With guardian angels, a cursed centaur and mythical saints, Lance Corporal Archie Fletcher battles his way through Transit, discovering an underwater world of ancient secrets and brawling with wild lions, enraged charioteers and venomous plants. With the Moon’s trickery endangering his sanity and a three headed dragon that never sleeps blocking his path, Dead Game is no easy feat. The fantasy will whisk you away to a parallel world confirming the knowing deep within us all that the adventure of life must go on. 

Dead Game is an extraordinary story of triumph over adversity; its message of hope will stay with you long after you have read the final page.
Claire Kinton is a member of the New Writers UK, a non-profit-making support group for writers.  Claire has been writing since she was a child, usually making up mystical stories for her own enjoyment, but her inspiration to write Dead Game was ignited following the tragic death of her cousin, who served in Iraq with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.  Stricken with grief and pregnant with her first child, Claire found writing her way of coping with her bereavement.  Three children later and after six years of living by an RAF camp with husband Gareth, Claire has forged close friendships with families whose young men risk - and all too often lose - their lives serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Witnessing at first hand the heartbreak of loss that conjures a multitude of emotions, particularly in children and young adults, spurred Claire on to complete Dead Game. For some young minds it is not enough to say ‘He’s gone to Heaven’, they need to know why, what happens next, how long will they be gone? Dead Game is Claire’s way of answering these poignant questions.  Uplifting all those who have ever loved and lost, Dead Game strives to put forward one answer to death and at the same time teaches us; we are what we think; love never dies and that the human soul continues eternally.

Dead Game was short listed for the Brit Writers Awards 2010 and came eighth in the multimedia Shorty Awards, in the author’s category; three places behind Harry Potters author JK Rowling.