Novels
The Wicked Shore
Historical Fiction
18th-19th Century France
Vol i: The Queen of Chantilly
The English adventuress Sophie Dawes (1790-1840) caused a great scandal on either side of the English channel. Part One of this fictionalised memoir takes her from the Newport workhouse to the sumptuous Château de Chantilly, where she ‘reigned’ as the Baroness de Feuchères.
Vol ii: The Wicked Shore
19th Century France
19th Century France
Part Two of Sophie’s memoir traces her picaresque adventures in Paris with the mysterious Barry London, and the gradual recapture of her duke. After the luxury of Chantilly came the scandal of Bourbon’s mysterious death.
The Fall of Babylon
Historical Fiction
19th Century France
A Courtesan, a soldier, a revolutionary in the years of grandeur and decay in 2nd Empire France.
– The dying Cora Pearl recalls the years of her splendour.
– A revolutionary’s journey into the rise and fall of the Paris Commune
– A fifteen-year-old illiterate dreams of love but is forced to go to war.
Conspiracy
Mystery-Thriller
2016. Tax accountant Roger Banwell’s world changes when he meets the mysterious Sam(antha) Cox, discovers his best friend works for British Intelligence, and finds himself investigating evil deeds in a French migrant centre.
Finding Jennifer
Mystery-Thriller
When ex-Olympian and former spy Nick Mulholland learns that his long-lost daughter had died in a bomb blast, his investigations churn up memories of a dubious past as life-threatening consequences reach into his present.