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When purity is not enough. North London 1936. Father Forrest is an inherently decent priest consumed by impure corporal thoughts. He has little possibility of ethical growth. When his secretary's young daughter dies, the tragedy stimulates a series of events which contribute to obsession, misfortune and blackmail. It will take a chance meeting with an unscrupulous young woman, the sudden reasonless death of his demented mother, a fortuitous b...

Holloway, House of Correction is an alternative fantasy and documents the unlikely friendship between two women, Victoria, wealthy, beautiful and recently married, and the impoverished Margaret, the only surviving daughter of Victorian England's most prolific serial murderer, Mary Ann Cotton. Both live close to the old Holloway Gaol when it became a women's only prison in the spring of 1902.

It is the summer of 1945, and Miriam and her extended family are weary but disciplined by war, and accustomed to austerity. Throughout this period, she deals with more deaths, ill health, moving house, rationing and accidents, all the while guiding her loved ones through the deprivation and destitution that is the East-End of London. Yet, there are births, a new relationship for her and marriages. Conscription and the introduction of the Natio...

Hoping to emulate his hero, the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, Mr Gabriel Chukwumereije is an arrogant, wealthy sociopath from Ghana who arrives in London. His only problem is...it is 1960.

Waterleigh Care Home is primarily about a young carer, Ms Erin Fylnn and, Sarah Graham, a new type of patient who is forced to take up permanent residence due to early onset dementia. Although Erin is regarded as one of the best carers in the home, she is not without personal family problems. However, the elderly and confused Sarah brings out more than the caring side of her, proving that even during our last days, all of us can be useful as ...

In 1975, Mary Park, the only daughter of a wealthy and respected dynasty whose family accommodation is in Bloomsbury Square, London, is being driven beyond endurance by domestic and marital responsibilities, financial pressures and intellectual frustration. A separation from her philandering husband and the concern of her teenage daughter taking drugs occupy a large amount of her time. However, rumours, arriving from an unprincipled and griev...

Lara Everett is a sensitive, childless widow of twenty years. She is settled, has buried her childhood dreams, is financially solvent and addicted to being alone. She would not call herself depressed, just unhappy. However, in her forty-third year, fate allows William (Bill) Lee, a shrewd and resourceful man, a man entirely unsuitable for any woman, to cross her threshold and take hold of her heart. Hypnotised by his sheer physical presence, ...

The Angel of Death is a bleak and fictional account of the United Kingdom?s prison system.When terrorists commit an act of genocide resulting in the deaths of over eleven thousand Londoners, the Prime Minister, under pressure of intense social media, announces a new government initiative as the death penalty is no longer practicable.The new legislation called, the Safe Limitation Act is rushed through Parliament and a woman neurosurgeon is emp...

In the eighth and final novel describing the Morrow family of Newgate Street, we find them twenty-one years later during 1966. The business is now being managed by Maggie and Anthony who do not have a great deal of hope for its long-term future due to the changing requirements of Londoners, many of whom are daily commuters and not members of local families who had lived in the area for generations.Maud and Richard are now in their seventies an...

n this year Maud and her family learn that the physical horrors and disappointment of living through a world war extend beyond mere death. For despondency and demoralising events happen closer to home as her children change in ways she previously could not have imagined.Would these occurrences have happened had the Germans not begun their quest for world domination? Just how long would it take to win the war as she and everybody else ask how m...

When the third year of war begins, Maud and her family are homeless and misplaced. Only Bert, an old friend of her dead husband has the ability to help them. Gradually Maud and her daughter begin to rebuild their lives taking on responsibility after responsibility as the deprivations of war continue to affect them. Although Maud continues to find great comfort in the love Richard has for her, the effects of the war changes the personalities of...

Alien Queens 4 poses yet another problem for Stewart, Frankie, Anne B and Velvet's narrator, Miss (now Mrs) Molly Flaguline. For the escapade in which they find themselves, perplexes even the mature understanding of their original eighteenth century lady-of-the-night turned archivist. As if the notion of time travel wasn't difficult enough for Molly to comprehend, her knotty problem is how to document what happened when Velvet decides she want...

The last year of a lower class London family and friends living and working in Newgate Street before war engulfs them. There are funerals, affairs, deception, violence, and even a murder. And to those familiar with the Miriam series, there is a surprising visitor. A novel with domineering mothers, obsessions with famous trials and hangings and frustration that the little corporal from Germany was going to take over their lives. Yet amongst the...

Set in the classic time of 1972, this story is about a battle between the ancient and respectable company of corset makers owned by Sir Cyril Strumpet The Third and his arch enemy, Sidney Rabbit who sets up his own company Aphrodisiac, a place of swinging, knicker-clad females.

On a warm and late summer evening in 2015, after her boyfriend dumps her, Essex girl, Donna Rigg drunkenly smashes her car into a pillar box. She is taken to hospital where she is diagnosed with concussion. Over the next few weeks, her perception changes, for she begins to see the world as it was fifty-five years previously in 1960. On a follow-up visit for an MRI, she becomes frightened and argues with staff. Becoming aggressive and overheari...

The future: The ability to map the human cortex neurone by neurone has been perfected by way of scanning. While people live, it is now possible to place a copy of a person's personality into data storage. A Similarity. The main reason is so the bereaved can communicate with them after death. Geolog is a world leader in this technology. For two middle-aged sisters, Mia and Emma, living on an isolated farm on the periphery of Hastings, this tech...

A fantasy grounded in reality. In 1963 when Miss Donna Lawson discovers an unconscious woman on a deserted stairwell at London's Fenchurch Street Station, she calls for help immediately, little realizing that the bizarrely dressed lady wearing late Victorian clothes is about to offer her an experience that will change her perception on life and love. That is if she can shake off the suspicion that she has become the central figure in what coul...

Miriam is now eighty-seven and after Roy's death, still lives in the large vicarage in Wanstead with Rafa alongside Rafa, Florence and her twin girls, Faith and Betty. It is now a time of reflection, the promise of a great, great grandchild, and long conversations about the events and conditions that shaped her life. Yet even as her body moves inexorably into extreme old age, events continue around her that proves that even wheelchair bound, h...