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The boys have gone home at the end of the Christmas term and the old house is left to the headmaster, Dr Kemp, his wife, and Alan Scott, a boy abandoned by his mother.

It's David Kewish's eighteenth birthday. But the day doesn't turn out quite as he expected. After suffering a gruesome injury, he receives a strange present in the form of a baby black-backed gull. But David's accident isn't the only misfortune to coincide with the bird's arrival. Soon a whole series of violent incidents, and even deaths, begins to unfold in the seaside town where he lives. And when people notice how close David is to the gull...

Gathering Storm is a new collection of poetry that has been written during the last months of 2022. During this year we have been through, and still going through, political turmoil and conflict around the globe, with changes in Monarchies, Governments and National boundaries, yet we still continue to turn to prayer, turn to God, and so I do with my poetry. These poems are sometimes dark, often light, always telling a story that finishes with ...

The poems in this little book came about in the evening of Thursday 8th September 2022. Buckingham Palace had just announced that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, had passed away while at Balmoral in Scotland. She was 96 years of age. These poems were completed during the week of National Mourning and finalised on the day of the funeral.

Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth in a velvet box, with a note from 1888 saying it belonged to a young Edgar Allan Poe. When he converts an old church to a bookshop selling strange and occult titles, he displays the tooth there, calling the store Poe's Tooth Books. But the bookstore has been bought with blood money: Oliver and his wife Rosie received a large cash settlement when their young daughter Chloe was left brain-damaged after a hit-and...

Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth in a velvet box, with a note from 1888 saying it belonged to a young Edgar Allan Poe. When he converts an old church to a bookshop selling strange and occult titles, he displays the tooth there, calling the store Poe's Tooth Books. But the bookstore has been bought with blood money: Oliver and his wife Rosie received a large cash settlement when their young daughter Chloe was left brain-damaged after a hit-and...

It's David Kewish's eighteenth birthday. But the day doesn't turn out quite as he expected. After suffering a gruesome injury, he receives a strange present in the form of a baby black-backed gull. But David's accident isn't the only misfortune to coincide with the bird's arrival. Soon a whole series of violent incidents, and even deaths, begins to unfold in the seaside town where he lives. And when people notice how close David is to the gull...

And you and I, a collection of poems that look at life and sometimes, how to live it. If you love life, then the poems will inspire, as these were inspired by Psalms and news events during the past year or so. Read them and find life, be inspired and inspire others.

A collection of poems that tell a story, either real stories with a faith finale or spiritual journeys.

Poems written in late 2020/early 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic started to wind down. These poems were written to encourage and inspire readers to seek God in all things

These poems are based on life's experiences. They are encouragers for all to recognise that life is an experience.

Answering an ad for a job as live-in tutor to a teenage boy, Christopher Beal arrives at the big, old house deep in the woods with no idea what he's getting into. His pupil is Lawrence Lundy, an odd boy who practices strange rituals by moonlight and is haunted - perhaps literally - by the spirit of his dead father. For mysterious reasons, his mother, Juliet, keeps him at home, isolated from the world. During the suffocating heat of a long summ...

Answering an ad for a job as live-in tutor to a teenage boy, Christopher Beal arrives at the big, old house deep in the woods with no idea what he's getting into. His pupil is Lawrence Lundy, an odd boy who practices strange rituals by moonlight and is haunted - perhaps literally - by the spirit of his dead father. For mysterious reasons, his mother, Juliet, keeps him at home, isolated from the world. During the suffocating heat of a long summ...

When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the one condition of the will seems strange but harmless. They are to care for a cormorant until the end of its life.

The Lord's Prayer - phrase by phrase as poems for life and encouragement. Other poems are thoughts from life and adventures with God.

This collection was written between March and June, during the lockdown of 2020, as a challenge for me to keep active during isolation. Over the period I managed to write these poems and encourage many on social media. They cover all aspects of Isolation/anxiety and faith.

A testimony of a heart incident that involved faith, trust and medicine. And a lot of prayer

Contributions to this volume review, in international perspective, the "European social model" of collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment rights, and social welfare support, which is seen as both cause and cure for joblessness and low-wage employment in Europe. They find that collective bargaining and minimum wages protect vulnerable workers, while wage flexibility is not economically effective in creating jobs for the low-skilled.

Poems putting voice to characters that took part in the Passion of Christ. Poems and prayers about aspects of Stations of the cross

This is a collection of poems and short stories written over a long period of time. This is just a part of what I have written, there is more to come.Poetry is something I love to write, from my faith to life to everything in between.