Complete List of All My Titles — eBook, Audiobook & Paperback
My works fall into seven categories: Roman à clef, horror, erotic, dystopian, satirical, roman à clef short stories, and poetry:
🏃 Roman à Clef — The Great Escape Series
The Great Escape series by Jack Freestone is a raw, immersive collection of novels and stories that blends travel, surf culture, and the restless search for identity. Opening with a lawman-turned-drifter on the road through New Zealand, the series quickly slips into a stream of encounters—waves chased, friendships tested, women desired, and choices abandoned. Freestone’s narrator is always in motion, pulled by the ocean and haunted by past lives in the courtroom, moving through smoky parties, coastal motels, and the vibrant undercurrents of places where art, freedom, and chaos collide.
At once confessional and observational, the series captures the tension between order and abandon, law and art, security and risk. Surfing, music, alcohol, women, blackjack gambling and wandering form the pulse of the narrative, but beneath the surface runs a sharper meditation on identity, belonging, and the reckless beauty of youth.
The Great Escape is not just a series of stories about place—it’s a restless journey into the mind of a man standing at the blurred edge between self-destruction and self-discovery.
His travels include New Zealand, Australia, Bali, China, England, Ireland, Germany, and Paris, France.
1. Bali Fungus
The first book of The Great Escape series, based upon the author's experiences traveling and surfing after he quit law in New Zealand, and his relationship with a beautiful photographer.
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2. No Rest for the Wandering Soul
The book follows the author's experiences after working in a London law firm in 1999, spending the millennium in Ireland, and returning to the Gold Coast. It is Book 2 of The Great Escape, the sequel to Bali Fungus and prequel to The Fake Celebrity in China.
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3. The Fake Celebrity in China
The author's first novel, a tale of debauchery - sex, booze and drugs, which follows the experiences of an English teacher in China during the happy "boom times" when China won the right to host the Olympics and was accepted into the World Trade Organization. The book also describes the author's time in Beijing during the SARS epidemic. Written in a frank but humorous style, this work provides many insights into modern Chinese society. China Laid Bare is the sequel to this book.
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4. China Laid Bare
After getting booted out of China for his book, The Fake Celebrity in China, the author returns with a no-holds-barred account of his final years in the country. He lays bare the corruption, the filth, the lies, and trickery, that exist in everyday Chinese society. The magic years for expats are over, and the Chinese are becoming overly nationalistic, commonly referring to foreigners as, “foreign Devils”. Frankie, his Hainanese Passepartout, and partner in debauchery, returns as his faithful travel companion in this entertaining romp.
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5. Weirdly Bland
The sequel to the novel, China Laid Bare, which describes the author's time living in Germany.
"I often tried to think of words to describe the German people. The best I could come up with was weirdly bland or blandly weird. In the end, I settled for weirdly bland."
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6. Boomerang
Book 6 of Jack Freestone's The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland and prequel to Bruce Grove. A novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, blackjack gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
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7. Bruce Grove
A novella based upon the author's time spent living in Bruce Grove, London. Book 7 of The Great Escape series.
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8. Why Paris? — Pre-order
The author describes his decision to move to Paris in 2015 and what it was like living there.
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🩸 Horror
Cusala
You may believe, but do you really really believe? An evil girl conjures up a demon and tests the faith of Christians, with deadly consequences. Jack Freestone's occult novella. Not for the faint of heart.
"A chilling, unputdownable blend of psychological horror and supernatural suspense—Cusala cements Jack Freestone as a master of modern terror." – Daily Telegraph NZ
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Abramelin
In Abramelin, the magic doesn’t wait for permission—once you awaken it, the danger coils around you like a living force, tightening with every step you take. It moves with an ancient intent, patient and merciless, reshaping the path until the only way out is through.
Violet Rose, a creative writing graduate with a drinking problem and a penchant for the occult, makes the decision to treat the Abramelin ritual as her own private rehab method and soon begins to regret that choice.
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The Point
A group of surfers travel to a remote Western Australian surf point and discover something chilling and deadly.
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Slice
A psychopathic killer in the seaside town of Worthing, with an obsession for girls with breast implants, goes on a savage and bloody rampage.
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Homeless Souls
Being homeless was the least of his worries.
A beautiful romance horror set in Paddington Old Cemetery, London, England.
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Pool of Blood
In the heart of Brisbane, a wave pool hides chilling secrets beneath its perfect swells. This is surfing noir at its darkest—where every wave could be your last.
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🌆 Dystopian
The Pures
Set in a post-Covid dystopian future, where men sell their sperm for a small fortune, and celebrities are hunted down by revengeful mobs. One man, will decide the fate of a beautiful superstar, whether she will be set free, or sent to the brutal inquisitors.
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More Keira than Keira
The time for cloning of celebrities has arrived, and a young girl discovers that her life is not what she thought it was.
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🗞️ Satire
The Control Sickness
The author's first novella, a satirical but humorous piece, based upon his experiences as a defence lawyer in New Zealand.
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🔥 Erotic
La Petite Mort
Anita has a problem. Henry cannot or will not come. Find out how she overcomes this problem, and the mysteries of Henry's blue balls!
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Hickey
Erotic short story involving a much older lady and a university student.
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Cradle Snatcher
A sexual encounter involving a university student and a teenage girl.
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Blind Escort
Erotic short story concerning sexual fantasies, and their complexities in the real world.
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A Rash Affair
Short story about an internet dating encounter.
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🏃 Roman à Clef Short Stories
Whale Bay, Raglan, New Zealand
An autobiographical piece, based upon the author's experiences surfing, and living in a cottage at Whale Bay, Raglan, New Zealand.
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The Bathing
A series of autobiographical short stories, where the author recalls his university days studying law at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, staying at the hostel Selwyn College, and a student flat on Castle Street, plus working as security at the Sweetwaters Music Festival at Pukekawa.
This one concerned with the Selwyn College tradition of bathing, as a punishment.
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Sweetwaters Music Festival, New Zealand, 1983
An autobiographical short story, concerning the author's summer vacation working experiences in a concrete works at Kaiwaka, which led to him being hired as security for the 1983 Sweetwaters Music Festival in Pukekawa, New Zealand.
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Helping the Homeless in Worthing
Short story based upon the author's experiences with the homeless alcoholics in Worthing, West Sussex, England.
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Mangawhai, New Zealand
Short story based upon the author's true fishing experiences as a teenager in his hometown Mangawhai, Northland, New Zealand.
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📖 Poetry
Dark Days and Dangerous Nights
The author began writing poetry when he lived in Paris in 2015. This is his first and only collection.
SPONGE
That is the plight of the writer
Plied with alcohol
In the name of the dream
Squeezed and broken
Almost to death
Until a few drops
Of genius
Bleed
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