Writing Award 2022

It is the 1960s in a British fishing port on the east coast. Danny lives with his almost blind brother, prostitute mother and drunken pimp father. He loves his mother and she loves him but there seems no way ahead. Mother and Danny fight to give the brothers a better life. How will they succeed?.

Ukrainian-American, Mykola, finds lost nuke in Crimea. A beautiful spy, Oksana, is sent to recover the coordinates. They fall in love & she defects. Russia takes Crimea and poisons Oksana with Novichok. She survives. Story follows buildup of Russian troops from fall of USSR to present day.

An ex-prisoner and a revolutionary are hunted by powerful enemies sworn to destroy them— escape is impossible unless they can unmask their protagonists’ true identities.

U.S. Embassy, Baghdad, 2003-7: Both historical saga and philosophical thriller, RETURN TO BAGHDAD tells of the dangerous clash of ambitions among four people, American and Iraqi, on the diplomatic fringes of war, a clash resolved only through a tragic sacrifice, and the understanding earned from it.

After falling in love in college, Hans and Sofia are separated by war and can see no path to reunion. Hans plays in Hitler's orchestra and Sofia plays music to survive in the besieged city of Leningrad. As the tide of war turns and Berlin burns, Sofia makes a decision from which there is no return.

After losing his job and his girlfriend, a man with nothing more to lose follows the instructions in a mysterious email, leading him to a long-lost friend, and on to a potentially lethal adventure across time.

Dash is a friendly tabby cat who lives in a school. He likes to explore and make sure the children are happy. At the same time, he enjoys sleeping on the Head-Teacher's chair but Dash knows he should never sit there!

Twenty - five year old Charlotte Brundle wants to die. She's been unable to come to terms with her Mother’s death fourteen years ago. When her attempted suicide goes wrong, Charlotte is faced with rebuilding her life again and working through her grief.

The naive daughter of a powerful enchantress--seduced and abandoned by
young King James VI--suffers the destruction of her family by the Church, survives to give birth
from her own grave, and sets off, crippled and half-blind, on a quest to introduce his daughter
to the king.

Men lie. Men cheat. And now men should be very afraid.