NOVELS
TOMORROW
2018
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, HARPERCOLLINS US
A WINTER'S NIGHT, VENICE, 1815 - A 217-YEAR OLD DOG IS SEARCHING FOR HIS LOST MASTER.
So begins a story of love and loyalty through the centuries. Like his master, Tomorrow is a being that cannot die. Once inseparable, they voyaged across Europe, attending royalty in a dozen courts, healing soldiers on a hundred battlefields, meeting with the greatest minds of the renaissance. Until one day, in watery Venice, his master vanishes without trace. Broken-hearted, Tomorrow begins a search that will endure for generations. But as the continent collapses into war, he must risk everything to find his master - or lose him forever
"WHAT A NOVEL. AMBITIOUS AND WONDERFULLY ACHIEVED.." MICHAEL MORPURGO
"AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE, OF COURAGE, OF HOPE.." LONDON EVENING STANDARD
"BASK IN THE BRILLIANCE.." THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
"A STUNNING AND CAPTIVATING TALE.." THE SUN
"A STORY OF LOVE AND UNBREAKABLE BONDS.." NEW YORK TIMES
"A GRAND SWEEP OF ADVENTURE, WAR AND ROMANCE.." NPR
THE COLOUR STORM
2022
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, HARPERCOLLINS US
LIGHTS
LIGHTS
LIGHTS
IN THESE TIMES, IN THIS GLITTERING, CUTTHROAT WORLD OF VENICE, PAINTERS WILL GO TO ANY LENGTH TO DISCOVER NEW COLOUR, EVEN TO MURDER.
Besieged by fierce competition and mounting debts, the artist Giorgione 'Zorzo' Barbarelli is close to despair when he hears of a fabled colour – a pigment newly arrived in Venice – that might have the power to change his fate.
In chasing it, Zorzo becomes entangled with Sybille Fugger, the enthralling but complicated wife of its proprietor. He soon finds himself engaged in the fight of his life with rival artists, Michelangelo, Titian and Da Vinci – and caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe.
The Colour Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession in Renaissance Venice, capturing a moment of artistic invention that echoes through the centuries.
"HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF RENAISSANCE ARTISTS. HE REDEFINED WHAT PAINTING COULD DO - BUT HIS LIFE IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. WHO WAS GIORGIONE? " THE GUARDIAN
"ADDICTIVE AMBITIOUS AND KNIFE-SHARP. A COMPELLING THRILLER AND A CELEBRATION OF ART. RAVISHING. "RACHEL ROYCE, bestselling author The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
"COLOURFUL & EXUBERANT, A GLORIOUS SUMMER READ.." THE TIMES
"AN ENGAGING THRILLER AND A COMPELLING EXPLORATION OF AN ARTIST'S OBSESSION WITH COLOUR.."
THE SUNDAY TIMES
"ART AND AMBITION, LOVE AND OBSESSION IN THIS COMPELLING AND SPELLBINDING TALE.." STYLIST
THE HISTORY KEEPERS: THE STORM BEGINS
2011
THE HISTORY KEEPERS: CIRCUS MAXIMUS
2011
THE HISTORY KEEPERS: NIGHTSHIP TO CHINA
2014
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
IMAGINE IF YOU LOST YOUR PARENTS - NOT JUST IN PLACE BUT IN TIME...
Jake Djones' family have gone missing and they could be anywhere in the world, at any time in history. For the Djoneses belong to THE HISTORY KEEPERS: a secret society which travels through the past to prevent the evil enemies from meddling with history itself. In the quest to find his folks, Jake is whisked from 21st Century London to 19th century France, the headquarters of the mysterious History Keepers, where he discovers the truth about his family's disappearance and the diabolical Prince Zeldt's plan to destroy the world as we know it, by first undoing the renaissance.
"THE HISTORY KEEPERS'..WE PREDICT EXTREMELY BIG THINGS FOR THIS NEW ADVENTURE SERIES."
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
"MOVE OVER HARRY POTTER. IT IS TIME FOR JAKE DJONES TO TAKE THE LIMELIGHT." TELEGRAPH
"A TIME TRAVELLING DETECTIVE TALE - EXTRAORDINARY." GUARDIAN
"THE NEXT BIG THING." OBSERVER
"PURE MAGIC." GLAMOUR
THE WEDDING GLASS
2026
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
LIGHTS
A painfully shy collector of rare glass has his world turned upside down when he’s persuaded to adopt an orphaned refugee, the ebullient and larger than life Pablo, who may or may not have long for the world or
be who he seems.
An epic fable of family, tragedy and wonder. A ghost story that also tells the tale of England. Heart breaking, life affirming and full of unexpected humour.