Set in a small town in the North East at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, No Rest for the Wicked is the story of one girl’s journey across a continent to find her true self, her family, and true love.

A gripping and dramatic novel based on real-life events of Mary Ann Cotton, the famous 19th Century case of a woman condemned and hanged for murder who (pure legend and hearsay has it…) was guilty of as many as twenty murders.

Benbow Hall and its walled garden are the steady centre in an otherwise chaotic world of the Benbow and Leeming families.

The compelling story of a young artist Gabriel Marchant who throws aside the stigmata of poverty and unemployment. 

The child Theo Maichin is left for dead on a Welsh beach by her brother Edward, a charismatic young preacher, whose private cruelties dominate  the lives of  his family.

In 1991, during the death throes of communism, divorced children's writer, Olivia Ozanne, sets off for Moscow to visit her journalist daughter, Caitlin.  She has no intention of getting involved in anything except an interesting holiday.

This first novel of the Kitty Rainbow trilogy starts on the banks of the River Wear and ends up in the London of Jack the Ripper.  Kitty, adopted daughter of a bare-knuckle fighter, Ishmael Slaughter, grows up wild and stubborn and no poor boxer herself.

When teacher Rachel Waterman answers her door one day, at first she does not recognize the tall, blond young man standing before her.  Then she sees he is her pupil of twenty years before.

With her bright clothes and dark eyes, middle-aged eccentric Jenefer Loumis seems to understand Finnoula Montague in a way her own tyrannical, bed-bound mother Esther never has.

On the terrible November night when the blitzed city of Coventry loses its heart and  its cathedral, Lizza King is comforted in her grief at the death of her daughter, not by her husband Roland, but by his friend Krystof, a Polish refugee, who understands Lizza's suffering only too well.

Set in the dourly impressive coal country of the North East and the teeming metropolis of nineteenth-century Manchester, this is an impassioned story of love, repression and freedom.

In 1895, seven-year-old Susannah travels from Wales with domineering father, Caradoc, her timid mother, and her brothers, to find work and a home in the mining communities of the North East.