In Angel Hill, the disappearance of seven-year-old Cathy Dunn causes a ripple on the calm waters of life in the village. A number of submerged and half-forgotten secrets break the surface. There are few people who are not affected by the spate of disasters that summer. Superstition has no place in a commuter village like Angel Hill. Nonetheless, one magpie is always upsetting and everyone knows that disasters go in threes. To some, for good or ill, life will never be quite the same again.

Sample Chapters

Grace’s life is just about perfect, except for one thing. She can’t have the baby she so desperately wants. Then she meets Vicky, the despised half sister she never really knew. Vicky’s life is falling apart as she struggles to find independence from her awful family and to support her young son. In spite of their differences the two sisters become friends and before long they discover that each holds the key to the others happiness.

Duncan, the IT contractor brought in to network the system at Willenshaw House, finds himself becoming reluctantly involved in a different kind of networking.  Only Duncan seems to be aware that everything at Willenshaw House is not as it should be.  He has lived too long in the shadow of his more successful older sister and needs to get a life of his own.  Before he can, he must solve a few problems unconnected with computers.

At the beginning of this adult fairy story, Kathy has married her prince and discovered the crock of gold at the rainbow’s end in the form of a lottery win.  However, living happily ever after is not so easy with the local witch setting out to lure away her prince, who in any case is not all joy to live with.  If only she had recognised the frog (Tim) as her soul-mate earlier on.

Jack and Candy depicts the changes in life and fortunes of a couple who at the start of the Nineties are happy and successful, living in London in the heyday of Thatcher's Britain. They never had it so good … until Candy's younger sister Joanna arrives, bringing with her memories of another time and place, and more than a hint of future trouble.
Jack and Candy follows the changing fortunes of these three characters through to the new millennium as they struggle to come to terms with the nature of love and success in the modern world.

Casper's Kingdom is a children's story of 13,000 words. Casper is a small, black and white common moggie, a mixture of independence, charm and sheer perversity. Everyone sees him differently. The four dogs are all under his paw.

With Casper, the reader eavesdrops on the lives played out around him. What Kasper does and where he goes is his own affair and a mystery to the family. Boundaries of time and space have no meaning for him.

In the seventh century a Byzantine Emperor, Justinian II, is deposed and mutilated by having his nose and his tongue cut off.  Eight years later, after an arranged marriage with Theodora, an inspirational 'gypsy' princess, he is attempting to regain his throne.  He is helped in this enterprise by an odd collection of adventurers and hangers-on.  We learn the stories of Justinian's principal friends and supporters; who include Michael his ex-Chamberlain from his time as Emperor, his Viking bodyguard, Harald, and most importantly, Honorius, a defrocked monk who is Justinian's spy in Constantinople. 

Sad and lonely, Luke travels to Tuscany after the death of his father. He meets the attractive and enigmatic Sylvana and becomes obsessed by her. Their attraction for each other grows but then Luke is shocked to discover that Sylvana is his mother, although she is unaware of this. Devastated that his father had lied to him about her death, he flees to England where he joins the family auction business.

            Ingrid, a talented artist with secrets of her own, contacts Luke, searching for a missing portrait depicting Luke’s mother as the Madonna. Moving in the world of art and antiques, they unwittingly become involved in an art fraud and uncover family secrets and lies.

Bella is barely more than a child when she falls in love with Johnny. She will never forget that last golden summer at the family home, Waterleys Hall before the war changed everything. Believing Johnny to be dead, she makes an unhappy marriage to a rich doctor to save her family from financial ruin. Then Johnny comes home.

Their love remains steadfast over the next fifty years even though the timing never seems right for them to be together. Then a car crash, in which Bella’s second husband dies and her sister is left in a coma, sparks off a chain of events which reveal the secrets of the past to the next generation.