Completed fiction

Novel

A God Facing Both Ways
Completed in January 2006, 'Both Ways' tells the story of time traveller Quentin Marsh-Rowland, who tracks down his notorious great-grandmother Nola, to make sense of his own aimless life.

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Short stories

Red Hotel on the Strand (5 pages)
Published in Myslexia, Issue 14, Summer/Autumn 2002
There is no real life, and no dream life, only a choice of games we can play.

Dehydration (4 pages)
Published in Quality Women's Fiction, Issue 40, Winter 2002
If life is like landscape, do we make our deserts blossom or leave them desolate?

The Two-Thirty Guided Tour (4 pages)
Published in Beyond the Boundaries, No. 11, Spring 1997
No job is worth it.
"Funny, sustained and original.... A good attempt to lampoon ghastly bus tours!" - QWFReader

Unawares (7 pages)
Published in Xenos, April 1997, and translated into French for broadcast by Media Communications in 2000
Get it off your chest, the Samaritans say. Never know who might take their offer.
"It's not very often a story grabs my attention and holds it to the final sentence.... Excellent characterisation and pace, with a poignant message in a perfect satisfying conclusion." - Jo Good, Quality Women's Fiction editor, writing in Zene