Circus is a story that dives headlong into a maelstrom-one man's journey (Marcus Morrissey Argent) from certainty to chaos, a life unravelled by the police, the media, friends and family, before courtroom lights and under the scrutiny of a world quick to judge but slow to understand. Circus does not merely recount a sequence of events; it lingers in the moments of doubt, the echoes of conversations, the silent reckonings that shift the soul. This is not just a story of loss, but of how quickly the scaffolding of privilege and comfort can be torn away, leaving only raw questions and the ache of memory for what he has lost.
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Stephen. L. West was born in the UK but moved to South Australia in the mid-sixties growing up mainly in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. At seventeen he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy where he learnt his trade. Whilst still serving, he married Trudi in nineteen eighty. After a ten-year career he joined the New South Wales Fire Brigades before the family, now four with two children, decided to move back to South Australia.
His writing career started in the late nineteen-eighties creating technical manuals which soon led to looking further afield and dabbling in fiction. As an amateur astronomer with a lot of interest in other sciences, he decided to write his first science fiction novel.
'I had this thing going around and around inside my head so I decided one day to get it out of there and onto paper.'
Stephen and Trudi still live in South Australia, in the mid-north and are both involved with the Country Fire Service, Stephen as a firefighter and Trudi as a financial coordinator. Their family has expanded to six grandchildren (with more to come).