Hi, I’m Dale!
I’ve been editing B2B magazines since 1995 and have written four very different books across fiction and non-fiction, including the best-selling series – The Time-Travelling Estate Agent. My books are available on Amazon in e-book and paperback formats.
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The Time-Travelling Estate Agent
In December 2019, in a small Welsh town, 60-year-old estate agent Eric Meek discovers a house with an extraordinary secret: a garage containing a functioning space-time portal. The portal connects 2019 to 3 July 1976, the pivotal day when Eric was sixteen and his life took a dramatic turn. Given the chance to revisit his past, Eric hopes to correct mistakes that shaped his future. As he travels between decades, he becomes entangled in a long-forgotten missing persons case and seeks to help those he loves, including his deceased father. Ultimately, Eric must confront whether changing the past will truly improve his life – or transform him instead.
The Time-Travelling Estate Agent 2
The second installment of The Time-Travelling Estate Agent sees Eric Meek return to the past with a new purpose. Picking up where the first book ended, Eric once again travels from the present to the long, hot summer of 1976. This time, his mission requires more than a brief visit: he must live in the past, finding a job and a place to stay while continuing his investigation into the mysterious death of The Faith. Along the way, Eric encounters a host of memorable new characters and reunites with familiar faces. As he immerses himself in 1976, Eric must confront unexpected discoveries that could alter everything he thought he was searching for.
The Honey Peach Affair
A casual drink with Britain’s most famous adult entertainment star sparks the extraordinary adventure of film reviewer Bruce Baker. When the star mysteriously disappears, her sister enlists Bruce to help uncover the truth, dragging the cautious, law-abiding journalist into a dangerous world of criminals, intimidation, and moral compromise. As Bruce racks up offences that would shame a hardened outlaw, he must also contend with a hostile boss eager to fire him. Along the way, he becomes an unlikely ally to a passionate anti-porn campaigner, accidentally thrusting her cause into the national spotlight. The journey leads Bruce to an explosive journalistic revelation – one he never wanted to write.
From Sex Shops To Supermarkets
Drawing on firsthand experience as an editor at one of the adult retail industry’s best-selling trade magazines, this book examines the rapid rise in demand for adult toys. From Sex Shops To Supermarkets charts how a once-niche sector became firmly mainstream, with major UK supermarkets stocking products once confined to specialist retailers. It explores how television, film, and celebrities helped normalise the industry, accelerating its growth and cultural acceptance. Along the way, the book revisits key milestones, including a major consumer electronics company launching its own sex toy, a private prosecution that threatened the Ann Summers business model, and the infamous jiggle ball shortage of 2012.
I’m proud to say that The Time-Travelling Estate Agent is one of Amazon’s top-50 Time-Travel titles!
Reviews of The Time-Travelling Estate Agent
I came across this book via a news article online. Feeling homesick and knowing this book was based in Cwmbran, I decided to get on Amazon and read a sample. I liked it very much and so I bought the book (and the second in the series).
I’ve just finished this one and I love it. The subject matter, the characters, the story itself, all well-written and presented with humour. You don’t need to be familiar with Cwmbran to enjoy reading this book as the story is so entertaining.
It kept me engaged throughout and I found myself eager to return home so I could get the kettle on and settle in for more reading. Now, time to find out what happened to ‘the band’ in The Time-Travelling Estate Agent 2.
— PocketRocket
Amusing and interesting piece of genre fiction, this silky piece of prose feels like a rich, indulgent Sunday evening in the 70s, black forest gateau. Following in the footsteps of Adrian Cousins and Keith Pearson, this treads similar ground, but stands very much on its own. An interesting storyline, a neat hook on the whole time travel device, but which felt fresh and unique, a few twists along the way, all added to the nonsense and fun. Really hope to read more from the author.
— Itsmr0
Reading this book became a little pocket of calm in my mornings. I finished book one this morning (the first book I’ve read cover to cover in about five years!) and I absolutely loved it. I was totally transported into the story – invested in Eric’s search for Verity, tearful for him at times, hooked from the moment the body in the woods was found, and left with a real sense of peace and closure when Eric and Carol finally escaped together. I used to love reading as a child and teenager, but somewhere along the way with university and work, I lost the habit. This book genuinely reignited that love and took me right back to feeling like a younger version of myself (quite fitting for a time travel story).
— Lucy
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