Writing Award 2022

The lengths to which a father will go to protect his family in the face of dreadful danger, despite the resistance, fears, and doubts of those closest to him. In the final confrontation, he overcomes his greatest fear and finds help from an unexpected source.

Who Killed God - It's either the prophesied second coming, which would make this the New, New Testament or the story of a very dangerous man and the emancipation of women.

William Swallow, a twice-escaped British convict endeavours to steal the navy brig Cyprus from his captors in order to sail from Australia to England and reunite with his family.

A reluctant clairvoyant must embrace her gifts or risk losing her daughter to a religious cult. Think Rosemary’s Baby meets A Discovery of Witches.

In a post-pandemic world with 95% of the population dead, small groups of people fight to survive. The story follows Jenny Harper in her reluctant quest to find out what happened, what killed the people and why. The pandemic was not a natural phenomenon, but nor was it man-made, as many thought...

All families have secrets. Deborah’s family has ghosts— a quartet of buttinsky spirits whom her father rescued from the Holocaust. But not everyone makes a habit of killing their rivals only to find they’ve joined her hauntourage.

In a future world, a visitor challenges an underground community with a fantastic new technology that will bring humans back to Earth’s surface. But the very technology that can save them violates The Law that has kept them alive for a generation. Their choice is freedom or continuing in slavery.

A 600+ day account of the pandemic based on the following.

1. Events around the world
2. Covid and it’s effects on everyone’s life and my predictions
3. My life, home, how I survived it. What I did and my positive attitude
4. Trips down memory Lane
and shared with social media.

Abigail's life as a servant at the castle is hard: she’s an orphan and an outcast. When a fairy reveals her family is alive but cursed, and she must find enchanted items to lift it, she doubts she can save them. But she wants to be loved. An adventure about finding one’s courage and one’s compass.

When a Royal Bengal Tiger in an Indian sanctuary falls victim to ruthless poachers and corrupt forest rangers, the animals assemble to avenge their dead king, and a timid squirrel squares up to a vicious leopard to ascend to the vacant post of The King Of The Jungle.

Ernest Morrell’s life isn’t falling apart but his grasp on it is. One day, reaching his breaking point, he dons a troll mask and kidnaps his own son from daycare as part of an ill-conceived scheme to get back at his wife for being too unflappable.

Rayless Brown needs a dream come true to turn his 'if' into a 'when', however in Nocturne dreams can turn into nightmares and fight back

An English aristocrat assumes a highwayman's identity to restore stolen fortunes, meeting the love of his life along the way. Unbeknown to him he had killed her fiancé in a duel and she was out for revenge.

A female lawyer secretly working for a banned human rights NGO in Dubai where blackmail, misogyny, and modern slavery lurk beneath a veneer of glitz and police-state propaganda, starts an affair that puts her life in danger and pitches her against the merciless law of the desert.

My four part story traces my 40 year's experiences as a trained nurse; training in a busy hospital in the 1950s; as a London district nurse in the 60's; as the sole nurse on the feudal Island of Sark in the Channel Isles, and a rural district nurse in New Zealand.

A powerful clairvoyant with an omniscient rule over Paradis loses his grip when the technology he invented can’t assign a fate for one modest girl. She awakens to a weird reality and the two join forces for Good only to faceoff in a deadly competition with the future of humanity in the balance.

Changing the Sky is a meta-modernist retelling of Odyssey, in which two humble refugees embark on an arduous quest to achieve liberty and happiness replacing a traditional male protagonist's perspective.

Troubleshot - A horror story of local politics, a satire, charts the plight of a village falsely identified as a trouble-hotspot, and a community that will benefit from public-sector support, whether they like it or not.

Based on true events, the story of James Lambert, the apothecary who, two hundred years ago, taking on the incompetence and nepotism of the medical establishment, helped change doctors and hospitals forever but died young and reviled. The untold story of the birth of modern health care.

Fearing prosecution for procuring a suicide, Timothy smuggles his terminally ill wife out of the UK to Dignitas in Switzerland where he meets Kimberleigh, an alluring but equivocal woman who seems intent on romance. Can Timothy overcome the guilt and heartbreak, and is Kimberleigh all she seems?