Set in the nineteen-seventies, Did You Whisper Back? begins with Amanda Court's longing to be reunited with her estranged twin sister Jo. Following a false lead, Amanda leaves her Merseyside home and family and goes to Devon to work as a chambermaid where she believes Jo now lives. Amanda's new life begins to encroach on her personal space and time, and her search for Jo is put on hold until Amanda feels Jo calling her back to Liverpool.Gradually it emerges that Jo is, seemingly, j...

It's the start of the 1999 Wimbledon Tennis Championships is not only about an obsession with Wimbledon: the game of tennis itself becomes a metaphor for the other psychological matches taking place at the house of peevish old Gwen McMahon. Carers come and go, but who will survive to the final?Winner of one of the Paparazzi Sports Fiction Awards 2010 and previously published in paperback. It has also been awarded a place on the Awesome Indies list of quality independent fiction.

Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin to unravel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological novel following the structure of an academic paper: Abstract, Introduction, Method & Results, Discussion, Conclusions.

An edgy, contemporary tale about death and suicide and its effects on two families. Death is a fact of life for the principle characters and especially for Marina Reed who wishes to join her loved ones at 'the dead club', a place she and her sixth form friends obsessed about in their youth. Ultimately her mortido becomes more urgent until it takes her over the edge. The novel is in fact very much about edges: where the ultimate edge is between life and death.Written in bit...

The Fruit Woman has appeared to Helen - a quirky and naïve twenty-seven-year-old - at important times in her life, particularly in relation to her own sexual and spiritual awakening. In the context of the family holiday, where games of cards, scatological worries, and deep discussions abound, the story centres on Helen's anxieties over the second week's 'guest list'. She's not seen her old schoolfriend, Bella for years, she’s attracted to Bella’s brother in spite of his religious beliefs, ...

Daryl Wainwright is the quirky youngest child of a large family of petty thieves and criminals who calls himself 'Thalidomide Kid'. Celia Burkett is the new girl at the local primary school, and the daughter of the deputy head at the local comprehensive where she is bound the following September. With few friends, Celia soon becomes fascinated by 'the boy with no arms'. The story is about the blossoming romance and sexual awakening between a lonely girl and a disabled boy, and their strugg...

Meet Daryl, a survivor of the Thalidomide tragedy who calls himself Thalidomide Kid.Meet Celia, the new girl at Lewis Lane Primary School and daughter of the deputy headmaster of the local comprehensive school.Together they form an alliance and a special friendship is born.But who is Stephen Arundel and what does he want?A bittersweet story about young love and emerging sexuality.

A gritty story, served up with Scouse dialect, and retro sweets and food aplenty.A life long and symbiotic friendship between two men begins in 1960s Liverpool when they are children: their early experiences in the nineteen-sixties and seventies having lasting effects on their adult lives and relationships.

Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter.Then tragedy strikes in a holiday narrowboat accident having far-reaching consequences for the surviving family and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance – and further anguish for Leila’s parents.Told from both daughter and father's perspectives, Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of...

A dark, edgy tale about death and suicide and its effects on two families. Death is a fact of life for the principle characters and especially for Marina Reed who wishes to join her loved ones at ‘the dead club’, a place she and her sixth form friends obsessed about in their youth. Ultimately her mortido becomes more urgent until it takes her to the edge. The novel is in fact very much about edges: where the ultimate edge is between life and death.Written in bite-sized sections in ...

Set in the nineteen-seventies, Did You Whisper Back? begins with Amanda Court's longing to be reunited with her estranged twin sister Jo. Following a false lead, Amanda leaves her Merseyside home and family and goes to Devon to work as a chambermaid where she believes Jo now lives. Amanda's new life begins to encroach on her personal space and time, and her search for Jo is put on hold until Amanda feels Jo calling her back to Liverpool. Gradually it emerges that Jo is, seemingly, just a f...

First written as a series of blogs before and during lockdown, I have expanded it in several areas - it is a growing and evolving project. Following my unfashionably late ASD and ADHD diagnosis in my sixties, I realised how pertinent some of this was to the strong dislikes and aversions I and my fellow autists experience. The problems of working out how to put on a duvet cover, for instance, probably comes under gross motor skills. The textures and tastes of certain edibles or the flashing...