Book of the week and Feature Article, "Sailor's Heart", The Courier, Dundee, April 23rd 2022
Book of the week and Feature Article, "Sailor's Heart", The Courier, Dundee, April 23rd 2022
Book of the month, "Sailors Heart", Yachting Monthly, UK, February 2022
Book of the month, "Sailors Heart", Yachting Monthly, UK, February 2022
5 Star Excellence Award, "Sailor's Heart", Historical Fiction Company, Macon, Georgia, July 2023
5 Star Excellence Award, "Sailor's Heart", Historical Fiction Company, Macon, Georgia, July 2023
Poems, Prose, Pies & Pints
Book Launch - Adrift in the Cemetery
A story about surviving among the dead
Davie Perdue was a cop. Now he is homeless, by choice, living in limbo in one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
He’s not a missing person, because nobody is looking for him in the London that he’s left or in his Scottish home town where he’s hiding.
When someone goes into the cemetery alive and comes out dead, Davie becomes a person of interest.
The cemetery used to be a place where families got lost looking for grandad’s grave. Now it’s a quiet place for drug deals and murders.
When life and death in the cemetery get confused, Davie is forced to decide whether to step back into the light or keep his life on hold.
Book Launch
Book Launch - Sailor’s Heart
A story about cowardice and heroism in the Arctic Convoys.
Based on true events.
1942.The war at sea is being lost. One per cent of all naval personnel are being referred as psychiatric casualties. The British Admiralty introduces the Stone Frigate approach.
Three men fight for their country in the Arctic convoys of World War II, then for their sanity and dignity, labelled as cowards and subjected to experimental psychiatry at an isolated facility set up by the British Admiralty to recycle men back into battle.
To the Navy they are faulty parts, not constitutionally suited to operate at sea. To the public they are poltroons, malingerers and psychiatric cases.
The places in this story are real, but everyone who played a part in what happened is now dead. It is safe to tell what really happened. What was important then, nobody cares about now.
True courage is facing danger when you are afraid, surviving in the circus of war.
Book Launch
Book Launch - Bad Beat Hotel
A story about poker and plumbing
There are no murders in this story, just killer hands and players drawing dead.
It is a story about poker and plumbing. Once a week the players come together to play their cards, trying to find the zone avoid bad luck, bad beats and bawbags. There are many types of poker and many types of players.
Vince doesn’t play, but thinks he's a business man who thinks he knows a way of making money from poker. Arthur and Rab both learned how to play when they met in the Mad Hotel and saw fruit Ninjas throwing cards at bananas. Arthur plays for succour after his wife disappeared. A poker table is the only time that Rab, aka Frank the Penguin, will sit down with anyone not committed to the Cause. Lee learned how to play in prison, for a crime that he's still paying for. Welsh doesn’t want to know what he did, but thinks he's about to find out.
Shuffle up and deal.