I guess if you’re on an author’s website, you’re probably interested in books – so here are mine. For both the ’86 Fix and Clement books, I’d strongly recommend reading them in order, unless you enjoy being slightly confused about what’s going on.
The ’86 Fix
Released October 2016 | Amazon Bestseller
Available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. To read a sample in your browser, click here.
Synopsis
On the way home from school in 1986, Craig Pelling decided to buy a can of Coke. He wasn’t to know a seemingly innocuous visit to the local newsagent would dramatically change the course of his life. Consequently, Craig now lives in a loveless marriage and earns a living in a dead-end job as the manager of an electrical store. He could have been so much more. He could have achieved so much more.
But fate hasn’t finished with Craig Pelling.
A school reunion proves to be the catalyst for chaos, and decades on from his visit to that newsagent, Craig’s mundane life is turned upside down as his past comes back to haunt him. As he plummets towards rock-bottom, all seems lost for Craig until he’s thrown a lifeline — the miraculous lifeline of a brief trip back in time to 1986. Will he be able to fix his life? Is it as simple as just reverting one decision he made over thirty years ago?
Craig is about to find out.
Beyond Broadhall: The ’86 Fix Conclusion
Released February 2017
Available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. To read a sample in your browser, click here.
Synopsis
fter his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired. Everything he tried to fix is now broken, and a bleak, lonely existence is all Craig has to look forward to.
Does he face that future, or does he try to seek answers? Either way, an emotional rollercoaster ride beckons. Can Craig can find closure before it ends? Or does fate have a few more twists in store for him, beyond Broadhall?
Who Sent Clement?
Released July 2017 | Amazon Bestseller
Available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. To read a sample in your browser, click here.
Synopsis
Beth Baxter always dreamt of being an author. Unfortunately, fate has a twisted sense of humour so rather than writing books, she now sells them in a second-hand bookshop. With middle-age approaching and her life unfulfilled, Beth is at least grateful her forthcoming marriage to Karl is worthy of hope — or, so she thought.
Within the space of a few days, her fiancé’s sordid past catches up with him and Beth finds herself embroiled in a sinister game of hide and seek. As her life is torn apart and hope abandons her, Beth is thrown an unlikely lifeline when a former gangland fixer called Clement crashes into her life and offers help.
Unfortunately for Beth, there is one minor complication with her saviour — Clement claims he died in 1975 and must help Beth as penance for sins committed in his previous life.
With just seven days to avoid a fate she can’t bear to contemplate, Beth chooses the lesser of two evils and reluctantly joins her deluded, politically incorrect companion on a quest across London in search of a solution.
Will this unlikely partnership succeed? Will Clement ever come to terms with paying five quid for a pint? And will Beth ever learn the truth about who sent Clement?
Wrong’un
Released January 2018
Available in ebook and paperback – audiobook coming soon. To read a sample in your browser, click here.
Synopsis
Sir Charles Huxley, a former government minister, kept a dark secret — a secret he should have taken to the grave when he died in 1999. His son, William, now lives an uneventful life in his father’s shadow. A middle-aged bachelor, all he has to worry about is his seemingly pointless job as a backbench Westminster politician, and his lonely existence — or, so he thought.
One evening, William has a chance encounter which sets off an escalating series of sinister events, culminating in a damning revelation about his father’s past. That revelation drags William into the darkest of blackmail plots.
With his blackmailer having cunningly closed every exit, William is trapped, and faces personal and financial ruin. That is until an odd job man working at his local bar steps forward and offers help. With no alternative, William is forced to join his peculiar saviour on a desperate mission to stop his blackmailer, and unearth the shattering truth about the wrong’un.
Meeting Mungo Thunk
July 2018
Available in ebook and paperback. To read a sample in your browser, click here.
Synopsis
A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons, and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk.
Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée’s birthday … apparently.
Adam Maxwell isn’t a bad man—he’s just a man who doesn’t stop and think. Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school, and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam has been cursed by a lack of common sense.
Now in his early thirties, that lack of common sense is about to throw Adam’s life into turmoil after one particularly ill-judged decision backfires … with disastrous consequences.
After a rapid descent towards rock bottom, a strange little man by the name of Mungo Thunk then enters Adam’s life. However, not everything about Mungo Thunk is as it first seems. After insisting Adam can rediscover his common sense by agreeing to an unorthodox brand of therapy, the two set about dealing with the raft of challenges Adam has to face.
Can Adam trust the mysterious stranger to fix his thinking and get his life back on track? Or will he come to rue the day he invited Mungo Thunk into his life?
