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Spring 1942 and Russian forces prepare to stem a remorseless advancing tide. Only a bitter Russian winter had halted the German advance following their shock 'Operation Barbarossa' invasion of the previous June. Major Russian counter-offences during those long winter months had come to no avail. Natalya Dimitrieva, a young experienced flier, enlists with the demoralized and depleted Russian Army Air Force to avenge the death of her father at the hands of the Luftwaffe. Amidst a background of uncertainty, suspicion and male chauvinism, she is appointed as a ferry pilot to a backwater maintenance division. To add to her disappointment at this posting she is faced with the apathy of her senior officer Sergei Zhelkov and her ambitions are frustrated until a sudden mysterious and tragic event propels her to the forefront of Russia's grim struggle for survival. Natalya and Sergei are drawn together when they find themselves embroiled in a vendetta against their own Russian Commander Voronchev in collusion with his German cousin, fighter ace Hessler. Her initial success is surprising, but is it entirely due to her innate ability or is the ghost of Sergei's dead brother riding in the cockpit? Natalya pursues her objectives, through the cataclysmic destruction of Stalingrad and beyond, stalked by Hessler in his obsessive quest for revenge.

A young Geordie 'Jason Davidson' gets on his bike like the Tory government had told him to do, escaping the dying shipyards. He finds himself in the dirty and dangerous world of 'Oil - Black Gold'. Now with money in his pockets he marries his gold digging Geordie girlfriend. Betrayed by her lust for more, Jason sinks himself into his work and desperately tries to be better but can't compete with his wife's lover. Entering a world d of contract working, he decides to work for the highest bidder, an industrial mercenary in the wrong place at the wrong time, lighting a fuse that could haunt him. Emotionally damaged Jason forgets his pain of divorce in the beautiful and intelligent legal executive Hailey. Misunderstanding all signals in his failure to trust once again, Jason walks away from the woman he should have waited for, arresting part of him forever, a prostration he must recover from. Seduced by the unscrupulous 'Eamon Goldsmith', Jason Davidson finds himself heading up a company in Singapore where he meets the beautiful exotic Grace Kwon Lee. Grace the unloved daughter from a family escaping Hong Kong before the British handover to the Chinese, setting up in Singapore - but there is something else more sinister about the Lee family. Grace has never known tenderness. She is of mixed Asian blood and the product of an unsavoury secret, shunned by her father, secretly loved and raised by her aunt in return for his loyalty. The celestial clash of East and West brings love intothe life of Grace for only the second time, the first being her own kind, and ending in heartbreak. Grace and Jason's paths have crossed before, when they both were in different worlds, a scene that touches Grace deeply. In Singapore a chance meeting sees Jason and Grace Fall in love. Her life is wonderful now and she has never known such bliss, But the Tong Triad has other ideas that will test her love to the limit and haunt the unlucky Geordie, perhaps forever. Grace forced to marry a detes

KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING is an attempt to describe life as it was in Radnorshire from the beginning of the 20th. Century until after the Great War and the effect the local atmosphere nourished in Tom, the chief protagonist, on whom the book is based. The title of the work is owed to Ivor Novello who would spend family holidays with Tom's parents when he was a child and whose own mother had graciously played the organ for Tom's parents' wedding-ceremony. In the book, Ivor's song becomes all the poignant as Tom, who has volunteered under-age for active service in the army, is marching through Boulogne en route for the trenches and the horrors yet to come. Miraculously (for not many young men survived as machine-gunners) he is brought safely through, abeit scarred and with a couple of enemy gunshot wounds to his leg but this is not the end of the story. As was so often the case when boys had been exposed to events too raw for prolonged discussion at home, once returned, Tom, unable to settle back beneath a semi-puritanical façade, finds he has become the actual outcast that unconsciously he must have always suspected himself to be: Ishmael. We leave him standing on the dock at Liverpool in early 1920 as a Remittance-Man to Canada.

Many Days In August is the story of Victor Bravery, of those he loved, those who loved him and those who died for him. It is the story of the growth of a business empire from two rusty canal barges, to a fleet that became the pride of the canals. Of village cricket played in the idyllic setting of an English summer¿s day. Of the courage and the pain of friends who willingly swapped cricket bats for rifles, whites for uniforms, and the village green for the battlefields of war torn France, It is about many August days in the life of an extraordinary young man. It is the story of the enduring love of Emmy, waiting patiently to repair a life that appeared shattered beyond repair on an August day when the world wept. Victors friends will become your friends, and you will weep with them - and for them.

The death of John and Betty Laine in 1943 at the height of the 2nd World War initiates a chain of events stretching over 42 years that would include murder, child abuse and sexual blackmail. The story begins in 1985. A case involving drugs and the death of a police colleague in a burning building awakens a buried nightmare that threatens the sanity of New Scotland Yard Detective, Philip Graves. Grave's enforced leave comes just as he receives news that his father, a retired police sergeant, has been viciously attacked in what is thought to be a random assault. Still haunted by the burning death of his partner, he returns home determined to know the facts about his father's attack. Graves quickly learns of his father's involvement in an unusual case concerning the 25-year old mummified body of a man found encased inside a bridge column. His father has more than a passing interest in the case and Graves questions the connection between the case and his father's assault. Over the days that follow Graves conducts his own investigation, learning the identity of the mummified man and that he apparently died in 1953, along with 3 other men in a fire at Harrington Orphanage. "How does a corpse from 1953 become a corpse again in 1960?" Graves asks himself. Graves slowly pieces together the past for each victim. He learns that his father's assault is connected with the body in the bridge, but the reason stems from the past, to a time when twin boys were left in the care of Harrington orphanage following the death of their parents, John and Betty Laine. Graves unearths facts that he wished were left buried in the past, facts that would change his own life and everything that he understood to be true.