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The Lucidity Programme: The past has found its voice
"The past has found its voice"An incredible a 74-year-old scientific mystery suddenly re-emerges.The British government is running out of ideas and time to solve a major threat to national security. Two elderly sisters in an Oxfordshire nursing home have ‘put their affairs in order’. They pass a dangerous family secret to the government, a secret which could potentially leave the world defenceless to unstable or hostile governments.Wil is an unassuming farmer whose lucid dreams are being hijacked by voices from the past. He is inadvertently led into a series of exploits before coming to the attention of Government Communications HQ. He becomes their last hope in the search for the scientific discovery of the century. He naively steps up, not realising the full extent of the sacrifices he may have to make.
282 pages, Paperback
Published October 20, 2020
About the author
Jonathan Mark Bayliss
4 booksMark's parents dropped the 'Jonathan' in favour of Mark almost immediately and he once forgot how to spell his Christian name several years ago - easily done. He is originally from the former Welsh mining town of Blaenavon, now a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site attraction.
As an apprentice, he survived electrocution, whilst drilling a hole in the floor of a flooded milking parlour, before going on to qualify as an aeronautical design engineer. He then spent most of his career in key accounts, designing and selling office interiors to blue-chip clients. His near-death experience decades earlier was surpassed when his career nearly ended abruptly – permanently. He was almost shot in the head at point-blank range with a Magnum .44 by an over-exuberant client whilst at a hospitality event in Sweden!
He won his first national award for writing a fictional story as an eight-year-old - The Brooke Bond award. But sadly after leaving school he didn’t write another fictional story for over 40 years. Success arrived soon after, when his short story ‘Taste the Darkness’ won the Henshaw International fiction prize in 2020, and Henshaw published it in their anthology in 2021. It can also be found in Mark’s own anthology Valley Noir Valley Blanc. He came third in the 2019 Francis Copping Memorial Competition for short stories.
His debut novel ‘The Lucidity Programme’ received excellent reviews and briefly made it to #33 in its Amazon category alongside the likes of Dean Koontz and Paulo Coelho! Something to tell the grandchildren one day.
To relax he’s recently cycled some classic Tour de France alpine climbs, hiked the ‘Camino’ across Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, snowboarded Mont Blanc’s Vallée Blanche and once managed to outrun a herd of rampaging cows across his local Welsh mountains. He is secretary of the Hay Writers Circle and a dedicated yogi.
He lives in Wales with similar views to the characters in his valley noir books.
As an apprentice, he survived electrocution, whilst drilling a hole in the floor of a flooded milking parlour, before going on to qualify as an aeronautical design engineer. He then spent most of his career in key accounts, designing and selling office interiors to blue-chip clients. His near-death experience decades earlier was surpassed when his career nearly ended abruptly – permanently. He was almost shot in the head at point-blank range with a Magnum .44 by an over-exuberant client whilst at a hospitality event in Sweden!
He won his first national award for writing a fictional story as an eight-year-old - The Brooke Bond award. But sadly after leaving school he didn’t write another fictional story for over 40 years. Success arrived soon after, when his short story ‘Taste the Darkness’ won the Henshaw International fiction prize in 2020, and Henshaw published it in their anthology in 2021. It can also be found in Mark’s own anthology Valley Noir Valley Blanc. He came third in the 2019 Francis Copping Memorial Competition for short stories.
His debut novel ‘The Lucidity Programme’ received excellent reviews and briefly made it to #33 in its Amazon category alongside the likes of Dean Koontz and Paulo Coelho! Something to tell the grandchildren one day.
To relax he’s recently cycled some classic Tour de France alpine climbs, hiked the ‘Camino’ across Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, snowboarded Mont Blanc’s Vallée Blanche and once managed to outrun a herd of rampaging cows across his local Welsh mountains. He is secretary of the Hay Writers Circle and a dedicated yogi.
He lives in Wales with similar views to the characters in his valley noir books.
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April 17, 2022
Interesting characters, believable plotline. Sad to see such poor editing though.
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