Tankbread has now been published by Permuted Press. You can find the current edition amazon.com/Tankbread-ebook/dp/B00BVRQ... Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival against a spreading plague that brought the dead back to life as flesh eating monsters. Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding the undead a steady diet of cloned people called Tankbread, the survivors live in a dangerous world on the brink of final extinction. One outlaw courier must go on a journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia. Fighting his way into the very heart of the apocalypse in the desperate search for a way to save the last humans and destroy the undead threat. His only companion is a girl with an extraordinary secret. Her name is Else and she's Tankbread Praise for Tankbread Paul Mannering's TANKBREAD is a guts and glory joyride into very dark territory. Very nasty and lots of fun!" ~ Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and DUST & DECAY Mannering's take on the post-zombie apocalypse is scarifyingly real. Baked dog while you take orders from your zombie master anyone? Sink your teeth into an Australia where the zombies are in charge - you won't be disappointed. ~ Rocky Wood, author of STEPHEN A LITERARY COMPANION and HORRORS! GREAT STORIES OF FEAR AND THEIR CREATORS "Tankbread reads like a tick-list of genre tens of thousands of zombies, a brave, wise-cracking warrior hero, a beautiful woman who might just hold the key to everything, mad scientists, and even a knight in shining armour and a helicopter-piloting mother superior thrown into the mix! And yet the whole is far greater than the sum of its disparate parts. Tankbread is a blast from start to finish. A breathless, country-crossing zombie epic - kind of like Mad Max colliding head on with Dawn of the Dead. Mixing great action scenes, laugh-out loud moments, copious amounts of horror and lead characters you really grow to give a damn about, Tankbread is a unique and very entertaining entry in the over-saturated zombie genre. Read it and enjoy it - I did." ~ David Moody, author of the AUTUMN and HATER series.

Nine months after the Courier sacrificed himself to destroy the Adam and reduced the intelligent evols to shambling, mindless zombies, Else is preparing to give birth to the son of the man she loved. The child is born during a terrible storm, and feral zombies attack Else’s house in the Queensland bush. She must battle zombies, crocodiles and the elements to get her newborn son to safety. The child is lost when Else’s small boat is swept away on flood waters. She joins forces with an Aboriginal hunter called Jirra to track the boat down the river to the sea – hoping that her baby is still alive. Together they discover that the child has been taken by the Sea People. Human survivors that live on a derelict ship anchored off shore. Else continues her search – reaching the ship and discovering that a rag-tag tribe of human survivors live below decks, building their own mythology under the iron rule of the evol Captain and crew. Most newborns are given to the crew – the stem-cell rich infants are enough to keep the evols functioning as intelligent dead. Else encounters the different factions living in the superstructure, the Holders, The Engineers and The Fishermen. The first half of the book comes to an explosive conclusion as Else rescues her son and destroys the ship. In part 2 Else finds herself the unwilling leader of a band of survivors who have not been on land in years. She decides to lead them to Mildura, where she hopes that Sister Mary will have a place for them. The journey across the wasteland of Australia is hard and Else must learn to be a leader while struggling with her own demons and doubts. As the numbers of survivors grow Else is forced to make hard decisions. The sanctuary of Mildura is not as she had hoped – the scientist Donna is recreating the Tankbread programme – and wants to use Else and her son as tissue for experimentation. After a hard fought battle against Donna and the hordes of dead, Else leads her growing tribe of survivors to a new life – and in her son she sees hope for a future.

200 Years ago the age of Humankind ended in an apocalypse of blood and terror. In Australia, sixteen year old Gin is planning her wedding and awaiting the rumoured arrival of a living legend. When her life is torn apart by tragedy, Gin must travel far from her village to the distant shores of old America, where intelligent zombies still rule. Drawn into a secret conspiracy 200 years in the making, Gin's odyssey will send her into a living hell of savagery and terror. If she survives, her world will be forever changed, and humanity will be saved from final extinction.