Historical Fiction

‘The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller’ is a rip-roaring adventure story that takes place during the final, tumultuous years of the American Civil War. It is full of horse chases, gunfights and even has a beautiful Pinkerton Detective. But it is more than that just an adventure story; the hero, a young man named Teddy Miller, is forced to grow up and make serious decisions for which he has no experience and no adult guidance. Root for him, cry with him, and cheer for him as he travels from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to the tip of Florida and back during the last months of the War in search of love and redemption. 'The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller' is a mult...

It's 1897, and an abandoned wife and mother with a rebellious teenage daughter faces a dilemma: how to earn enough cash for food and upkeep, and maintain respectability? The gossips would have it that her laundry business is a sham. She's too friendly with her customers at the local bordello and the men at the logging camp. When she takes in a border, a doctor who arrives without his bride, then tongues really start to wag. There is a second chance for love, but it's fraught with obstacles and heartache.

In July 1888, the entire population of the Southern Highlands village of Kerosene Creek disappear without trace. A month later, a young woman appears on the steps of Saint Bridget’s Convent, starving, distressed and mute. Her name is Jindy Fiadh Kelly and she appears to be the sole survivor, but she has completely lost her memory. Aboriginal tracker Jimmy Sugarbag calls it “forgetting business”. Amateur psychologist Sister Thomas diagnoses “hysterical amnesia,” and she believes that recovering Jindy’s memory may hold the answer the Kerosene Creek mystery; but  Jindy’s burning need is to discover the fate of her Ngunnawal mother. The three of them return to the abandoned vi...

Angel of Aleppo is a story of the Armenian Genocide. It takes the reader through history not widely told and highlights the little-known link between the Genocide and the WW1 Anzac experience. It puts into harsh focus the incomprehensible cruelty of the Ottoman Young Turks and their henchmen towards their Armenian citizens, but it is ultimately a story about faith and love and the redemptive power of forgiveness.Angel of Aleppo tells a story not unlike celebrated US-Armenian author Chris Bohjalian's The Sandcastle Girls.Angel of Aleppo is set primarily from 1915 – 1919 in Anatolia (southern modern-day Turkey), Aleppo and the Mesopotamian desert. It moves briefly to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1923...

Part historical drama, part spy story, part romance by one of the UK'S most prolific writers.  All based around an extraordinary true incident at the start of World War II, when fierce political enemies Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and their wives, encountered each other for the first time under circumstances which caused conjecture throughout political circles.  Seen through the eyes of one of Churchill's overworked but adoring secretaries, who by sheer chance gets drawn into a world of secret warfare, espionage and honey traps, and the eternal struggle between good and evil regimes that still exists today. "This captivating book offers readers a ...