First Book in the Brothers of the Sword series - Harry Woods innocently starts working for the 800 year old Order of God's Children on the marketing of their crusade for a return to moral responsibility and strict discipline.But he discovers the evil beneath the cloak of their religious respectability - they are going to take action now and they don't care how many sinners die.Harry didn't want this dangerous knowledge and is now caught up in a future that will break his fami...

A strange love story! Richard Hooper is a middle aged man trapped in a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling job where the decisions are made by the computer and with nothing to look forward to for the rest of his life. He decides to buy a new car and instead of a conventional family estate he buys a coupe as his children have flown the nest. This decision changes his life with surprising results, he will never be the same again! This story was originally a radio play I wrote back in 2008 ...

It's a conundrum... without Evil you wouldn't need Good and vice versa. So when a rogue angel makes a deal with a devil against the wishes of BigB (Hades) and the Seraph (Heaven) it doesn't bode well for humanity let alone the rest of the Cosmos....

The Postmaster was quite insistent that Jamie should finish his postal round and that being DEAD was no excuse whatever the Union of Communication Workers said - A Postman's job wasn't just about delivering rectangular envelopes but by understanding the joy and sorrow that they could give as Jamie was about to find out!

Little did Quentin know that when he pulled up outside Malum Grange on a September evening that he was in for a very long night that would frighten him as well as find him a unique love and change his outlook on life forever! “DON’T SHOOT!” He screamed and put his hands up in the air. The moon chose that moment to peek out from behind the clouds and a shaft of light illuminated the face of his captor, a beautiful young lady with long dark hair and a mocking smile on her face. In surprise h...

We would all like a Genie especially when that brown Inland Revenue envelope arrives demanding an amount that seems monstrous in comparison to the miserable amount that we all seem to be earning. Arnold was no exception, as a Graphic Artist his earnings were definitely in line with the biblical concept of feast and famine and inevitably the brown envelopes always land when we are undergoing a financial famine . So when Arnold retrieved a blue flagon from the bottom of a municipal pond that...

A year ago the world had closed down on Michael. His well meaning relatives had persuaded him to become a voluntary patient at a private hospital for the mentally disturbed. The word voluntary wasn’t quite correct. The threat of being sectioned under the the 1983 Mental Health Act and the possibility of having to wear an unfashionable jacket where the sleeves were attached behind his back made his decision inevitable.Alphonse had helped him through the nightmare of his incarceration...

The Reverend Philip Watkins had reached his limit. He was everything a vicar needed to be, strong, kind, helpful, love of other human beings and a belief in God. What could go wrong? After his training period in the East End of London he was given his first parish in an idyllic village in the middle of Oxfordshire. He married the Lord of the Manor’s daughter had two children and on the face of it was blissfully happy. But his father in law was a cruel, powerful and dominating man that made...

Short Story This whimsical short story is wound around the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. Florence and Herbert Hardcastle come from Yorkshire and have been married for over thirty years. It has always been Florence’s wish to see the Pavilion so when they go to Brighton for a short break, Herbert books an interactive tour for them both. Herbert doesn’t realise it but the tour he has booked is more interactive than he could have ever imagined. Both Herbert and Florence are transported back in t...

Third book in the Brothers of the Sword seriesBrother Hugh is a senior accountant in the Holy Ministry of Justice and is insulated from the extremes of the new religious dictatorship until he is forced to witness the punishment meted out to a venal vicar by the sadistic Holy Department of Retribution.His old life crumbles away, he loses his girlfriend, he breaks the Sixth Commandment, becomes reluctantly involved in a power struggle within the Order of God’s Children, makes a...

Second book in the Brothers of the Sword series.Maggie Woods, a school teacher, encounters the realities of the new religious dictatorship. As an unmarried mother it is illegal to have a child and she has to make an Agreement with the Order of God’s Children to betray her father to ensure she does not lose her new born son.

First book in the Brothers of the Sword seriesHarry Woods innocently starts working for the 800 year old Order of God's Children on the marketing of their crusade for a return to moral responsibility and strict discipline.But he discovers the evil beneath the cloak of their religious respectability - they are going to take action now and they don't care how many sinners die.Harry didn't want this dangerous knowledge and is now caught up in a future that will break his ...