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His first major work as Simon Hawke was the "Timewars" series, which recounts adventures of an organisation tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travellers.
In the world of the series, many people and events we consider fictional are historical, and vice versa; the action of each book in the series weaves in and out of the events of a famous work of literature. In the first book in the series, for instance, time travellers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.
Among his more recent works are a series of humorous murder mysteries in which a young William Shakespeare and a fictional friend, Symington "Tuck" Smythe, figure out "who done it". The series has been criticized for historical inaccuracy, with many anachronisms and factual errors, and its poor reproduction of Elizabethan speech; arguably, however, many of these "faults" are deliberate acts of comic artistic licence. The series' comedy has also been criticized, seen by some as too similar to works such as the film Shakespeare in Love.
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(incomplete)Shakespeare & Smythe mysteries
The Reluctant Sorcerer
Steele
Wizard series
Time Wars
Boomerang
Psychodrome