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Night of the Whirlwind by |
June, 1943. Immense German and Russian armies face each other across the Kursk salient. The British Prime Minister is determined that the Russians should win; determined enough to risk Britain’s code-breaking operation if he can just succeed in liquidating a Panzer general visiting France. With the outcome of a war hanging in the balance, what better plan than to give the mission to a handful of intruder pilots flying near obsolete aircraft? |
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Prototype by |
March, 1942. A small aircraft company constructs the world’s fastest and most powerful fighter prototype; only to see it cancelled by a blinkered Air Ministry. However, seeing its value as a bomber escort fighter, the Prime Minister reinstates the project. But as the testing proceeds, grave technical, personal, and political problems arise. Will the prototype’s backers; its designers, the military, and the politicians, ever see it engage the enemy? |
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Assassin by |
December, 1942. Britain’s jet programme is in the doldrums, so the Prime Minister asks a small but brilliant design team to come up with an answer. This they do; but their prototype has a potentially deadly flaw. Relegated to northern Scotland for intensive testing, the prototype faces trials never imagined before the call comes to take on the deadliest threat yet offered by the Luftwaffe… |
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Paradise Misplaced by |
What tale of obsession and lies can bored Inspector Stone unearth from the death of Oliver Marchant in his Heligan-type garden towards the end of WW1? More than just a simple "whodunnit", it explores complex human relationships in a world on the brink of change. The story unfolds against a kaleidoscope of events from a lost past - the trial of Oscar Wilde, the rise of the Suffragettes, Art Nouveau and the "Glasgow Rose", the conchie's choice, blackmail, inheritance, convention and duty. |
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Let Me Help by |
In the midst of the War on Terror, Ben Milburn is murdered by an Arab gang in East-London. Spurning heaven for a chance to return to his young family, Ben must prove his worth by living his life in the past. Not only must he confront his prejudices but he must also ensure that he stays alive in the most perilous of situations and quickly learns that life in the 16thC Middle-East is much more difficult than he could possibly imagine. |
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Hatred is the Key by |
Britain is at war with America and when a group of American seamen are captured during a fierce sea battle with a British ship in 1814, and following the transportation to the notorious Dartmoor prison in south west England, their lives change forever. Nothing can prepare them for what lies ahead. Confined to a granite jail in the harshest conditions imaginable, many freeze to death while hundreds die from the pox and the intolerable treatment meted out by the militia. |
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Ticket to Ride by |
During the mid sixties, at the peak of the English group scene in Germany, dozens of groups made the short journey across the English Channel to northern Europe in search of fame and fortune. This novel follows the exploits of a naïve under aged five-piece group from the south west of England as they made their futile search for success in Germany. |