Writing Award 2022

Cassandra Samsons life is on an upswing socially, romantically, and career-wise. But she awakens in an unfamiliar body in a futuristic world, to realise that her entire life was digital, and broadcast to millions. She now must participate in a festival dedicated to the success of her show/life.

Callum is lost in his lonely late-twenties, until he is visited by what appears to be the ghost of the son he never knew he had. In a journey that is as sweet and comical as it is heart-breaking, Callum confronts his own past insecurities with the help of an unexpected guardian angel.

Home Sweet Home - A haunted house let by unscrupulous letting agents to unwitting, wayward tenants who then go missing in mysterious and often frightening circumstances – enter at your peril.

An action-packed story of sex, drugs, kidnap and magic. Set in an alternative 1980s Italy, six misfits are trapped in a condemned tenement as synthetic snow threatens to swallow it. Their stories intertwine while, far away in a southern village, sickly Giovanna reveals her vindictive powers.

After the suspicious death of her best friend in London, a former American journalist sets out to find her killer and gets tangled in a 2003 CIA operation to save world leaders from an Al-Qaeda attack.

Grace Morrigan is adjusting to life without her husband of forty years. Can she reclaim her sense of self? And how many people will she kill along the way? Set in Blackheath Village, Miss Marple meets Villanelle in this cosy crime novel with an edge.

In this tale of nature spirits, coracles and friendship, Isa is on a mission to save the land.

A dark, psychological thriller about a disturbed man's reaction to his mother's death and the police officer whose job it is to stop his murderous journey to his version of salvation.

A thief, a reluctant apprentice and a riddle no one can solve. Welcome to the good ship Apple Pie - a peculiar pastry-inspired ship where cannons shoot rotten pies, crew members fight with scissor swords and adventures happen before breakfast.

Late one night, Belle McGee sees her long-lost first love Fionn Power. But Fionn was murdered the night before. The impossible encounter brings back the memories of 1986 and its shameful secret and sets her on a journey to discover who murdered Fionn and why.

A conflicted mortal girl openly uses forbidden Fae magic to save herself from drowning, but gets more than she bargained for when she wakes up in the palace of the Fae Queen, and discovers two kingdoms at war.

The Age of Pisces erupted in the fourth century, heaving the Cross upon an unsuspecting world. Among those contending with the machinations of the ever more powerful Church was the woman we know as Hypatia of Alexandria. The received legend of Hypatia depicts her as a voice in the wilderness again

Currently disowned by England, privateer Garret Connachan saves a drowning crewmate of an infamous pirate. In return, he discloses a plot to defraud Spain’s King. Garret faces overturning the plot or forever being labeled a pirate—not only by the King but also by former ally, Queen Elizabeth.