Find out what progress I'm making with new books, and hear about my plans

 

 

Special Offer !  

While stocks last, the Joslin de Lay Mysteries, the Hare Trilogy and Out of the Mouths of Babes are sold as new, signed by the author and personally dedicated to the buyer if specified !  Click here for details

 

 

If you want to see want you can buy that is currently in print, there is an update to this section here.  For links to buy books secondhand through Amazon Marketplace, see the complete works here.

 

 

 

 

You can purchase all my current books at Amazon, and you can even get the older ones from Amazon marketplace.

 

 

Now available from OUP

The paperback edition of Mystery Stories - click on the picture.  From creepy school computers to bungling bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents :

 

 

The Books

You can see a complete list of everything I've had published, learn about my non-fiction works and download some complete new stories.

And if you want more detailed information about the Joslin de Lay mysteries, see this feature.

 

 

Books currently in print

For links to buy books secondhand through Amazon Marketplace, see the complete list of works here.

 

Published by OUP

An Oxford Anthology of Mystery Stories

 

The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories

 

Trains

  

Published by Back-to-Front  (Print on demand) :

The Fourth Plane at the Flypast

 

Great Football Treble 1

 

Haunted United

 

Great Football Treble 2

 

Beautiful Games (eight football stories)

 

Great Football Treble 3

 

Death Penalty

 

The Ghosts Who Waited

 

 

Published by Franklin Watts :

Billy Warren: the Diary of a Young Soldier in World War 1  hardback

Billy Warren: the Diary of a Young Soldier in World War 1  paperback

 

Johnny Hedley: the Diary of a Fighter Pilot in World War 2 hardback

Johnny Hedley: the Diary of a Fighter Pilot in World War 2 paperback

 

The First World War hardback

The First World War hardback

 

The Second World War (hardback)

 

Yule Logs now out !

Click on the cover to order from Amazon UK

Christmas has always been and always will be a special time of year, a time either of great happiness or great sadness and sometimes both.   Here are eight stories of different Christmases, all of which are memorable in their different ways.

The stories are arranged in order of age: the first for young children, the last for adults.

There are two World War 2 stories, one which refers to it and one which refers to another war.  There’s a football story, a ghost story and  two stories with carols in them - and a lot more besides.   There’s a story about a really weird Christmas guest and another about a tumultuous family row.   All ordinary Christmases to start with, but which turn into being anything but ordinary.

Each story has a postscript telling what real memory lies behind it and how it came to be written.

 

 

Many of my earlier books are back in print via the Back-to-Front imprint of the Solidus Press. I have chosen some of my favourites to be rereleased by this new publisher. Here are some that you can read now :

 

The Great Football Treble

All three books are now available.  You can buy them by clicking on the titles :

Haunted United

Beautiful Games

Death Penalty

 

Two chilling ghost stories

You can buy them by clicking on the titles :

The Ghosts Who Waited

The Railway Phantoms