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 :

 

 

Excerpts and downloads

 

Here you can download complete free short stories, some of which have never been published before.

You can read them directly from the website, but if you want to save the files, just click with the right mouse button and select "Save as...".

 

 

Supermarket

Suitable for 7 to 11 years old.

 

In the Bleak Midwinter

A story for Christmas.  Suitable for 13 years old and over.

 

The Devil In Him

This story will be published in the Great Football Treble 2 - Beautiful Games : Eight Football Stories published print-on-demand by BacktoFront.  

 

Traps

This is suitable for children between the ages of 11 and 13.  

 

 

You will need Adobe Reader to view the stories - click on the logo to get the latest version.

 

 

More stories will appear here in the future.  Let me know what you think of the stories so far.

 

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