a couple of friends. It will fuel a lively debate and you can share the funny bits. Sniggering to yourself on the train to work worries the other passengers. It's not necessary to read the books in-order but does flesh out the characters in a way that leads to a feeling of knowing them as people and explaining their thoughts and actions.