A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
The Brittle Sea is part of a trilogy and is about love, hope, mental health, and a determination to overcome adversity. Book 1 opens with the main female character, young Magda Asparov. Her father has arranged for her to marry wealthy New York businessman Matthew Turner III and she is travelling, alone, from Ukraine to…
Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that he would hold up to display the headlines that evening. On that day,…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts The Man in Black The lane running alongside the Fordham house, close to Roc la Tour, led south to Tournavaux or west to Monthermé in the Ardennes Forest. It fell to Jessie, as she had always done since her early teens, to…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Ouvrage Schoenenbourg At the fortified outpost of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, part of the fortifications that made up the Maginot Line, the Germans were playing with Capitaine Bertold’s small company of French soldiers. Bertold suspected snipers were playing games, seeing who could put a…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts July 1939 – Basil Shoots the Breeze It was a long drive and Basil, being Basil, decided he needed to stop as the light was fading. Truth be known, the light wasn’t fading, it wouldn’t fade for another two hours. But Basil…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Secrets Albert steered his Citroen 7 through the wide street of the Rue de Rivoli, turning left into a side street. The erratic swish-swash of the windscreen wipers toiling to clear the fine spray of drizzle constantly landing on the screen made…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Friends in High Places Jessie considered herself lucky in some respects and unlucky in others. Life was black and white, good, or bad. There was no grey area, or periods of indifference or maybes about any situation. As a student of philosophy,…
Extract from The Brittle Land, Book Two in The Brittle Saga Trilogy. It was the soft sound of her own gentle snoring that woke her. She sat up and looked around, blinking the sleep from her eyes. She seemed to be in an office. She yawned and looked around again, suddenly realising she recognised nothing….
Rescue Mission A disaster at sea is every sailor’s nightmare, but when the disaster happened to someone else and you have failed to give assistance, that would have repercussions. “A message, you say. A distress call, no less, that has taken,” the Captain paused and looked at the top of the notepaper, “almost two hours…
A Disaster Unfolds The ship ploughed its way through the dark and still waters of the northern Atlantic, heedless of any danger to itself. Her captain had called for full power and her crew had obliged obediently. In the time before the dawn, all those on board who were awake knew something was amiss. A…
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