Po dvanácti letech v nakladatelství, kde se naučil spoustu věcí, ho v lednu 2000 propustili, a to ho podnítilo k psaní. Jeho raná léta byla poznamenána častým stěhováním kvůli otcově armádní službě, což ho zavedlo na různá místa. Tyto zážitky a rané kulturní vlivy formovaly jeho život i tvorbu.
"Meet ADA LOVELACE, the fast thinking mathematician. She predicted the power of computers long before they were even invented. Find out why her mum kept her away from her mega-famous celebrity dad; why she was mesmerised by mesmerism; and what she planned to do with a MASSIVE machine that weighed four tons and had 20,000 moving parts
Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the full might of the powerful Holekhors as alien airships fly in the skies over seventeenth century London.