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Quietly
Shining - A mystery that blends events in
contemporary Britain and C19th America. The book won a professional
critique on the YouWriteOn.com website, and was subsequenty picked
up by Orion.
Due for publication by Orion in summer 2010.
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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.
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Jan
and Ali live next door to each other in the two houses belonging to
the Family Trust set up by their Grandfather. They haven’t
spoken to each other for twenty years. Following the death of
Prudence Lincoln, their much-loved Great Aunt, with implications for
the winding-up of the trust, they need to find a way to put aside
the long-standing feud. In the quest to build bridges, the two
sisters discover some intriguing aspects of their family history.
As the days pass incidents from the past relate to and explain the
present. This was a family divided by the subtle snobberies of
the middle classes, told over thirty days of present conflict
reaching back across eighty years and four generations. The
family’s story is played out against a backcloth of the social
changes in a London suburb.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two
years ago Mary Simmons married an Irishman and moved from her London
home, first to Dublin, and then to the far west of Ireland. Today
she is a widow, alone and confused in the lochside cottage they
bought together, trying to deal with the legacy of his suicide, and
understand just what it says about their relationship, about the man
she believed she knew, and ultimately, about her capacity for love.
Conor Moore is adrift, a University drop-out living back on the farm
his fore-fathers once worked for the English. His father believes he
should never have left. Conor believes there's no way he can stay,
to become a prisoner, like his father, freed at last from English
rule only to be caged instead by the customs and traditions that
seem so meaningless today. The west is dying. Farming is dead. For
some, suicide is the only way out. The Waters and the Wild follows
the fates of Mary and Conor as they escape across the water to
London, to break free from the stagnant world of Dunsheery, in the
hope they'll each find answers to the questions suddenly raised by
the death of Stewart Donnell.
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Harry
Cornflower is lost. A private detective, touching forty and
fattening nicely into middle-age. That wasn't how it was supposed to
be. He'd just taken a wrong turning one day, a while back when it
seemed the choices were still his to make, and now he couldn't find
another way of looking at things, of getting back on track. And all
those alternative paths he'd not taken, for fear of failure or some
misguided sense of loyalty, they'd all grown thick with weeds and
thorns...
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