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Little Beechdown This is a novel about a village and a village is its people and their goings on. Little Beechdown has its pub, the Cheesemans Arms, its church with new vicar Scott Mayfield, its village shop run by the local gossip Mrs. Batchelor, a village green and the school with its dedicated teachers and of course the caring local doctor Tim Gosforth who lost his wife some years ago. Add to the mix the local formers, their farm workers a...

Sam is the story of a young girl growing up with loving parents but then setting sail on a sea of turmoil involving various partners and births all of which she survives intact after an interesting journey through life. A precocious young girl jourmeys through childhood, university, relationships, motherhood and a career in social services while maintaining her personal integrity throughout.

This is a story about one ordinary family and their trials and tribulations over a few years of their lives. Love and betrayal, sex and relationships all tangled up with the the now and then stress of everyday living. Exploring the vagaries of human emotions and feeling and their interaction between one member of the family and another. The novel creates the characters that dance to the tune of the author to produce a fascinating pattern of ev...

David Matlock was not a happy man. His marriage to Rachel was, you might say, petering out. The couple agreed on only one thing, that was that their marriage was at an end. On the rebound from that sad failure of a relationship, David takes succour in a rundown country cottage to occupy his new found freedom. That was good as far as it went but soon the need for human companionship came to the fore and so did Catherine Southerby, a new member ...

The opening scenes reveal the Robuck nfamily as essentially dysfunctional with Rebecca on sick leave due to depression. The teenagers are unhappy and unhelpful and the youngest child, while in no way mistreated, is emotionally neglected. Simon has retreated from his family problems into an affair with a beautiful Eurasian girl who works in the same insurance office with him. The plot unfolds as the main characters battle to make sense of their...

Ruby Warrinton-Smythe, a rich twice widowed woman, is rather bored with life despite her fine living. Her niece Emma, a university student, gets into a sexual entanglement with her University Professor which her ex-boyfriend resents to the extent of taking revenge on the professor which escalates into attack and criminal damage. Brother David has married his brother's widow after a long running affair, but the couple find their passion wanes. ...

When Ronald Jenkinson, a widower, and a retired senior university lecturer tires of his own company and decides to start up a book club, little does he know what a disparate group of people will respond to his summons. They form the basis of the novel as it attempts to use contemporary realism to describe something of the way they live. A varied group drawn together only by their interest in books. From the great bulk of criminally inclined An...

This is the story of a twelve year old boy warped by casual abuse from his uncaring mother, bullied at school and seemingly without hope for the future although he does have his dreams of a better life. Much of the story describes the boy's early trials and tribulations, sometimes with a touch of humour as for instance when he meets and forms a fleeting relationship with a young French girl he meets in the park or later when at the age of thir...

Finding the body of a young girl in the woods whilst musing on the frailties of human relationships (particularly those with his mistress and his wife) fails to make Peter's life less complicated. It tumbles him into a period of enforced maturity when he either has to start sorting out his life or give himself up to his sexual longings. This adult-rated book explores the complex emotional and sexual relationships between: husbands, wives...

Relationships between two adults and between parents and their children are common. This story is about a different sort of relationship in which a young librarian and a totally dysfunctional eleven year old boy form a growing bond strengthening through time and association. The child's resistance to anything educational, and the way in which the librarian tries to alter the boy's mindset, form the backbone of the story, but perhaps more signi...