2025 RELEASES
Forthcoming Collection
Hints of Darkness will be my fourth collection of short works and will feature a generous mix of short and very short stories that embrace a variety of genres from the macabre to humour. Most with a dark turn to the plot.
Diverse stories are intentionally intermixed, so that readers find a broad view of what the written word can convey. And within its pages you will encounter both human tragedy and delight, you will meet monsters and paranormal experiences, ordinary folk in less ordinary situations, and your emotions will be stretched between sorrow and joy … and fear.
Most of all you will be entertained, so that the bleaker moments of your life are lifted, happier days complemented and senses sometimes shocked.
Look out for a further announcement soon, and autumn publication of this new work.
Completing the trilogy
Now married to Gray Sowerby, Anna has moved to a new luxury home overlooking Poppit Sands and her own business venture is expanding, with a new branch in the offing. Gray, with building partner Jed Evans, is having his own success, too. But life gets tougher when Anna's hidden secrets revisit her and there is tragedy ahead for the Sowerby family.
Will she survive the storm or will all her desires be blown away?
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The second Anna story
Finding another new arrival in Graham Sowerby, she sees the opportunity for both a partner who'll become her soulmate and a father figure for Chloé. Delving into his past she soon realises there is more to his heritage than she first realised, with the opportunity to also improve her lifestyle.
But does that all tumble down when disastrous, life changing episodes occur?
Drama across the Celtic Sea
Of prime interest is flamboyant Patrick Donoghue, photographer, smuggler and flatterer of women, who plies the Celtic Sea in a luxurious sailing boat. While on home shores Paul has to contend with Stella, Marion's meddlesome twin, spinster, brilliant accountant, and obsessively concerned about the loss of her sister, always laying the fault at Paul's door.
As the truth unfolds, for Paul and for Kathy, will it bring happiness or sorrow?
A diverse choice
The books I write cover a diversity of genres and are aimed simply at providing entertaining reads, rather than great literary works. Novels you can bury yourself in for escapist pleasures and compilations of shorter works that showcase a plethora of mood teasers. There's drama, there's humour, there's the joy of living, the despair of death, in the present and in the future, plus a few much darker tales that cross the line from our world to those we only imagine – or perhaps prefer not too.
No heavy reading. Just books to enjoy.
But the books aren't the end of the story. There are tales as yet unpublished and some published elsewhere on lit-mag websites, including The Cabinet of Heed, Reflex Press, The Molotov Cocktail, Ad Hoc Fiction, and Paragraph Planet. And while some new writing will appear first on this website, other stories plucked from my books, or previously published elsewhere, might also be highlighted from time to time.
All the titles found here are just to give you a taste of what you will find in Paperback or Kindle eBook formats direct from Amazon, with some also listed online at Waterstones.
Short stories or flash fiction for those whose life is a whirl.
On the Shorts page you'll find shorter works, which will sometimes be an entirely new story or one not published in any of the compilations. Or perhaps just a story from way back in the archives, that some might not have read before. It's always worth taking a look to see the frequent updates to this website.
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