Epic love story set in the First World War. Harry Cardwell, 21 year-old shepherd from the border hills, is already a ‘veteran’ of the Somme battlefield. Returning from leave Harry confronts a burly Sergeant auctioning off a tin of intimate love-l...
Morgan Hunter-Brown is ‘Railway Joe’, employed by Interpol to investigate smuggling and financial espionage in cold-war Europe. Alone as always at Christmas, he’s the agent called up for a chase that will lead him north to Germany, ‘...
‘We are strangers who meet in hell,’ she’d written to him in her first letter: ‘We need hide nothing from one another.’ But now that hell has disappeared, it might not be so easy not to hide. A Long Road Home follows the love and brief l...
When this book was first published in the 1980’s, it was dramatised by BBC Radio. After only one episode, the Thatcher government tried to have it taken off air. The then heads of the BBC decided Maximum Credible Accident was ‘factually correct a...
“Your wife’s been captured " and, I’m afraid, tortured.” The senior officer across the desk looked up: “She was heard to scream. We don’t know for how long.” The officer stood up: “I’m very sorry,” he said and shook Harry’s ha...
“The whole country is afraid. People favour the armistice and support the Maréchal. Do not assume anyone will not betray you. Above all, remember the French now hate the English...” It is Christmas 1940, Harry Cardwell and his son Frank escort...
He seemed thinner than Harry remembered, still boyish though he must now be nearly forty: formerly Lieutenant ‘Bunny’ Andrews, leaning on a walking-stick with his smile and genuine delight at shaking the hand of his one-time Lance-Corporal, Harry...
A political thriller following an old-fashioned, one-nation Tory whose family company is forced into liquidation. He loses his family and his dignity and ends up on the streets; but in the end takes revenge on the members of his party whom he believe...