LATEST - INTERNATIONAL “TIME TRAVELLER” writes 40+ Egypt AND mystery thrillers ON THE ROAD in outback Australia.

In a sense we are all TIME TRAVELLERS. Some of just go back a little further than others - in age and in our imaginative flights.

After life in Africa and Australia and a career in international advertising, interspersed with numerous visits to my heartland place of Egypt, I made an exodus from the big city of Sydney to the wilderness of Australia, where I became a writer – and virtual Time Traveller - on the road. This time my wife Brenda and I journeyed in search of mystery across the world’s biggest island continent. We travelled in a Mercedes Benz motor home.

And there I wrote close to fifty novels, mostly about ancient Egypt, but several about the mystery of Australia (The Poisoned Well, Hero Virus and Lightning Ridge.)

Proving, if nothing else, that I could write books on the dark side of the moon. Ironically, Australia has not been an escape from my heartland of Egypt. Echoes are everywhere. Deserts like Egypt, acacia and baobabs trees like Africa’s, crocodiles, the white ibis bird, symbol of the Egyptian god Thoth who features in many of my novels. The bird’s curved surgical beak, white feathers and ugly-elegant black head and neck constantly appear in my vision like a living hieroglyph.

Sadly, the African sacred ibis went extinct in Egypt around 1850. Yet today, the bird's close kin, the Australian white ibis (classified as the same species until the 1990s), roams freely across the continent. The sacred white ibis features most notably in The Ibis Apocalypse, my archaeological thriller novel about the so-called Book of Thoth, said to have been written by Thoth, god of magic, wisdom, writing and science and in this novel the forbidden tome of magical power took the form of a stone tablet.

Here are some of my LATEST titles - and some of the range!

Footnotes: Also not shown are 13 children’s and YA titles, including award-winning “Tomb Travellers” - authored as Roy Pond. Below, some Roy Pond awarded advertising highlights.