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Poems of loss, regeneration and hope. ‘Living Places, Passing Lives’ examines the identity of place and the rooting of individual lives within it. The threat of environmental destruction and the disastrous impact this has on human consciousness is explored from diverse points of view, as are the vital links to […]
A collection of short stories. Crossing boundaries of period, style and mood, from black comedy to domestic tragedy, ‘The Wheel’ embraces reflections on the nature of loss, the haunting burden of childhood trauma and much more besides. If you enjoy variety in a short story volume, this book is for […]
Deceit. Goodness. Love. Murder. Everything shines in the colours of the soul. Book Four of the Glasswater Quintet. Prismatic beauty. Dark perversion… … I see the colours, how they wreathe the bodies of people, animals in the fields, how they swirl about places… It is a dance, a changing dance that […]
The third entry in the Glasswater Quintet. Grief opens a door. Wickedness enters. The 1930s are drawing to a close. On the brink of adulthood, Phyl discovers the Creek, an isolated community stranded between the Essex marshlands and the industrial highway of the Thames, where her life is unexpectedly enriched. […]
The second gripping instalment of the Glasswater Quintet. The cards are drawn, elementals unleashed: can the innocent survive? An abducted psychic reads the cards to preserve her sanity. In another part of the country, struggling to keep his family from disintegration and to deflect the lethal attentions of an East […]
The first book in THE GLASSWATER QUINTET sequence. ‘In the glass, reflected light reared like a burning ship. Whispered words, with the urgency of intercession, opened a laceration in her brain. On the livid tissues behind were drawn the cramped dimensions of a dark, musty room…’ In extremis, the future […]