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Welcome to my website. I'm a fiction story writer, and have published two novels as of April 2025.My first novel, The Lords of Belvedere, was released in October 2023, and is available from book shops and online retailers around the world in both paperback and e-book formats.The House on the Hill was released in April 2025 on Amazon, again in dual format. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, the e-book is available to download free of charge.Please read on to discover more about both books.
Readers' reviews of The Lords of Belvedere"Didn't want it to end.""A modern-day Downton Abbey. I wanted to keep turning the pages."
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The Lords of Belvedere
A contemporary tale of passions, grudges, deceit and hope, centred around a family's life on a Kent country estate
Available as a paperback and also as an e-book (priced at £3.99 in the UK - please check your home country websites for the local equivalent).Paperback ISBN: 978-1-80074-973-3
From Olympia Publishers, a gripping story that explores the complex family relationships within the Belvedere family. While Lord and Lady Belvedere contemplate the future of the estate in the 21st century, their children pursue their own lives, each harbouring resentments and rivalries. But when the eldest son brings an outsider into their midst, can they work together, or will the ensuing fireworks destroy the foundations of the family and the estate's future?The story follows the lives of the characters over an eighteen-month period. Things will change forever for all of them...
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Meet some of the characters...Henry, the eldest child. A tortured soul, trying to live the life of an artist in southern Spain, away from the responsibilities that await him back in England. All he wants is to find a little happiness...George, the second son. Proud, resentful and bitter. Runs his own farm with his wife, Mary, well away from Kent. There are harsh memories that lurk on the estate every time he returns.Robert, the estate manager. Handsome, rugged and determined. His father was estate manager before him, but how does he really feel about the family that employ him?Lauren, his wife. Beautiful, sexy, chic, confident. By her mid-twenties she has it all...a good job, trophy husband and a comfortable home on the estate. But how well does she really know her husband?Mary, George's wife. Down to earth and practical, but her sharp mind sees the dangers ahead, leaving her balancing precariously between family members. She wants to do the right thing, but how far will her frustrations push her?Anna, Henry and George's sister. A high-achieving, driven woman, with no patience for the rules of a 'man's world'. She's nobody's fool, but is fed up with being treated as everyone else's problem-solver.Juan Marco, a young man who works in the cafe-bar frequented by Henry in Spain. When Henry starts showing an interest in him, it provokes a war with his mother who will protect her son at all costs.Maria, Juan Marco's mother. She's led a hard life and carries bitter memories. Her son is her prized possession. How will she react when someone threatens to come between them?
and there are others...Lady Belvedere, who tries to keep the peace and stay positive, counter-balancing her worrisome husband...Mrs Tanner, the former housekeeper and unofficially the holder of so many secrets...
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The House on the HillA thriller that will keep you riveted until the end...
This is my new novel; a sharply-written tale over three hundred and twenty pages, using dialogue as much as possible to keep the action coming. So...read on if you want to know how used car dealer Steve Lenton's life is about to change.
Steve Lenton runs his own used car dealership in north London. He's moderately successful professionally, but his life has slipped into a routine dominated by work since his divorce. He knew his father had been married before meeting Steve's mother, but the half-sister he has never known comes from a well-to-do Derbyshire family. When she and her husband die, Steve finds out he has inherited a small country house just outside Ashbourne. And so the game commences...
Introducing the other main characters:• Sarah Calding - an old woman who previously owned Bella Vista House, and who created the entailment that has led to Steve Lenton's inheritance
• Victoria Calding - Sarah's beautiful and successful daughter. With a job in Parliament and a confident personality, how far will Steve Lenton go to become intimate with her?
• Colin Deakin - a retired Derbyshire Police detective, who worked on the case of the mysterious disappearance of a girl from a party at Bella Vista in the early 1960s. Can he help Lenton understand what happened on that fateful night, and reassure him that it has no bearing on the present?
...And featuring two gritty Derbyshire Police detectives, who are caught up in a complicated case that taxes their limited resources and patience...and a young London detective called in to assist with their inquiries, whose confident exterior is tested by the smooth, seductive charm of one of the key witnesses
Available now on Amazon at great prices! The e-book is just £1.99 (or local currency equivalent), and free if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited.Paperback version ISBN: 9-7983-1-6753-628
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