Writing Award 2022

These stories are suffused with many disparate elements from my own experience - as a migrant, as a worker in Her Majesty’s Prisons, as a misfit, at odds with even her own background; they deal with the agonizing impossibility of ever going “home” , the anguish of belonging nowhere.

When her best friend is caught up in a Cinderella fairytale, Bea takes her placing, hoping that her utter ineptitude at all things Princess will result in a quick expulsion from the story. It should be easy - so long as she doesn't fall for the Prince and try to claim a story that was never hers...

An engineer finds a murder victim in a hurricane wrecked home, gets entangled in blackmail, three-dimensional deceit, and an heiress, who will be dead if he cannot stay alive long enough to save her.

After a space alien corporation cancels research on enhancing barnyard animals with superpowers, the chicken, the least developed experiment, must overcome self-doubt and the lack of a superpower to save her fellow animals and stop an alien corporate executive from stealing the Earth’s cattle.

Terra Incognita is a Y.A. sci-fi book in which three teenagers are transported to Earth’s future. Caught in a conflict between humans and a race of human-plant hybrids called Numin, Jimmy, Nyota and Terry have to decide who, if anyone, they can trust to help them get back home.

How do you tell someone if they are about to fall over? By telling them to look behind them, because it's probably too late by the time you have yelled, "watch out!". The Silent Child in Me explores how our past can catch up with us and unless understood and dealt with can wreak havoc on our future.

Memoir of my marriage to Christina and our search for the truth about her past, her mother’s origins and life during WWII, and the identity of her father.

A DCI fighting OCD must face his lifelong fear, proving he is worthy of promotion
Matt Johnson is a Lancastrian DCI suffering from severe OCD (Intrusive thoughts & visions) and a fear of dogs. Up for promotion, he must solve murders in the dog show world, proving his issues don't affect his ability

This book came from a personal experience of healing myself from a chronic illness.
Unexpectedly, I found the answer lied in our body’s energy fields.
The energy fields indicate whether body’s immune system is challenged or healthy or strong, giving me a blue print to help myself and others.

When Meena’s sister Shehnaz has an arranged marriage, she begins to see why things are the way they are and how they should change. Eyes that Gave Up their Search explores what happens in the midst of social churn and what this means for a girl who is growing up and a family that is growing apart

A boy's ill mother is nearing death when he learns of his real birthplace: a land that holds a cure. Drawn there, he opts to seek this cure, but learns this land's nature threatens the home he left behind. While exploring he must choose: focus on helping his family, or on helping his homeland.