Short Stories From A Very Long Past


THE CYPRUS CHRONICLES.

Every stone in Cyprus tells a story. True stories from 9000 years of history which Tom van Menzing picks up and wraps in totally fictitious plots: From a Stone Age love affair gone fatally wrong to a modern village’s distinctly illegal bounty on a troublesome dog. Along the way you’ll meet kings and saints, smugglers and ghosts, soldiers, lovers, and the occasional vengeful viper — all rooted in real places, complete with GPS coordinates, so you can stand exactly where the story happened. Read more

Hardcover (150 pages), Paperback (160 pages) and Kindle ebook are available now at Amazon 

The Mystery Thriller


DIVINE. A Novel.

Christian relics, ancient cults, and coldhearted conspiracy. 
Jay, an adolescent orphan, educated and smart beyond his years, discovers at his mother’s deathbed that he has been cloned. As he grapples with his centuries old bloodline, he finds himself in the crosshairs of an ambitious cardinal, an obscure Roman cult, and a group of Tibetan monks. The chase takes Jay from his dorm room at Ettal Abbey in Bavaria, to western Cyprus, and back to the foothills of the Alps. Stakes are high: he who wins Jay’s favor, will rule the Age of the Water Bearer. Read more

409 pages. Available at Amazon in paperback and as Kindle eBook.

Poetry meets Art


BARELY BEARABLE. The Trials Of A Transylvanian Mountain Bear.

The barely bearable adventures of Ursus and his family of Transylvanian mountain bears. 26 tongue in cheek episodes narrated in iambic tetrameter by Tom van Menzing illustrated with 12 original artworks in watercolour by Peter Hintz.
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26 poems. 12 original artworks. 80 pages. 8.5” x 11”. Hardcover. Available from Amazon 

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