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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2015
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Book List in Order: 37 titles









  • The Cuban Missiles Crisis didn’t end peacefully and the 'swinging sixties' didn't happen. On Saturday 27th October 1962 American and Soviet geopolitical brinkmanship resulted in the most terrible war in human history. The forever changed world th...





  • Acting under Presidential decree three men meet clandestinely in a villa at Compiegne to belatedly begin to contemplate the unthinkable. What if ghosts really exist? Not as spectres, not as whispers in the night but as real people who simply find the...



  • The Cuban Missiles Crisis didn’t end peacefully and the 'swinging sixties' didn't happen. On Saturday 27th October 1962 American and Soviet geopolitical brinkmanship resulted in the most terrible war in human history. The forever changed world that...






  • What if ghosts really exist? Not as spectres, not as whispers in the night but as real people who simply find themselves out of their time and place like fallen angels. Pictures of Lily is the second book of a series of supernatural mysteries - The S...





  • Winter’s War is the first full length Guy Winter Mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War at the time of the Battle of Britain and the start of the London Blitz. August 1940 - Chief Inspector Guy Winter has been Fleet Street’s favori...



  • ‘California Dreaming’ is Book 2 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 â€" USA. It is November 1963 - thirteen months after the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong. In this timeline the swinging sixties are not going to hap...



  • Heroes is the second story in the Harry Waters Series and the immediate sequel to Islands of No Return. Sometimes whatever you do the World conspires against you. In Heroes we find Harry fighting for his freedom, his career, against alcoholism and to...



  • Islands of No Return is the first book in the Harry Waters Series. Harry's life goal was to get into the SAS. When we meet him in 1981 he is in the process of achieving his dream. No sooner has he lived one dream than he bumps into another, Sarah, th...



  • Winter’s Revenge is the second full length Guy Winter mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War at the time of the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the devastating night Blitz of London in September 1940. In Winter’s Revenge Lon...



  • The fifth full length instalment of the Guy Winter Mysteries Series, Winter's Spy, is set in November 1940.In Winter's Spy the Mystery Man is under arrest, suspected of having been an enemy agent for his whole career in the Metropolitan Police and th...



  • ‘The Painter’ is one woman’s remembrance of the days of her youth spent in Bielefeld under the bombs of the Allied Air Forces in the final months of the war in Europe.After writing ‘Until the Night’ I had been looking for a way to start tel...







  • Winter’s Exile is the third full length Guy Winter mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War at the time of the London Blitz in October 1940. In Winter’s Exile we find the Mystery Man in classic whodunit territory. In Winter's Exile t...



  • Brothers in Arms is the third book in the Harry Waters Series and the sequel to Heroes. Seven years have passed since former SAS officer Harry Waters stood trial in Winchester for the murder of his best friend. He wants nothing more than to be lef...



  • ‘The Burning Time’ is Book 5 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. It is February 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. The atomic mushroom clouds over the Mediterranean have dispersed and now as the W...



  • ‘The Great Society’ is Book 3 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 â€" USA. In the alternative timeline of the post-Cuban Missiles War the swinging sixties never happened. ‘The Great Society’ is the third verse of the American ...



  • The Nantucket Sleighride is the third Frankie Ransom story. Nantucket Sleighride (description: from Wikipedia) â€" ‘A Nantucket sleighride was a term used by Nantucket whale men to describe what occurs immediately following the harpooning of a whal...



  • The Ancient Greeks called the Straits of Gibraltar the ‘Pillars of Hercules’. The Rock of Gibraltar was the northern pillar; Monte Hacho in Ceuta its probable southern analogue. To the ancients the Pillars of Hercules delineated the western end o...



  • It is January 1964 in an alternative timeline in which the swinging sixties never happened. The fires of Washington DC have been extinguished and there is a new but fragile rapprochement between the old trans-Atlantic allies. But both old allies ...



  • A little over twenty months have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962. It is a minute before midnight in Philadelphia on 4th July 1964 in a World stumbling inexorably towards a second, even more catastrophic nuclear war. The United States, the ...



  • It is November 1964: there has been a bitterly contested Presidential election; the war in the Midwest has become bogged down in the rain and the cold of the coming winter; the peace conference is deadlocked at the old United Nations building in Manh...



  • ‘Ask Not of Your Country’ is Book 4 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 â€" USA. In the alternative timeline of the post-Cuban Missiles War the swinging sixties never happened. ‘Ask Not of Your Country’ is the fourth verse of ...






  • ‘A Line in the Sand: The Gulf War of 1964 â€" Part 1’ is Book 7 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. It is April 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and ar...



  • ‘The Mountains of the Moon: The Gulf War of 1964 â€" Part 2’ is Book 8 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. It is June 1964 in a World in which the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran ...



  • Tales of Brave Ulysses is Book 6 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. Ulysses is the English form of Ulixes, which in turn is the Latin form of the Greek Odysseus, hero Homer’s ‘Iliad’ that tells the story of the great Trojan Wa...



  • Winter’s Return is the fourth full length Guy Winter mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War in the third month of the devastating night Blitz which followed the defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. In Winter’s Return G...




  • ‘Cricket on the Beach’ is Book 1 of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62 â€" Australia.Timeline 10/27/62 is set in a World in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went wrong and the swinging sixties never happened.The thermonuclear madness...



  • In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe of the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962 the British government and its surviving Commonwealth allies were in a state of shock.In Britain the priority was to restore the rule of law, to begin to piece to...



  • This is an amazing and romantic story that will bless your heart in seeking the totality of human happiness and a romance-filled life. Taking my time to bless your day with this amazing story is such an eternal joy that filled my heart for such this ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Philip has published 37 books.

James Philip does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, FIRE OF AFFECTION, was published in April 2022.

The first book by James Philip, After Midnight, was published in December 2015.

No. James Philip does not write books in series.