Writing Award 2022

In 15th century Florence, convent-raised Caterina, forced to marry at fourteen, falls for charismatic Giuliano de Medici, who introduces her to secular art, literature, earthly pleasure, love, and tragedy, which sets her on a quest to the courts of Paris and London to find her long-lost father.

Five participants in a reality show filmed on a distant planet are mankind’s only hope when hostile aliens trace the program’s signal back to earth.

Cats are better than sex, or at least that is what veterinary nurse Meg thinks after her husband dumps her. The life of a veterinary nurse, with a bit of romance, a few tears and rather a lot of wine make up the novel, Puppy Breath.

When a warrior trained girl struggling with self-belief makes an ancient Choice in Stonehenge on her eighteenth birthday, she sets in motion a hunt across two worlds to find her; she must trust herself if she is to survive and discover her true destiny.

In 1906 Boston, a married heiress, fascinated with making miniatures to help unravel unexplained deaths, secretly plunges into the male-dominated world of criminal investigation by living a double life as an unmarried pathologist, finding love, adventure and her true life's passion along the way.

Caitlin was only eleven when she killed Darren’s young daughter, Riley. Ten years on and he’s searching for her. If he finds her, what will he do?

A Star In Her Crown introduces Brenda Sue Barrington, a washed-up foreign correspondent whose hometown coverage of a backwoods congressional race in Florida’s Big Bend puts her back in the national spotlight—and in a killer’s crosshairs.

A physically massive teenager named James must choose between attending two competing high schools. The schools will fight for their reputation and eventual actual survival.

An agent working undercover in the global prison system condemns himself by saving a city from an extraordinary attack.

A mixed collection of short stories and poems written in a variety of genres, exploring relationships, traditions and/or beliefs and observations of daily life.

Synopsis.
With One Eye Open
Lorraine Brockbank

With One Eye Open is a coming-of-age drama based in a sleepy New Zealand town at the turn of the twenty-first century. Rocked by a series of disturbing events, the town is awakened from its complacency and propelled into action.

Twenty-seven year old Rita Vegas starts a new job, only to find herself in the frame for murder. She must find and chase down the villain to clear her name, and stay alive.
[This is Book 1 of The Vegas Trilogy]

Before history began, the creators of humanity fought a civil war for the souls of humanity and that war never ended. Millennia later, on an archeological quest deep beneath the Sphynx, the last memory of the creators is awakened in the lost Library of Thoth. Now that war can be brutally concluded.