Fiction

Lapland, 1897.

He stared down at the man lying on the reindeer skin, his clerical clothes so stained, the fair hair spread in a parody of a halo, matted curls crawling with lice, arms out-flung like the crucified Messiah. Was this what the girl he loved so passionately had sent him two thousand miles to rescue and bring back to her, a quest with the promise of marriage as his prize? How could this man be anything but a...

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In 1760, the city of Bath is frequented by visitors from afar as they partake in the city’s entertainment, marketplace and more so, the notorious trade in prostitution. Amid the day-to-day goings on in the city, a body is discovered; its face disfigured beyond any recognisable features begins to create fear amongst the townsfolk, and as such, an unnerving sequence of events begins to unravel.

Ben and his young whore, Ellie,...

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Canny Valley, properly known as College Valley in Northumberland is the setting of stories from the author's childhood. Mixing fact with fictional yarns, each tale carries words of intrigue and humour that will captivate the reader from the opening chapter. The dialect, which the author has craftily and carefully composed, is indicative of the Northumbrian area, and merely adds to the well-orchestrated prose.

The story is...

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Upon the death of her mother, Kit, in turn becomes one of The Gifted, able to shape-shift into feline form and secretly change the lives of humans. Her journey through the centuries provides stories which are chilling, humorous, bitter-sweet, mysterious, or shocking.

During her travels Kit encounters witchcraft in the eighteenth century, the Music Hall of the nineteenth century, organised crime in the Roaring Twenties,...

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When Richard Burkett shoots his victim in 1935, and gets away with it, he doesn't expect to be caught over seventy years later.

Zoe Peterson is shocked to find two police detectives – one being the captivating DC James Clark – interviewing her grandparents about an unsolved murder.

Simultaneously Cathy and Stephen endure emotional turmoil in...

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Almond-eyed model, Joy, visits a cosmetics company and two men – Duncan, a journalist and Otubi, a professor of genetics – are never to be the same again. Duncan would do everything to have Joy, who is the professor’s fiancée and when she dies in his car, it sends him into a self-destructive streak. Shocked, Otubi is driven by the loss into a morbid experiment of ‘breeding women’ as...

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Growing up in Ireland, Johnny's family is complex and full of spirit. It features an intricate tapestry of characters, from Johnny himself (a bewildered child trying to make sense of the world), to Granny (who is more streetwise than the family gives her credit for) to Annie, a regular at the family's pub. As Johnny tries to understand what the adults are talking about, the family deals with their day-to-day issues, a mysterious...

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Images of horror and anguish convince Sophie that her world is in disarray as she witnesses bizarre images that torment her soul. With little aid from the doctor on her psychological status, she eventually turns to her brother James, an esteemed Priest, and the one person who will help her to unravel the mysterious events that are about to unfold. As they together begin to investigate the unearthly happenings, their closest friends...

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Needs Must When the Devil Drives is the intense and moving story of three generations of working-class women living in Derbyshire in the last century. The frequently cold and brutal relationships with the men in their lives contrasts with the warm and protecting care of mothers, aunts, grandmothers and close female friendships in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the industrial heartland of Britain.

The novel opens with...

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When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. So ran the thoughts of Detective Inspector Thompson and his brilliant assistant Detective Sergeant Jenkins when they began their investigation into the disappearance of Tom Hughes on Boxing Day, 1962. That was the first day of the greatest winter Britain had endured for 200 years. Against a freezing backdrop the two sleuths uncover a...

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