The Byzantium Inheritance

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The Byzantium Inheritance is a work of fiction - more an ‘informed adventure’ than a ‘ thriller’. My story describes a series of climactic events, each event leading logically to the next - ...

The Private Life of a Potter

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When I was a child, my father showed me a book by his school-friend the artist and poet Thomas Hennell...

God’s Last Burlesque

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God’s Last Burlesque was inspired by my ex-father-in-law; ‘Ted’ or, to me, ‘Sir’; a man who I know for sure did actually shift some of the national boundaries on the maps of the Middle East ...

I’ll never forget ….. whot’sisname?

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I’ll never forget ….. whot’sisname? (…. or what did either Narcissus or Dostoyevsky ever do for me??!) along with God’s Last Burlesque, represents my attempts to put life in focus (my own li...

This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England?

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The story in This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England? began to take shape when I was sitting in the graveyard surrounding our 1000-year-old church, looking at the River Nene and thinki...

Pipelines, Prophets (Profits?) and Dreams

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Pipelines, Prophets (Profits?) and Dreams is another ‘informed adventure’ based on the concept of re-establishing Lake Chad; once one of the world’s largest inland waters, via an international p...

Feeding the Beast

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'Feeding the Beast' examines the effects of the technological revolution – mobiles, computers, chat rooms and ‘fake news’ - all of which have become very relevant as current topics of ...

The Towers of Silence

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The Towers of Silence  is the story of an MP who, condemned by the media, his party and his constituency for a speech about race and society, goes on to commit suicide: Book 1 is written in the momen...

A Foot in Both Camps

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An ‘embroidered memoir’, A Foot in Both Camps is a volume of nine short stories created around two central characters; one, a youngish Englishman, and t’other a young Indian girl. Brought toget...