PLAYPITS PARK has dark humour and the occasional death. It is a rewrite of one of my first novels, the one I sent to Simon King, then the MD at Random House and which he liked but ‘didn’t know what to do with’ - hopefully things in the publishing world have changed since then and there is a place for this novel. I have completely rewritten it. Unless somebody gets back to me and wants to publish it I might convert it to pdf and ePub formats and either give it away or sell it at a low price to cover some of my costs. Click the picture for extracts  I had this book on the ‘Authonomy’ website for a while. Some of the peer group comments were awesome.

David Fraser is tipped for the top. He is at the peak of his career and about to become head of the Security Service, MI5. He has skeletons in closets that are about to reveal themselves, skeletons that will almost certainly destroy him. His father dies, and he and his brother clear the family home. Items they find in the attic force him to confront demons from his past, events from his childhood that he dare not reveal.

KEEWATIN is suitable for just about anyone over 9 years old. There are no wizards, gnomes, magic or bad language, just a simple adventure story. It was written as a ‘boys book’ and then rewritten to include Suzie. Suzie, it seems, has now taken over the story. My Granddaughter loved it. I do not want to give this novel away. I would like to see it professionally published and on bookshop shelves. Click the picture for extracts.

Alex Mackenzie's father disappears while on a visit to a mine in the Canadian north. Search parties fail to find him. When school breaks up for the summer, Alex's friend Suzie invites him to fly with her to Toronto to stay with her aunt, a plan by her parents to get Alex's mind off his missing father. In Toronto things go wrong. Will they be allowed to stay with their aunt, or will they be sent back? And what happened to Alex's father? Keewatin takes the younger reader into the Canadian wilderness accompanied by an anxious Alex, a feisty Suzie and a truck called Mog.  

THE THIRD VALKYRIE follows author Robert Harris’s notion that there are holes in history that a writer of fiction can fall through. The story is inspired by the discovery in 1945 of the Mona Lisa in the Alt Aussee salt mine in Austria, amongst a Nazi hoard of looted art. Officials at the Louvre insist that the genuine Mona Lisa was taken to a place of safety at the start of the war and that the portrait found at Alt Aussee was a contemporary copy. Researchers dispute this, saying that during the war the French had no such safe places. Click the picture for extracts.

John Spargo’s mother is attacked and left for dead in her cottage in the remote Scottish village of Kilcreg. Every inch of the house has been searched. Even the floorboards have been taken up and replaced, neatly and professionally. The police and Spargo are baffled. Nothing is missing. Only days later when the police have gone and Spargo is there on his own does he realise the mistake he has made.

KRAKOS

 Complete rewrite! 2010?

BLACK PINES

 Complete rewrite! 2010?
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