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In a future Denmark, Karl Nielsen, Royal Clockmaker, is recalled to the Round Tower to design the King's most ambitious project yet - a vehicle to travel into space. The second volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series is a quirky, humorous tale of Nordic monarchs, Irish monks, jazz records, airships, submarines, spacecraft and conspiracies.

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After his explosive debut in Kingdom of Clockwork, Billy O'Shea really hits his stride in the sequel. Where we left our hero, he had turned his back on the intrigues of statecraft and the misfortunes of war to exercise his profession as clockmaker in a quiet little town. Too quiet, of course. Billy O'Shea's wind-up world has grown, and now ticks with multiple plot lines, all of them suspenseful, and new cultures and subcultures. Wheels within wheels! - Tony Crawford, Amazon Page-turning, political, clockpunk, quick reads with lots of crazy ideas and insane worldbuilding. Highly enjoyable. - Sidsel Pederson, Amazon

"""After his explosive debut in Kingdom of Clockwork, Billy O'Shea really hits his stride in the sequel. Where we left our hero, he had turned his back on the intrigues of statecraft and the misfortunes of war to exercise his profession as clockmaker in a quiet little town. Too quiet, of course. Billy O'Shea's wind-up world has grown, and now ticks with multiple plot lines, all of them suspenseful, and new cultures and subcultures. Wheels within wheels!"" - Tony Crawford, Amazon ""Page-turning, political, clockpunk, quick reads with lots of crazy ideas and insane worldbuilding. Highly enjoyable."" - Sidsel Pederson, Amazon"

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Billy O'Shea grew up at an airport on the west coast of Ireland.He studied at Trinity College Dublin and Mountjoy Jail, but dropped out of both before completing his education. He then briefly pursued a career as a sitcom saboteur with the Irish television station RTE before being washed out of the country in the great emigration wave of 1980.He landed in Denmark and struck out as a ballad singer at night, while living a double life as a student in the daytime.He was awarded a gold medal by the University of Copenhagen in 2000 and shook hands with Queen Margrethe. After that he refused to shake hands with anyone else ever again, for which reason he was denied Danish citizenship in 2022 and sought asylum in Svalbard, near the North Pole.He has written several novels, which have been translated into Finnish and Chinese, to the puzzlement of many. His work is not recommended for the sound of mind or adults above the age of 80.

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