The Unqualified Accountant

Colin was born into a respectable middle-class family in a typical English country town. His father, a firm believer in the power of education for a successful career, never tired of emphasizing its importance. With a natural aptitude for figures and mental arithmetic, Colin steadily advanced through a series of increasingly responsible financial positions without the need for professional qualifications. However, one misstep from the straight and narrow path led to a dramatic change in his circumstances.

Supported by his wife and parents during this difficult time, Colin faced a significant challenge: his lack of a professional qualification threatened to bar him from a senior position well within his capabilities. Determined to overcome this obstacle, he decided to study and become a Chartered Accountant. But his attraction to his teacher turned out to be far from the happy affair he had envisioned. Colin soon discovered that a downward career path is often easier to follow than an upward one.

Talking Feet

After the loss of her husband, Jack, Molly faces an uncertain future. She embarks on a quest to secure the survival of the steel sculpture museum they built together. Against the backdrop of her ongoing struggles with obstructive Officials, copious amounts of red tape and the British weather, she finds herself thrust into the role of amateur detective, when a bizarre and unexpected incident, leads her to confront forces that could threaten everything she holds dear. Can Molly unravel the truth behind this perplexing mystery, while ensuring the museum’s enduring legacy?

The Stag's Head

When Ken, the previous landlord of The Stag’s Head, committed suicide, the pub sat empty for a while until three young men took over running it. Could they make a success of this lonely old pub in the heat of the Herefordshire countryside? Would their lives simply devolve into tedious conversations about the state of the crops with local farmers? Not if they could help it!

The new landlords had plenty of fresh ideas for how to transform The Stag’s Head into a popular village pub and real community hub. And for one of the men, taking over operations also unexpectedly led him to find love along the way. 

‘He whom love touches not walks in darkness’
– Plato

For the Time Being

This is a novel about the discovery of age. For the Time Being heralds changed ownership for upmarket care home Grantham Glade.

After Making Old Bones, For the Time Being offers more insights and observations about the residents, their families and staff. In those busy corridors, flights of fancy, journeys of discovery, the gentle rolling of the day-to-day or, from time to time, the ache of grief make up the fabric of care now that the Baby Boom has become the Elder Epoch. Springtime sees the burgeoning of business for the owners and some of the staff with an uplift in the spirits of residents who have made or have been made to regard Grantham Glade their home.

In the beginning of this new year, under its very new, very corporate mantle, Grantham Glade has been startled by a fate that is possibly more difficult to manage than death when it is discovered that someone is has gone missing…

The Meeting of the Feeling

The handsome Ben Thomas is one of four deputies to the Director of Education in a town hall in the south of England. His main interests are his feud with Andy Patfoul, an Inspector; his pursuit of Linda Foxton, his would-be girlfriend; and his love of intrigue.

This leads him into the clutches of a powerful politician who wants Ben to take part in an ambitious scheme to renovate the city. He also becomes involved with a devious priest. He humiliates the headteacher in an interview and his wife suspects his affair with Lindy. He appoints a useless candidate to Andy’s team. His father-in-law evicts him from his home. His enemies are meeting each other. Ben needs a miracle!

Fragments of a Life

A successful, popular man; a broken childhood sends the course of Peter Brooke’s life into a downward spiral when, at the end of his life, he finds himself rejected and alone.

Only one woman has the power to help him.

Who is she?

What part did she play in Peter’s life?

What is the bond between them?

Will Peter ever find the peace he has struggled all his life to secure, or will he forever be tortured by his demons?

The Love She Forgot

Beatrice Schofield thought she had everything she wanted in life. She had a loving boyfriend, a great home and a fantastic job. What more could she wish for? Then Beatrice loses everything. Her boyfriend, her home and her job are no longer hers. Shellshocked, she moves in with her brother Ben as she tries to move on from an exploded life, picking up the pieces. She accepts a new job, working behind a bar in the city with her brother’s best friend and roommate, Matt. All Beatrice wants to do is move forward and heal from the shock of what happened. Then Beatrice wakes up in hospital after an accident and the last eight months of her life are a complete blank in her mind.

What happened to her boyfriend, her home, her job, why did she walk away from everything? How did she come to own the items she doesn’t recognise in her room? What was she doing with her life, who was she with, was she happy?

Beatrice sets on a mission to understand what happened to the life she had loved, and who she became in the time she cannot remember.

If Wishes Were Horses

The Australian outback can be a harsh and hostile place to live, and the boy’s home is no different.

Sam must escape his abusive father for any hope of a future, but living on the street pushes him to the brink as he’s forced to make difficult choices to survive.

This is a gritty tale of dangerous lies and secrets that stretch far and wide.

Events can’t just be erased without people answering for what they’ve done.

The Last Report

Gwen, a renowned news reporter in Sydney, dedicates her life to exposing the devastating global climate crisis, hoping her work will drive change. Amidst the chaos, Gwen shares an unbreakable bond with her boyfriend, Tom. When Tom is offered a job in London, they face the challenge of a long-distance relationship.

As their lives diverge, the world plunges further into crisis, with a new virus emerging as a consequence of climate change. Gwen falls victim to the illness, and her passing leaves Tom shattered.

Tom eventually rebuilds his life, finding love and starting a family. Yet, the world continues to grapple with the consequences of the climate crisis. Gwen’s legacy lives on, inspiring those who knew her and readers of her work. She is remembered as a tireless warrior who fought for a better, healthier world.

Saving the World, One Mix-Tape at a Time

Nicky is sixteen and lives in a dull Northern town in 1978, but science fiction, music, and his colourful friends give him a sense of purpose. Then, he meets Angela, everything changes, and he takes teenage alienation to a whole new level.

Saving the World, One Mix-Tape at a Time is a coming-of-age story set in reality… and beyond. Nicky, aimless and at odds with his parents, finds solace in science fiction and his quirky misfit friends. His problems are simple: he knows too many kids named Paul, he wants to date a girl, and he has far too much on his mind. However, when he meets Angela, his reality is turned upside down, and nothing is as it first seems. As Nicky navigates the tough year of 1978, he discovers that life is full of surprising alternatives and that sometimes the most unexpected and strangest events can change our lives forever.

Told through Nicky’s vivid experiences and misadventures with his friends, Saving the World, One Mix-Tape at a Time blends sci-fi, punk rock, and the bittersweet memories of first love. It explores themes of adolescent angst, friendship, and the transcendent power of imagination during a time of turbulent social change and literal teenage alienation.

Sarah Sommerfeld: So Deep Is the Heart WWII

This evocative narrative weaves together medical insights, psychological analyses, philosophical musings, and spiritual reflections to explore the theme of love: the core and essence of our very being, the perpetual yearning of our deepest true self. As fashioned in and after Love’s image and likeness, love ever seeks its fulfilment; and the closer touched, the stronger it draws, as seeking its own perfected end. And from the joyous foretasting sips here, the measure of contentment of future fulness may wisely be guessed at. And since the subconscious depths of the heart are surfaced by crises such as war, its study then is particularly instructive, namely of true feeling, humanity, compassion – as of a different level and type of happiness.

Set against the backdrop of wartime Germany, the story centres on two interconnected families. One family endures the harsh realities of urban warfare, while in a rural setting, a grandfather discovers four Jewish children and a French outcast hiding in the woods. He hides them on his farm. Naturally, relationships developed and bloomed. Among these, however, one relationship fails tragically, the loss leading to a poignant journey of desperately seeking solace – culminating in an encounter with Sarah. This book is not just a tale of love of some common peoples’ joys and sorrows but a quest to better understand the very nature of the human heart and its profound, universal principles.

Elim-15

This story centers on an Australian Elon Musk-type character who drives the narrative. Follow the fortunes of Nicole, an ex-RAAF Elec Fitter turned Aerospace Engineer, as she is recruited by Aaron Daniels, the CEO of CosmoTechs, to work on his star craft.

Set in Queensland, the story parallels contemporary space exploration. Join Nicole and Aaron as they navigate the uncertain world of space exploration, balancing cutting-edge technology with age-old Indigenous land rights. Nicole is an engineer, not a negotiator – how can she secure a win-win deal while ensuring Elim15 works for CosmoTechs?

Experience the ups and downs of the burgeoning Australian space industry through close calls and skillful maneuvers. This story elevates sleepy Cooktown to international prominence, culminating in an unexpected rescue mission, moon landings, and treacherous cis-lunar voyages back to Earth orbit.