“Why do we remember what would be so much better forgotten?” As I try to frame thoughts about my fourth novel, I know I am repeating ideas you will find in other website entries. When did the ideas for this tale first take shape? Where did they come from? And why has it taken so long for the narrative, never mind the shaping force of memory, to reach completion? My father who. Like David Tynan, served in the Navy during World War II, was not one of those servicemen who never talked of his experiences, indeed my own children were intrigued to learn from him about the perils of the convoy sys...

It was his safe place. No wonder that he would do anything to protect it. Of the friends who visit Mark Atkinson on his island retreat, one of them, a girl called Lori, has been there before. What happened on that earlier visit and where is the friend her parents brought with them? Also, where is the jewellery Mary Arnold entrusted to Mark’s safekeeping before her death? The Hiding Place deals not only with things concealed and the answers we seek, but with friendship and the demands that can be made by pursuing a quest. “Whatever I tell you, I can’t get anywhere close to the impact this s...

“It IS you, though, only you just don’t look the way I thought you would. But it’s the right name.” James Rayburn, Rector of Saint Luke’s, faces various challenges as Christmas approaches. These include a sense of his own weakening faith, unhappy memories and what to say in his Christmas sermon. But Rayburn is to be distracted by the arrival at his house, one wintry night, of a sick, exhausted and seemingly destitute teenage girl called Corrie. “Only now did the chill in her body and the aching in her legs take their toll, for only now did the unthinkable terror that ‘they’ might catch her...

"Nothing could have been lovelier... than the vision of Raineland Lodge presented to her by imagination and memory." The ruins of an ancient priory, some lost church silver and a tale of the English Civil War are all a part of Raineland's long story. Joy Fleetwood returns to her old family home hoping it can provide refuge and can restore a way of life she knew before her days as a nurse and missionary. Perhaps too she can find once more her weakened faith and renew here her love for Tim Wenlock whom she has known from childhood and whose family and hers have long been close. But family tr...