The Undiscovered Country is my second novel, currently in progress. Set in 1664, on the cusp of the Great Plague, it follows a shifting cast of voices—royal guards, scientists, revolutionaries and a strange viral-cosmic presence—through a Europe haunted by contagion, paranoia, and revelation. At its heart is Mary Evans, a servant whose brush with death draws her into a vision of the cosmos as a vast, indifferent maelstrom. Blending diary fragments, letters, court gossip, and the dispassionate gaze of a “mechanical eye,” the novel stages an experimental and provocative intervention into history, where plague becomes inseparable from a more unsettling outbreak: an infection carried from the stars.

Emerging from my earlier work in screenwriting, The Undiscovered Country began life as a ten-part television drama concept before evolving into an experimental literary novel. Its hybrid form—cross-cutting voices, fractured documents, and choric cosmic commentary—resists conventional narration in favour of a more unsettling polyphony. The project extends my interest in surrealist and avant-garde forms into the terrain of historical fiction, reimagining the seventeenth century as a landscape where science, superstition, and cosmic indifference collide.