Writing Award 2022

Christina Robertson became a successful nineteenth century portraitist, despite the trauma of bearing and losing so many babies. In 2019, Alex struggles to conceive and her marriage is in trouble. Her quest to uncover her ancestor Christina's story leads to St Petersburg and changes her life.

Claire gets a second chance at love when she discovers she can see the ghost of her almost-boyfriend, Finn. The domino effect of his death leads to Claire healing parts of herself that she didn’t know were broken.

Kemal Yasilhark is standing on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers in London, trying to talk his best friend Tariq from jumping off. They exchange a look and access the memories of their life as teenagers and the time when Kemal himself was forced to face the darkness.

When two girls from opposite sides of the tracks befriend each other, all that seems to lay ahead is glitter and gold. But in the world of female relationships, there is a fine line between friends and lovers, allies and enemies, predator and prey.

When a teenage girl divulges a shocking story in her therapy session, Michael doesn't know what to believe, until the violent men she speaks about ambush him, giving him a choice: compromise his principles and betray the girl, or his brother dies.

A chance meeting, a brilliant and terrifying conspiracy, a deadly labyrinth of espionage, extremism, organised crime, deception, manipulation, and power. A race against the doomsday clock to control the building blocks of life.

When love leads to danger, how do you find your way home?
Valbona is a 17-year-old 2nd generation immigrant from Kosovo in London, who wants to make the world a better place. A passionate romance draws her into the fringe of a people smuggling gang. Naïvely, she thinks she can make a difference.

The third in the Eye of The Unicorn series is as fast past and action packed as the first two. The story continues with the Elidorsan civilisation growing as deep unrest threatens to destroy them all. Life changing decisions have to be made to ensure the survival of their race once more.

Deadlines suck. Particularly when you have a six-month deadline to find one of the universe's most wanted criminals, who happen to be a race of human weapons made from the essence of gods. What's even worse? Finding them.

When Wendy and John purchase land to fulfil their dreams of building a horse facility they thought they had the perfect place. Little did they know that they have the neighbours from hell living next door. They find themselves battling with supernatural forces hell bent on destroying them.

Alone on a deep space pleasure cruiser with only the AI for company, engineer David Bockerat becomes embroiled in battle of wits with a supernatural force hell bent on destroying the ship. Can he defeat this horror unleashed by the previous engineer in a cat and mouse chase before it kills them all

My debut paranormal romance (79K words) is about a woman whose life takes a tragic turn on her way to St. Maarten for a much-needed vacation; when her flight crash-lands, she discovers her ability to protect the souls of the weak from "the soulless"—with the help of the man sent to steal her spirit

The story of an orphan’s meeting with a family-orientated carpenter is interwoven with her urgent need to avenge his death eight years later.

Penelope Florence, a bunny who loves to feel the sun on her fur, longs to go outside but every time she tries, scary thoughts leave her wibbly-wobbly SQUEEEEEZED. Trying one last time, she plays PRETEND to make the wibble-wobbles blow away and shows that trying again is BRAVE.

One day, the children decide that there’s been enough war. Pouring into the streets, they cry, “We want a future! We want a future!” and wave diapers overhead as peace flags. People from everywhere join them until war is officially declared HISTORY.

A book about three lives, all genetically linked because of a teenage dalliance in seventies London.

A therapist’s life is in danger when she works with a man who claims he was wrongly convicted of killing his wife – and now wants to find the daughter he lost when he was jailed.

This self-confessed workaholic acknowledges the challenges and miracles that have influenced his life and, in a bravely honest style, shares how even your darkest days can be a springboard for positivity. How important acceptance and resilience is in turning adversities into opportunities.

My work is a modern-day story about Raffa, a young Spanish priest, who fakes a miracle to save his village. Having shared countless books, this is something I imagine being passed around on a family holiday or amongst book clubs clubs and friends who enjoy pacey, fun, compelling, accessible reading.

A woman, raised to become the high priestess of her temple, is forced into a dynastic marriage, forsaking the man she loves. The brutal murder of the reigning high priestess forces her into exile where she must fight to save Goddess worship in first century Judea.