My BOOKS
Lauren and Rafi
Two young people from different cultures finding their way to each other...
A group of malcontents out to make trouble...
A small country town struggling to hold together competing voices against a background of rising nationalism...
These undercurrents surface to a moving conclusion, where love competes with tragedy.
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Published: 8th July 2025
The Little Fishery: Love and Loss on the Riverside
This is the story of the first 14 years of my life and of growing up in a house by the River Thames in Maidenhead in the 1950s. I learnt early on that my father’s word was law; and, as the youngest of four siblings, I struggled to make sense of my mother’s unhappiness and my sister’s hostility towards me.
Even so, I loved our house and playing out secret adventures in its spacious gardens; and I loved our holidays on the beach by the sea at our hotel in St Ives, Cornwall. These were my continuing salvation against the terror and grief I felt at being sent away to boarding school, when I was nine – and then at 14, while I was away again at school, my parents separated and my ‘home’ was sold.
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Publisihed: 7th July 2023
Murder at Royal William Yard
“He’s going to kill me!” a 999 caller whispers. “Help me!”
This gripping crime thriller is set against the backdrop of Plymouth, the Ocean City, in the winter of 2015.
DI Lou Beradino and his transgender colleague, DS Fran Bannerman, following up an emergency call, find themselves drawn into the tangled affairs of a corrupt city councillor.
When Lou’s girlfriend, Connie, says she wants them to get married and start a family, he finds himself distracted by the childhood demons of his own missing father.
Then a killer strikes at the historic Royal William Yard −and Connie is abducted.
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Published: 16th August 2017