'Twisting In' is a fictional story of four Nottinghamshire miners caught up in the Derbyshire Pentrich, armed uprising of 1817. It was a time of great poverty in England after the Napoleonic Wars and thousands of families were working all hours and yet could not afford the price of a loaf of bread. They were being cast out of their homes by a harsh, uncaring Regency Government who refused to listen to their pleas.This is a tale of Luddite wrecking, of betrayal and imprisonment. The true facts of the Pentrich Martyrs are included in an appendix and may whet your appetite for the Pentrich &...

Having written two full length novels and dozens of short stories it seemed a natural progression to try my hand at poetry. My poems are not structured in the academic sense, but invariably come from inspiration. Something will prompt me to describe a scene that flashes through my mind. It may be an act of bravery or just something or someone I've read about. if I can write it down in a manner that pleases me, then I will try and polish the wording until it gels as verse. 'Remember Me' (the voice of the dead) came just like that, and I have received emails from people in several countries,...

Twice loved is a one act dramatic play for small theatre groups and radio. It is set in one room, the stately drawing room of Whinsthorpe Grange, where a crisis family meeting has been called by Viscount Peregrine Whinsthorpe, to decide on the future of his youngest son, the wayward, embarrassing Charles. Peregrine's other two sons, a colonel and a vicar, are in agreement that he should be packed off far away to save the family name from further disgrace. Charles' appeal to his mother, Lady Whinsthorpe, falls on deaf ears, but after all the home truths have been levelled against him he has a...