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Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland for lovers; a place to indulge in a romantic fantasy world. But if you fell in love with someone in Paris, could you trust your feelings? Would it have a real future? Or should you just get out of there and fall in love somewhere where it’s safe? Five couples try to find the answer on New Year’s Eve in the French capital. By morning …
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a pair of mismatched History students who stumble upon an old gravestone that catapults them back in time. Dealing with the catastrophic fallout of their previous encounter with Amy Parker in 1912, they now race to locate Amy during the 1940 Blitz and become caught up in the nightly German bombings of Birmingham and their chilling aftermath. Touchstone explores a city’s dark past: a gritty world of real danger where …
Touchstone
One touch… and you’re who knows when? Rachel: the dirt poor girl brought up by her single parent father. Danny: the arrogant rich kid who has everything his wealthy parents can afford. Two History students who wouldn’t normally mix, but whose lives become entwined when an old gravestone catapults them back in time. In 1912, they explore their city’s dark past, a gritty, violent, gaslit world of real danger, and try to prevent the murder of a teenage girl at …
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss before midnight? Meet Me in Montmartre is a delightfully romantic short story and a taster for the forthcoming collection, Lovers in Paris, a multi-strand novel about various couples meeting in Paris on New Year’s Eve (to be published September 2011). In this 10,000-word short story, vintage-obsessed English girl Sandy travels to Paris on New Year’s Eve for a blind date with her French pen friend, but …
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man City last won a trophy, and for 35 years it’s been failure for both of them. City have won nothing since, and he’s exiled in Birmingham, temping in a job he hates and living with an ex who hates him. But success might be on the horizon. City are heading for an FA Cup final and Ewan knows he has to get a …
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten years ago, a group of students fell in love with each other and had their perfect moment. Now screenwriter Nathan Beck is back in Budapest to shoot a movie about it. But his return stirs up memories for the old Breakfast Club survivors trying to cope in this city now their perfect moment is over: Gábor lives to make films but writes bubble bath ad copy to live. …
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born? The Very Thought of You is a timeslip ghost story novella about a young man’s obsession with Amy, the dead wife of an old man he visits. Community visitor Jez is assigned Harold, a cantankerous old codger who takes a venomous delight in confrontation and lives in a house that is falling down around him. But when Jez starts to see Amy’s ghost and …
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former eastern bloc is open for business and a war is raging just over the border, but in a Hungarian campus town, a group of students and exiles escape into love and literature. Dylan, a washed up American lecturer with a Tom Waits fixation, has an affair with Erzsi, his vivacious teenage Hungarian student, and a mixed group of students and teachers spend a crazy spring falling in love …
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The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant. Tony is 15 and he’s in trouble. It’s not that he secretly reads James Joyce and his schoolmates would kill him if they found out what a freak he was. It’s not that he’s trying to write his story and can’t find the right voice. It’s that his girlfriend, Janine, is pregnant, and in a couple of months everyone will know and his life will be over. So he’s …
