Novels
Most of my fiction is set in a seven-thousand-year future history. During this time mankind falls and rises again—with help—leaving human-occupied space as a largely stable area of several hundred semi-autonomous systems, no two alike. Unfortunately humanity's dark past won't stay dead and the future holds threats worse than any faced so far.
The first book in this future history, PRINCIPLES OF ANGELS, was published by Gollancz in June 2008 (see this press release). It's a tale of self-delusion, secrets and betrayal that takes place in a floating city, a democracy by assassination where the will of the people is enforced by the ruthless and exotic Angels. Taro, a street-hustler, wants only to avenge the murder of the Angel who raised him, but he's going to find it hard enough to survive without her protection. When a reluctant visitor from another world arrives in the city on a deadly mission, it's not just his life that's threatened, but the city itself.
CONSORTS OF HEAVEN, the next book in the Hidden Empire series, came out in 2009. The story takes place at the same time as PRINCIPLES OF ANGELS in a primitive theocracy isolated from the rest of humanity. The arrival of an amnesiac stranger in a remote village transforms the life of Kerin, an outcast whose only status comes from her son, a boy 'touched by the sky'. The stranger's attempts to rediscover his past and Kerin's desire to secure a future for herself and her child set events in motion that will change their world forever.
The third book in the series, 
GUARDIANS OF PARADISE, published in September 2010, sees characters from the first two books meeting up to confront the more-than-human Sidhe directly. They soon discover that the big picture is more complex than they thought, and it's largely painted in shades of grey. Their mission to expose the Sidhe brings them to the attention of their enemies, and it isn't long before the hunters become the hunted.
The fourth and fifth books, BRINGER OF LIGHT and QUEEN OF NOWHERE, are due out in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Each novel in the Hidden Empire series is self-contained, though certain locations and characters re-occur, and the books come together to tell a larger story.