"Life was back on an even keel, summer was on the way and Natasha decided nothing was ever going to depress her again. It was then that she opened the letter..." It is 1994, seven years after Natasha's marriage to Gerry Masterson. Euan Mackay in self imposed exile in LA receives a telephone call from England with the news that Natasha has now left Gerry and for a year has been living a reclusive life in a large house in Norfolk. Euan immediately returns to England and after learning as much as he can about the break-up of the marriage, he travels up to Norfolk to see her. Their reunion is a...

This is the second book in the Three Lives Trilogy and it is Euan's story. "To an outsider Garrick Square probably looked like any other London square, but it wasn't..." It is March 1989 and Lady Fay Stanhope, the undisputed monarch of Garrick Square, continues to organise it into an elite community of creative professionals and eccentrics. Euan, now a successful writer, is one of these. It is seven years since Celia's tragic death but he still mourns her and has not moved on, that is until Natasha, Celia's daughter, turns up in his life and proceeds to turn it upside down. She is no longer...

This Anthology consists of poems - or 'verses' as I like to call them - taken from four slim volumes and written over a period of six difficult years in my life. One of the poets I have always found most readable is Byron - particularly in his epic poems. In these he airs his innermost feeling and opinions, almost as if he were having a conversation in a room full of people. My verses, although not in any way in his league and certainly not epic, are written in a similar way. The feelings and observations are written in order to connect, sometimes with anger, sometimes with humour, and, in...

Trando is only thirteen years old, but he knows he is the one person who can save his best friend from the electric chair... It is 1919 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Trando Brini, a promising violinist and the child of Italian immigrants, lives quietly with his parents and their lodger Bart Vanzetti. This is not a good time for Italian-Americans. Assassinations and bombings committed by a handful of Italian Anarchists on US soil has resulted in a tense climate of suspicion and paranoia. When known Anarchists Bart and Nick Sacco are arrested for their alleged roles in a fatal holdup, Trando...