Jason Ayres' books
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Surrey, 1986: Sent back in time after a lifetime trapped in a loveless marriage, Lucy Hart is determined to find the courage to take back control of her life. In 2025, reeling from the death of her husband, Lucy must face the truth, that she has wasted forty-five years with a man who never truly loved her. At his funeral, shocking revelations come to light, including affairs, a secret love child, and a will that tears her family apart. Given the chance to return to the past, Lucy finds herself back in 1986, in her comfortable suburban home, with two small children and a partner whose ambitions leave no room for hers. This time, she refuses to play the dutiful wife. Armed with the knowledge of what’s to come, Lucy begins creating her own range of natural soaps and shampoos, an idea that soon that blossoms into a thriving business....
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
England, 1985: Sent back in time to the year he lost everything, Robbie James is determined to turn the tables on the man who stole his future. In 2024, Robbie James is a brilliant IT developer who has just created an AI so advanced it can improve itself without human help. The result? He’s engineered himself out of a job. The man handing him his cards is Toby Fleming, a lifelong thorn in his side. So when Robbie is offered the chance to travel back forty years in time, he’s eager to settle the score. In 1985, teenage Robbie finds himself back at Splat!, a thriving video games and lifestyle magazine, working for Toby once again. But this time he knows what’s coming. Can he reclaim the groundbreaking game that should have made his name, save the girl who slipped through his fingers, and finally make it to the gig...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
London, 1984: For a gambler, it’s a dream come true – a bracelet that enables travel back in time, but one that comes with a catch. Robin “Nobby” Clarke is a lifelong punter who has frittered away his life gambling on cards and horses. With the next race or turn of the card taking priority over all else, he never found time for a career, a wife, or children. Now, it seems too late, until the chance comes to rewind the clock to when he was just twenty years old. Excited at the thought of making millions, Nobby is disappointed when he learns the rules: no using the bracelet for personal financial gain. But back in 1984, there are plenty of other things to worry about. His family business is struggling, his father is in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and his girlfriend has just dumped him. Vowing...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Cornwall, 1983: Offered the chance to return to the past, Jenna fights to protect her village – and save the man she loves. At 59, Jenna Rae is one of the last born-and-bred residents of Pencarven, a small settlement on Cornwall’s rugged north coast. Forty years ago, it was a cherished seaside village, but now it's become an exclusive retreat for the wealthy. Sent back to 1983, Jenna sees a chance to rewrite the future. She gets involved in local politics, takes on a corrupt councillor, confronts a ruthless film star, and vows to prevent the tragedy that once took her boyfriend’s life. But what can she do about the devastating flood she knows is on the way?
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Canberra, 2070: In the final, thrilling instalment of The Time Bubble series, the team faces their greatest peril yet. It’s been over half a century since teenagers Josh and Charlie first discovered the time portal in the tunnel that launched a lifetime of adventures. Now retired and living in his new country pad with his wife, Alice, Josh is forced to confront the reality of the team’s mortality, as the first of them passes on, unexpectedly. With his time travel and mind-transference technology, he stresses to the surviving members of the team that none of them needs to die. But events take an unexpected turn in the year 2070 when Earth's very existence is threatened. The world is shrinking, day by day, with entire countries and oceans disappearing as an unexplained anomaly consumes the planet. Yet apart from Josh and his fellow time travellers, the people seem oblivious to the...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Oxford, 1982: When struggling singer Wendy Wood is given a second shot at fame, she’s determined not to let it slip through her fingers. In 1982, Wendy Wood was all set for success. Lead singer of up-and-coming band Velvet Temptation, she was poised on the brink of stardom. But conflict within the band, betrayals, and sheer bad luck saw her dreams turn to dust. Forty years on, her health failing, Wendy finds solace in karaoke nights, each song a haunting reminder of what might have been. Then, she’s offered the chance to return to the past. Steadfast in her pursuit of the fame that once eluded her, can she make the most of this opportunity to rewrite her destiny?
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Oxford, 1981: When fifty-year-old Nick Taylor is cast back in time, he finds the past isn’t so easy to fix – especially now he’s only ten years old. 1981 was a year Nick would rather forget. His mother died in a plane crash, his father ran off with the babysitter, and he ended up at the worst school imaginable. Now he’s been gifted the chance to return to 1981, before the events that shaped his annus horribilis. Can he make the most of this opportunity to put things right?
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
London, 1980: Cast back into the beating heart of Fleet Street, journalist Keith Diamond finds himself with the power to rewrite the future. As the 2020s dawn, controversial radio DJ Keith Diamond is down on his luck, until he’s handed the opportunity to travel back in time. Arriving in the vibrant era of post-punk and new wave music, Keith relishes being back in his younger body, but soon, there are important tasks at hand. Resuming his old role as a tabloid journalist, Keith finds himself thrust into the news stories of the day, and quickly realises it’s not only his life he needs to turn around. Can he rectify past mistakes, avert disasters, and reshape both his future and that of others? Join Keith and immerse yourself in the events, music, and culture of the early 1980s in this engaging and thought-provoking time travel tale.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 2023: A sudden wave of unexplained disappearances sparks panic, leaving society on the brink of collapse. A lorry crashes on the M40, causing one of the worst pileups in years, yet the driver is nowhere to be found. In the days that follow, millions more people vanish without explanation, leaving investigators puzzled and plunging the government into crisis. Amid claims of alien abductions and prophecies of a biblical nature, Josh believes there may be another explanation involving time travel. But his theories will have to wait, because as the population dwindles at a terrifying pace, those who remain are plunged into a desperate battle for survival.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
England, 1974: When Ronnie and Bernard find themselves trapped in a seaside theatre, they come face to face with a music hall legend missing since 1906. After their long-running soap opera is axed, actors Ronnie and Bernard face differing fortunes. Bernard is much in demand, heading straight off to Yorkshire Television to film a new sitcom. Ronnie, on the other hand, looks washed up. With the only offer on the table being the new Bungle in Rainbow, things are bleak indeed. When millionaire holiday camp owner Bobby Burton offers Bernard the lead in his Christmas panto, he jumps at the chance and brings Ronnie along for the ride. Together they travel to the up-and-coming resort of Skegmouth, where a weekend of comedic mishaps ensues, mostly caused by Ronnie’s indiscretions. Eventually, they reach The Grand Theatre at the end of the pier, rumoured to be haunted by spirits from the past....
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
England, 1972: Daytime soap stars Ronnie and Bernard are drawn into a bizarre mystery involving a country estate, a stone circle, and a chamber that defies the laws of time. Ronnie is a hard-drinking, self-deluded dinosaur with a gift for exaggeration. Whether claiming he once shared a stage with Laurence Olivier or believing he’s destined to be the next James Bond, his imagination knows no bounds. Bernard, a stand-up comedian with a troubled past, is struggling to move on from a failed marriage. Despite this, his career is on the rise, while Ronnie’s is very much on the wane, a situation Ronnie is keen to correct. When Bernard’s uncle dies, the duo attend the will reading, only to discover that Bernard must spend a night in a remote country house to claim his inheritance. Thus begins an epic adventure involving ghostly apparitions, travel to both the past and the future,...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 2059: One woman. Five universes. One mission. The adventure of a lifetime is about to begin. While Lauren’s friends had spent the last four decades leaping backwards and forwards through time, she’d been pulling pints, running her pub, and keeping her feet firmly in the present. But when a crisis in the multiverse comes calling, she turns out to be the only one who can save the day. Embarking on a mission that will take her to five alternate timelines, Lauren soon finds herself in realities very different to her own. From a world enslaved by machines to another that hasn’t developed beyond 19th-century levels of technology, Lauren’s epic voyage brings danger at every turn.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Fuerteventura, 2023: On holiday in the Canary Islands, Henry Jones finds himself caught in a lethal time loop. Waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, Henry doesn't know where he is or even who he is. While he's wrestling with that, he falls victim to a tsunami, merely the first in a series of grisly fates coming his way as the same day repeats, over and over again. Making friends with Alice, the girl in the next apartment, the two of them try to piece together their fragmented memories to establish how they ended up in their predicament. Why have they been thrown back decades in time to their younger bodies? Why is every day the same, yet different? And why are they the only two people who can see what is going on? Can Henry and Alice unlock the secrets of the island and escape its deadly clutches, or will they...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 1988: Two men with knowledge of the future clash – one dedicated to preserving the timeline, while the other is determined to change it. Thomas Scott has lived his life twice before. He knows it’s vital to keep the timeline on track so he can meet his wife-to-be in the right place at the right time. Everything is going according to plan until a time traveller arrives from the future with other ideas. Ben Lewis, back in his eighteen-year-old body, has been given a second chance to put right the life he once squandered. Seizing the opportunity to gain wealth and power, he doesn’t care who he tramples on in the process. When their paths cross in Oxford in the late 1980s, Thomas warns Ben to stop – but his pleas fall on deaf ears. A decade later, the stage is set for an epic showdown amidst the blazing...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Canberra, 2055: When Josh’s time travel technology falls into the wrong hands, a murderous campaign begins, one that could threaten the entire world. At an advanced academic institute in Australia, Josh and Alice encounter scientists Henry and Vanessa Jones, pioneers of mind transference experiments. Together, they combine their technology to project consciousness back through time into their younger bodies, believing this will grant them immortality. After some initial success, unforeseen consequences emerge. As the timeline begins to shift and people start to vanish, the world becomes oblivious to their previous existence. Only those who have passed through a time bubble still remember them. But now, with a ruthless time-travelling assassin loose in the past, they are being hunted down and killed, one by one. Who is behind the murders, and why? Can they be stopped before there’s no one left?
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford 1992: Stranded in the past, Josh Gardner has more to worry about than getting home when historical figures from the past begin to turn up. Cut off from the technology he took for granted in the future, Josh must adapt to life in 1992, where every encounter is a living history lesson. Navigating a world of phone boxes and VHS tapes, he is just beginning to enjoy life before the digital revolution, when a new time travel mystery unfolds. Missing people from the past are beginning to turn up, from a World War One soldier to a famous author who vanished in 1952 – and none of them have aged a day.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford 2025: Amy Reynolds is lost in time - and it's always New Year's Eve. Trapped in a time loop, Amy’s reliving every New Year of her life, falling back a year each time the loop resets. As she grows progressively younger, she revisits a series of pivotal life events, realising she has the power to shape their outcomes. A cheating boyfriend, an alcoholic mother, and a sister tragically lost in a natural disaster all come under the spotlight as she seizes the chance to rewrite history. With the years passing rapidly, the reality of her impending mortality looms ever larger. Her only hope is to track down the mysterious stranger who sent her back through time, but he is nowhere to be found.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 2025: A time travel accident fractures the space-time continuum, leaving Josh lost in a series of terrifying parallel worlds. When his ex-girlfriend begins having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality, Josh Gardner becomes determined to prove the existence of other universes. Uncovering a focal point in time from which these worlds appear to stem, he travels back to January 2025 to investigate. However, his actions inadvertently trigger the very event he set out to observe. Cast adrift in the multiverse, Josh is stranded without a way home. As he leaps from world to world, falling further back in time, he encounters familiar faces living dramatically altered lives in realities wildly different from his own. And in alternate timelines ravaged by wars and pandemics, survival quickly becomes his only concern.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxfordshire, 2020: With her life in tatters, there seems to be no way back for Kay – until she’s handed the chance to return to the past. At 18, she had it all – brains, beauty, and ambitious plans for a dazzling career. By 43, she’s living alone above a chip shop, thrown out by her husband, who has traded her in for a younger model. Seeking solace in vodka and one-night stands, she can’t help but wonder where it all went wrong. Then she’s handed a lifeline: the chance to relive six days from her past. From investigating her cheating, corrupt husband to rekindling an old flame, she soon learns how to make the most of her second chances. Yet will attempting to track down a killer in the community be her undoing?
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxfordshire, 2020: Richard Kent is about to be offered the most extraordinary opportunity – to live any six days of his life over again. Kicked out of his job, ignored by his kids, and the butt of everyone's jokes in the pub, nothing is going right for Kent. Increasingly disillusioned with modern life, he spends his days reminiscing about a youth he will never see again - or will he? When a mysterious benefactor offers him six trips to the past, Kent seizes the chance, starting with a journey back to 1984 to buy his first record. Later, he gets a second bite at an unfulfilled teenage crush, plus a chance to wreak revenge on his malevolent boss armed with nothing but a large rubber Brontosaurus!
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 2063 – Thrown decades forward in time, Daniel Fisher finds himself cast adrift in a world that has left him behind. Stranded in a bewildering future, Dan struggles to adapt and is soon arrested for breaking into a home that is no longer his. Under police investigation, he’s unable to prove his identity, as, according to official records, he was long ago declared legally dead. Determined to return to his own time, a vengeful Dan vows to track down those responsible for his predicament, who, by now, have mastered the ability to travel into the past.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Oxford, 2025: Meet Thomas Scott – a man about to embark on an incredible and unprecedented journey: an entire life lived in reverse. When Thomas wakes up in hospital, he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. All he knows is that he’s terminally ill, and this is the final day of his life. Or is it? The next time he wakes, it’s the previous day, and as more time passes, it becomes clear that the calendar is running in reverse. At first, he struggles to navigate this strange new reality. How can he form connections or make plans when his tomorrow is everybody else’s yesterday? Realising that he has already lived his life once, he sets out to investigate his past. Learning of his wife’s death and an attack on his daughter, he prepares to change events when those moments arrive, to alter the...
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
England, 2029: A decade after the events of The Time Bubble, the world is gripped by a catastrophic climate event. A new time bubble is discovered near St Ives in Cornwall but before the team can investigate, an asteroid strike triggers a relentless winter that grips Britain. With the food chain broken, the transport network paralysed, and energy supplies failing, the residents of a small market town must confront a life-altering decision. Do they flee south, seeking refuge from the sub-zero temperatures, or stay in their homes and hope for a reprieve? Amid the frozen turmoil, not everyone is seeking warmth and safety. Dark motives emerge as some exploit the dire circumstances for their advantage, turning the struggle for resources into a treacherous battle for power.
Genres: Humour, Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
England, 2018: The discovery of the ability to jump forward in time kicks off a life-changing series of adventures. In the opening story of this fifteen-book time travel series, a group of friends discover a time portal that propels anyone who enters into the future. At first, it’s just seconds, then minutes, then hours. But as the leaps grow longer, what started as a curiousity soon presents a serious problem. When a teenage girl disappears for two days, suspicion falls on her boyfriend. How can he explain where she is?




























