One Epic Year is a sci-fi thriller trilogy following a group of friends through nine uniquely explosive adventures, blending time loops, alien invasions, and dramatic heists across iconic British holidays.
Experience a year where each day unfolds a new genre. Dive into One Epic Year, the muti-genre trilogy that’s redefining storytelling.
What if your local pub was the epicentre of something ancient, cosmic… and ready to explode?
One Epic Year is a bold, genre-defying sci-fi thriller trilogy, with each gripping instalment unfolding on a different iconic date. Every book immerses you in a unique tone, style, and emotional rollercoaster.
It all begins on New Year’s Day. Four friends wake locked in a pub cellar, memories wiped clean, and a nagging sense that something is terrifyingly wrong. This sets off a year of escalating chaos as reality fractures, time loops unfold, and a sinister presence stalks them from the shadows.
But this is more than just another story—it’s an epic mash-up of nine cinematic genres, one fractured timeline, and an unbreakable friendship tested to the limit.
Experience Each Explosive Day:
- New Year’s Day – Coming-of-age Nostalgia
Think The Breakfast Club, but with mystery and a hangover. - Valentine’s Day – Romantic Comedy
Like Love Actually, if someone crashed the wedding. - Good Friday – Dark Psychological Thriller
Netflix’s Dark meets BBC’s Luther. - Easter Sunday – Sci-Fi Adventure
Doctor Who energy, with a chilling twist. - August Bank Holiday – Heist Thriller
Ocean’s Eleven set in a pub—with higher stakes. - Guy Fawkes Night – Spy Thriller
The betrayal and intensity of Bond meets Bourne. - Christmas Day – Festive Road Trip Chaos
Imagine Nativity blended with Dickens, plus unexpected plane crashes. - New Year’s Eve – Apocalyptic Alien Action
Independence Day meets Avengers: Endgame, with a dash of Power Rangers (yes, seriously).
Perfect for Readers Who Love:
- Fast-paced trilogies that build tension and escalate stakes.
- Dark British humour paired with emotionally driven characters.
- Found-family stories laced with sci-fi twists and turns.
- Adventures that defy genres and break traditional storytelling boundaries.
All three FREE to read in Kindle Unlimited
Meet the Author
James Anderson is a screenwriter-turned-novelist who blends grounded characters with surreal, high-concept storytelling. A lifelong fan of film and TV, he’s drawn to stories that shift tone and genre — just like his debut trilogy, One Epic Year.
The series began as a ten-episode screenplay, first imagined during a quiet 2017 holiday where the Halloween and Guy Fawkes sections took shape. Inspired by his old local pub in Walthamstow, the story mixes time loops, spy thrillers, apocalyptic sci-fi, and more — with each day in the year shifting genres.
James grew up writing, even running a story club in primary school and winning local competitions. He later worked in retail and marketing, writing privately for years before bringing One Epic Year to life.
When not writing, he works on set, dodges stunt rigs, and drinks far too much coffee while plotting strange things.
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