In retirement in Winter's Song sheltered accommodation fot the aged Adam Mulberry found each of his aged companions had an untold story to tell. Fascinating anthologies of their life experiences, which he slowly extracted from them as respect and confidence grew between them. It had been hard at first, but gradually for many of them Adam had compiled a file of their personal happenings in his laptop. Each of these senior persons was a walking history book which in some cases went b...

*World War 2, London 1940. For 76 consecutive nights Adolph Hitler unleashed the fury of his Luftwaffe on Britain's largest city in a nonstop hail of bombs that had helpless civilians wilting under their blast. Step Green was three weeks old and his sister Tess two years when the Green family of eleven siblings sought refuge from the bombing and in desperation were evacuated from London's East End and dispatched to sympathetic countries of the British Empir...

Paul Walker, head teacher who when happily married to the love of his life, became widowed after twenty seven years. For three years he shouldered his grief, being unable to accept another woman into his lonely world, until he was drawn to the rescue of Sylvia Livingstone, a maiden in distress who was also facing challenging times with her life in crisis. With a mutual attraction the backgrounds of two devoted people are exposed in a traumatic revelation that focuses on the rehabil...

Retired Chief of Detectives Phillip Maynard finds life difficult to handle following the death of his wife after forty-five years of marriage. When waking in hospital from a near-death experience, he is told a young man brought him to the emergency department. Of course, it could only be young Robert Gardener, whom he had met recently. Keen to repay Robert for saving his life, Phillip goes to Robert's home to meet his mother Andrea. When accused of trespassing and told that Andrea ...

Terror and violent death haunt the remote wilderness of the Catlins, deep in New Zealand's South Island. An animal kills only for food—but the killer in the Catlins is no animal. This is something far more dangerous… and far more deliberate.Gloria Stuart is found murdered in her isolated farmhouse in the Clutha Valley, the victim of a savage attack. Her husband, Angus, is discovered nearby—unconscious, bloodied, and drunk. The verdict is swift: guilty. Life...

Joseph Scott entered the school of life in February 1990, the younger of two brothers. In this vast classroom of experience, he learned to live, to laugh, to forgive, and to grieve—but love? That was something he was born with. Guided by an innate kindness, Joe navigates adulthood carrying the love he holds for his family, facing the challenges and joys that come with caring for aging parents. Familiar Surroundings invites readers into Joe...

Brad Mason had never known a father's love. Whenever he raised the question his mother's answer was always the same. 'He was a good man.' Tilly Mason was a hooker on Kings Cross. Brad left Sydney on her death to seek seclusion in the outback of Australia. Trees, a paddock, a stream, no electricity, and no people, all this enabled him to fulfil his dream; play guitar and paint. His landscapes were good. Lester Arnold, an ex-patriot Nashville musician, recognised the potential of Bra...

The dramatic disappearance and subsequent death of socialite and art critic William Bond Walshe when his pleasure cruiser The Owl was wrecked off the Devon coast was neither an accident, nor a random killing. It was a premeditated and precise act of murder planned by much sought after criminal Glenys Hasting. Glenys had fled New Zealand with hundreds of millions of NZ dollars accrued by a syndicate of criminals who themselves were unable to avoid the law before paying the ultimate ...

The stirring sequel to The Bringing Down of the Hawk. A gripping story involving industrial espionage in New Zealand and the effect it has on the lives of Auckland business man Ted Starling and his bride to be Dawn Graham. The opening chapter involves German fighter pilot ace Broer Altschul and describes the events that led to his relocation to New Zealand following his capture in North Africa. Dawn Graham, the founder of her own design and fashion organization, working only in New...

Charlie Lampton was a star; Master of the House and as he proclaimed on stage, 'the best innkeeper in town,' but he was a slave to his destiny as he lost his wife through a ruptured marriage, his house through the pressure of a massive mortgage and everything he owned to the hands of thieves. With life at its lowest things were destined to get worse when his best friend and theatrical understudy died in suspicious circumstances. It was then a chance meeting with retired Sydney poli...

From London to New Zealand Laurie Davidson spent twenty five years travelling the world with his guitar pumping out his music as a busker on the cobbles and in the markets, wearing the personal injustice heaped upon him like a badge of honour. There was no other way. He was a proud man and took the social rejections on the chin, picked himself up and was straight back into it. When down and out there was but one way for him to go and that was up and he wouldn't be stopped. Four years of pr...

Ned Newman a potentially retired real estate agent and frustrated writer is an insignificant character in this tale of intrigue which thrives on the devious and life threatening actions of a select band of ruthless individuals inspired by greed. Unknowingly Ned has become the thorn in the side of one of New Zealand's richest men, Eric Dunsheath, who by his own admission will stop at nothing to fulfil his goals and dreams. Eric is a vertically challenged male from the wrong side of ...