Tiny Life and the Monster Head

Artists, bees and chimpanzees: everything that lives fights to survive.

The two heroes of this story – life-size human and miniature non-human – are both little people in a world of tiny lives. They are invisible to anyone that matters, and they have dreams that matter to nobody. But the smallest lives can make the biggest difference: if honeybees disappeared from the face of the Earth, humans might just hang on, but without a rebel or two in the ranks of the laboratory chimps, humanity is surely doomed.

Frankie Webb is a young beekeeper whose dream is to be an artist. With a father like his, this is a very dangerous secret. The paint is extremely useful, however, to a mouse-like midget called Tiny who is hiding a spectacular secret of his own: a miniature city of dreams, built from anything he can scavenge. When Frankie discovers it, the lives of Tiny and his only friend, Speck, are thrown into turmoil.

Encountering crooked art dealers, escaped lab freaks, and BMI riot bots, Tiny Life and the Monster Head is a story about survival: from the survival of honeybees in their battles with wasps and microscopic blood-suckers, all the way up to humans in their daily battles to beat the clock and to beat each other. It is a tale of minuscule proportions and giant themes for readers young and old: street artists, beekeepers and futurists among them.