Julian Bryant. A successful, well-off lawyer. Nice flat, plenty of money, and a wide circle of friends. Gay, but discreet. A man with everything. Out shopping one afternoon, he meets Kim. Recently arrived from Hong Kong, he has nothing except his wit and charm. Beautiful, intriguing and fascinating, Julian is instinctively drawn to him. Two men from very different worlds but sharing the same passion. They embark on a series of games – games that Julian cannot resist. But Kim is a man with a past. And a man with a plan. And Julian’s life is about to turn into Big Dipper: a terrifying roller-coaster ride from which there is no escape. ‘Big Dipper’ is a gripping, page-turning mystery thriller that exerts an icy grip on the reader – and doesn’t let up from the first page to the last. From a fascinating beginning, as the relationship between two men from very different world slowly develops, it builds towards a heart-stopping finale.
Author
Stephen Wyatt was educated at Latymer Upper School and then Clare College, Cambridge. After a brief spell as Lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University, he began his career as a freelance playwright in 1975 as writer/researcher with the Belgrade Theatre Coventry in Education team. His subsequent young people's theatre work includes The Magic Cabbage (Unicorn 1978), Monster (York Theatre Royal 1979) and The Witch of Wapping (Half Moon 1980). In 1982 and 1983 he was Resident Writer with the Bubble Theatre for whom he wrote Glitterballs and The Rogue's Progress. Other theatre work includes After Shave (Apollo Theatre 1978), R.I.P Maria Callas (Edinburgh Festival / Hen and Chickens 1992), A working woman (from Zola's L'Assommoir) (West Yorkshire Playhouse 1992) and The Standard Bearer (Man in the Moon 2001). He also collaborated with Jeff Clarke on The Burglar's Opera for Opera della Luna (2004) "stolen from an idea by W. S. Gilbert with music nicked from Sir Arthur Sullivan". His first work for television was Claws, filmed by the BBC in 1987, starring Simon Jones and Brenda Blethyn. Wyatt then went on to write two scripts for the science fiction series Doctor Who—these were Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Both of those serials featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. His other television credits include scripts for The House of Eliott and Casualty. He has worked for BBC Radio since 1985 as both an adapter and an original playwright.
