John Hulme

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2008
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Seems

1 - The Glitch in Sleep (Aug-2008)
2 - Split Second (Mar-2009)
3 - The Lost Train of Thought (Jan-2010)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Glitch in Sleep

    The Seems - 1

    Becker Drane knows exactly how The World works

    You know the rain we had two weeks ago, or that nightmare you had last night? Becker Drane can tell you exactly who or what was responsible because Becker works as a Fixer for The Seems. From t...

  • Split Second

    The Seems - 2

    Becker Drane has still got the coolest job in the world, but being a Fixer in The Seems while trying to live a normal 13-year-old life is sometimes impossible. On the way to a family holiday, a bomb explodes in the Department of Time and Becker is ca...

  • The Lost Train of Thought

    The Seems - 3

    Becker Drane''s coolest job in The World-as a Fixer in The Seems-is in jeopardy. So when a trainload of Thought goes missing, Becker reluctantly agrees to join a veteran team of Fixers on a mission in The Middle of Nowhere. Turns out getting the trai...

  • The Night After Christmas

    Cut off in an isolated house by a very deep Christmas snowstorm, Ellen suddenly loses all electrical power and realizes that she could well freeze to death. Suddenly she hears a knock at the door and outside, in the snow, is a strange man, a strange ...

  • As It Was Told

    Have you ever wondered what happened to ... Goldilocks, Snow White, Santa’s reindeer, or wondered why Cinderella’s sisters never get to tell their side of the story? Why was Scrooge the way he was? Beloved characters in popular fairy tales have v...

  • Iron Shaft: Primus

    This is the story that Julius Caesar never wanted told. For almost two thousand years the famous Roman dictator has had a monopoly on history. His was the only version we could read of the many battles he fought in pre-Christian Gaul (modern France...

  • Iron Shaft: Quartus

    Caesar needs money - he always needs money. Having settled matters in Rome he sends his legions north in Gaul to collect what they can. Iron Shaft goes with them. He has been promoted and is now in charge of the legion hospital, a job that his Gen...

  • Iron Shaft: Quintus

    A deal has been done. Caesar, Crassus and Pompey, three powerful Romans, have divided up their world between them and Caesar has retained Gaul, along with all its Legions and all its riches. But this is not enough for such an ambitious man. He wan...

  • Iron Shaft: Secundus

    Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, politician and dictator, desperately needed money. To get it he spent a year in Spain looting everything that could not be hidden and taking from everyone who could not hide it fast enough. To protect his fo...



  • Iron Shaft: Tertius

    In this letter to his patron in Rome, the soldier Iron Shaft tells us about the Druids. Julius Caesar has marched his legions into Gaul and is recovering from his first major battle. His German enemy, Ariovistus, is invading the northern Gallic tri...

  • Brother Gregory: Digression

    The Bones of Saint Hugh: How the bones of an English Saint survive revolution, a war and end up in a Brno church.In the story 'Brother Gregory: Gene Four', the last remains of an English saint appear to perform a miracle. But how did the bones of Sai...

  • Brother Gregory: Gene Five

    Gene Five: The Bending of Light. Mendel breaks his microscope but solves the mystery of a burning manuscript in a locked room and saves his friend.Mendel learns how to bend rays of light, which reveals the incredible world of sub-microscopic life, an...

  • Brother Gregory: Gene Four

    Gene Four: The Saint, the Sinner and the Scientist. How Brother Gregory cures a barrel of wine and the bones of St. Hugh perform another kind of miracle.At the dawn of the modern scientific era important discoveries were made in the strangest places....

  • Brother Gregory: Gene One

    Gene One: Introducing the monk Gregor Mendel, his friends and his enemies. How and where Mendel presented his results to the world - made history - and no one understood a word he was saying.These Brother Gregory stories are historical scientific fic...

  • Brother Gregory: Gene Seven

    Gene Seven: How Mendel turns a piece of cloth red, learns some chemistry, meets two special women and gets elected.Women's fashion and the desire for highly-colored cloth was the strange starting point for the new science of chemistry; the manipulati...

  • Brother Gregory: Gene Three

    Gene Three: Mendel’s Sparrows or how a missing piece of music causes a lot of trouble for Brother Gregory and his pupils.During his life Gregor Mendel had three careers; a scientist, a teacher and an administrator. Today we recognize his genius for...

  • Brother Gregory: Gene Two

    A continent away from the monk and the monastery where humans got their first glimpse of inheritance mechanisms, Charles Darwin has already told the world how all modern living creatures had got to be the way they were. But … he did not understand ...

  • Iron Shaft

    Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, politician and dictator, desperately needed money. To get it he spent a year in Spain looting everything that could not be hidden and taking from everyone who could not hide it fast enough. To protect his fo...

  • Iron Shaft: Sextus

    Before he can become the Greatest Roman of them All, Julius Caesar must fulfill the Druid prophecy and place his foot onto the lands of two more enemies; the Germans and the Britons. In Gaul the legions are gathering and Iron Shaft rejoins the Legio ...



  • The Professor Mysteries

    Around The College Henry Wodeash is known as ‘The Professor’. This pipe-smoking biologist likes solving mysteries. In this collection of four short stories, The Professor and his junior colleague, help The Dean solve the mystery of a missing pain...

  • More Professor Mysteries

    Around The College Henry Wodeash is known as ‘The Professor’. This pipe-smoking biologist likes solving mysteries. In this new collection of four short stories, The Professor and his junior colleague are once again confronted by strange a...

  • A Sky Full of Blobby Mountains

    "It's so good you're settled in your own place. It's what your mother would have wanted." I remember being told that, about a year after she died. I was struggling to keep hold of a job that was closing the walls in on me...and to keep a flat that fe...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Hulme has published 22 books.

John Hulme does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Sky Full of Blobby Mountains, was published in August 2022.

The first book by John Hulme, The Glitch in Sleep, was published in August 2008.

Yes. John Hulme has 1 series.
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