Böcker av Billy O'Shea

Portals to another worldEight fantastic stories from a shadow Copenhagen - past, present and future - inspired by amazing artworks.Otto Frello (1924-2015) was a Danish painter of fantastic scenes who lived in the centre of Copenhagen for most of his life.Billy O’Shea is an Irish writer of fantasy and speculative fiction, and a long-time admirer of Frello’s work.Both of them are concerned with opening doorways to other worlds, for the rest of us to step through and explore.

Clockmaker Karl Nielsen has not been having a good day. He thought he was taking a short Yuletide trip to the city. Now he stands accused of treason, robbery and murder.The darkly humorous third volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series features a king disguised as Santa, a prime minister who might be an alien, a pregnant Irish monk and a long-forgotten Danish monster.

In a future Denmark, Karl Nielsen, Royal Clockmaker, is recalled to the Round Tower to design the King's most ambitious project yet - a vehicle to travel into space.The second volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series is a quirky, humorous tale of Nordic monarchs, Irish monks, jazz records, airships, submarines, spacecraft and conspiracies.

In a future Denmark, the King's clockmaker becomes enmeshed in a web of court intrigue, and undertakes a fateful journey to the far north."I love this book. It's alternate history, it's historical fantasy, it's steampunk. It has a literary feel without being pretentious or alienating. Maybe by 'literary' I simply mean 'damn well written'." - Autumn Barlow, author of The Letter in the Briefcase