When Matthew Caldwell leaves school, his journey to tomorrow appears to be mapped out. He is engaged to be apprentice to Tom Schofield, the blacksmith in the Norfolk village that has not only been Matthews home but his whole world. But destiny has other plans for the lad - plans that involve seduction by a string of older women, apparitions induced both by strong home-brew booze and visitations from the spirit world, Spanish treasure and skulduggery. Swept along in a rapid sequence of events that often seem too much for a young man to cope with, Matthew makes many wrong decisions. But will he...

When Tom, a graphic designer and artist in semi-retirement, takes his metal detector to the site of a Roman villa on the River Tas near Norwich, he unearths more than a slice of history. Gold coins, jewels, silverware and precious artefacts from antiquity start to fill his life and the cottage he shares with his new love, Helen. A working trip to Rome takes Tom to the Vatican in the exalted company of a Russian archaeologist, Professor Borodin. Can the Professor and a mysterious Russian cardinal help Tom unlock the secrets of Maximus Afranius, a fabulously wealthy Roman commander who settled...

Mariners Nine takes us on a rip-roaring modern-day odyssey across the high seas in a beautiful fifty-foot sloop called the Ancient Mariner. We sail from the marshes of West Mersea in Essex across the Atlantic to Barbados, Panama, the Galapagos, Tahiti, Patagonia and Peru.One of the mariners, Pete, is left with the sea in his blood, and makes life-changing decisions for himself, his wife Sarah, and their children. Then, in the waters off Barbados he meets man's greatest enemy at sea. A hurricane? A maelstrom? No: a silent shadow designed for killing...Mariners Nine has instant appeal to...