Synopsis Catherine Maitland was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian mother and a British father but, unlike her pale-skinned mother, Catherine is brown. Sent ‘home’ to boarding-school, she endured loneliness, and then the trauma of her mother’s death. Later, when mining engineer Hugh Oates is attracted by her ‘difference’ she is happy to marry him […]
Category Archives: Books – fiction
ISBN 0-7472-5296-3 Headline Review Published 1996 Available from Amazon In her cottage on a remote Scottish island, Harriet Falmer has almost forgotten that solitude is not the normal human state. Conscious of the burden of guilt that drove her here, she lives from day to day, working in her garden, fishing, exploring the hills – […]
ISBN 0-7472-5297-1 Headline Review Published 1996 Available from Amazon or from the author (contact me) Julian Kersland, a talented but crippled violinist and leader of a baroque ensemble in Glasgow, is the focus of the needs and theories of a diverse range of people. Early on, his school chaplain convinced him that the accident to […]
ISBN 978-1-84396-398-1 Littoralis Press, £3.99 2nd edition 2016; now available as an ebook ‘Love, lust, pottery and fossils’ – and the wild northern coasts and moors of Sutherland … Set in the far North of Scotland, this is a modern story of the love of two very different men for local artist and potter […]
When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House in Cornwall, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history … Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson: their […]
“Where was the truth? Madeleine asked the African violet on the window-sill. She was no longer sure. The vile dog Bob had been dead for years but he would have lied in any case, had he been able. ..” Three characters: Ruth pulls the old man’s bag open and stares “into the cat’s unblinking eyes. […]