HIDE AND DRINK
Rosemary's an alcoholic and as if to celebrate victory, the Devil has the IRA mortar-bomb 10, Downing Street. Fortunately no one is killed or injured but MI5, desperate to make arrests, initiates a new computer-based campaign designed to locate IRA personnel and collaborators in England. At a rehab group therapy meeting Rosemary bumps into an old flame, Irishman Jack Malloy, just as he is targeted by the computer. When surveillance reports on Jack’s new girl friend, MI5 attempt to blackmail Rosemary into spying on him. She has to sign the Official Secret's Act and is threatened with prison if she turns traitor to her country. It's all too much. Rosie returns to her whisky and the final battle with Satan begins. [2008 - 546 pages ISBN: 9781905996070]
THE JOURNEY
Having lost her beloved parents in a car crash, a depressed Christian woman in her twenties, Rosemary Whyte, prays to see and speak to them again. In response, the ghost of a young Irish boy appears (in a dream?) and tells her: “To do that, ye must go on a journey.” She agrees to go.
But someone else has had an equally vivid experience. Her aunt warns: 'I tell you I saw you in my dream as clear as I see you now, slowly walking down a path lower and lower into some dark evil place shrouded in vile yellow mist with horrible devilish creatures around you. I scream and scream at you. I try to warn you, but you don’t hear or not want to hear. You go on with a silly stupid smile on your face.' [2008 - 511 pages ISBN: 9781905996087]
ALL FOR ANNA
Rosemary Whyte, now in her twenties, loses her parents in a car crash which, after an out-of-body experience, almost kills her too. She is at a dangerously low ebb, both physically and mentally, and her family and friends persuade her to take a long holiday in Spain to convalesce.
There she gets involved with two men – an American country music singer and a Spanish artist. She also befriends the family of housemaid Maria and is bewitched by its youngest member – Anna.
But on a family picnic in the mountains, while Rosie is helping to look after the little girl, the three-year-old tumbles down a ravine and damages her spine. Little Anna is paralysed and cannot move her legs . . . the doctors say nothing can be be done . . . and it’s all Rosie’s fault. That’s when, in desperation, Rosie thinks of FAITH HEALING. [2009 - 313 pages ISBN 9781905996100]
RELAX AND THINK OF AFRICA
Rosemary's father, who runs a charity helping African children, tells her that he is desperate for money to finish a pipeline bringing water from the mountains to a drought-stricken region of the continent. Thousands of lives will be lost if it is not completed. So Rosie enters a dance competition to win a huge cash prize. However others want that money and are prepared to cheat to get it. [2008 - 396 pages ISBN: 9781905996049]
FAMILY LIFE
Fresh out of university and deserted by her long-term boyfriend a miserable Rosemary ponders, as many have before her, what to do with her life. She receives help from some unlikely sources: a 'mute' motorbike courier; her ex-Sunday School teacher; a moody poet; and a guru, Mr D from Delhi. [2008 - 293 pages ISBN: 9781905996032]
COLLEGE STARS
An inside look into the dirty side of British university politics PLUS Rosie’s first term at college. Although she enjoys the discos, the dinners, the drama club and the dishy dates, unlike some of her friends she tries hard to keep up with the coursework. Over lunch in the refectory while talking to one-such student, who claims to have lost his motivation, she tells him: 'You want to know why I work hard? It's two things. Doing a good job at whatever I take on - that's from my Scots dad - and then... well... it's hard to explain but... I have this feeling, deep down, that there's something really important and worthwhile out there for me to do. But I'll only be allowed to attempt it if I'm prepared. Each little task I'm presented with now must be done to the best of my ability or I won't get a crack at that ultimate objective.' 'Which is?' he asks eagerly. 'I don't know.' He sits back. 'This can't be true. I mean... whose plan are you following? Who is controlling...' He stops and mutters: 'Of course... I recall... you go to church. Forget it.'[2008 - 465 pages ISBN: 9781905996056]
THE BODY IN THE BILLIARD ROOM
For young adults
After finishing school and gaining her place at uni’, Rosie spends the summer vacation solving a murder. It’s the good old Sherlock Holmes body in a sealed room mystery all over again. The room is in a mock castle. Rosie and her family are present at a dinner party when it happens. All the guests hear the killing shot. Since the windows and fireplace are sealed and undamaged, and the key is turned in the lock of the door from the inside, the police call the death suicide. But neither Rosie nor the dead man's wife believe it . . . [2006 - 364 pages ISBN: 1905996025]
ROSIE, KATHIE AND THE HAUNTED WOOD
For 8-14 year olds
Rosemary Whyte has seen markings on an ancient map. She thinks it’s a secret tunnel which starts in a wood in the wilds of Surrey. So she and her best friend Kathie go looking for the entrance. But then a local boy tells them it’s well known thereabouts that the wood is haunted – devilish laughter has been heard coming from it late at night. Nevertheless Kathie’s desperate to find the tunnel because she’s convinced it will lead to hidden treasure. But how to dodge the ghosts . . .?
It’s September and the two girls return to their country High School, Mundella, as second-formers. A new games mistress, Miss Murdoch, is in charge of the school hockey team which Kathie captains. This teacher is a tough middle-aged bruiser and soon gains the nickname ‘Old Murder’! Who is going to dictate team tactics? That’s the first of many battles . . . [2009 - 177 pages 18 illus ISBN 9781905996094]
ROSIE, KATHIE AND THE DISAPPEARING BODY
For 8 to 14 year olds
The girls, 11 and 12 years old, are tobogganing on a snowy Christmas Eve. Halfway down a hill their sledge runs into the body of a youth – he’s been stabbed to death. But by the time they return with the police, both snow and body have melted away. [2008 - 275 pages, 23 Illustrations ISBN: 9781905996063]
ROSIE, KATHIE AND THE POT OF GOLD
For 8 to 14 year olds
The pair go on a treasure hunt through the wilds of the Surrey countryside, set, Kathie believes, by a mad monk 5 centuries ago PLUS our two sporty girls start High School and it’s HOCKEY, HOCKEY, HOCKEY! [2006 - 422 pages, 17 illustrations ISBN: 1905996018]
ROSIE MOUSE AND THE WIZARD’S CAVE
For 5-10 year olds
Rosie, a little girl shrunk down to mouse size by a wicked Tree Witch, is living happily and having fun playing games with country mice in a meadow by a wood. Her best friend is Hazel Mouse. The Witch and her boss, the Wood Wizard, are angry. They wanted Rosie Mouse to suffer, not have a good time. But under the laws of the wood they can’t cast any more spells on her for a whole year. So instead they magick Hazel away and imprison her in a cave.
Rosie and Raymond Mouse, Hazel’s cousin, set out to rescue Hazel. Mr Mole tells them that he once, by accident, dug into the cave. But the Wizard’s cave, which is full of gold, jewels and other treasure, is guarded by magic clocks, carpets and . . . monsters! [2009 - 219 pages 238 illus ISBN: 9781905996117]
ROSIE MOUSE
For 5 to 10 year olds
Little 7-year old Rosie is celebrating her birthday on a trip with her friends to a country park. But a witch magics her down to mouse size and frightens her away into the wild wood. Luckily she is wearing the fur coat her gran sent her that morning from Scotland and the animals think she’s a town mouse. Many adventures follow . . . [2006 - 263 pages, 253 illustrations ISBN: 1905996001]
BOOKS PLANNED FOR 2010
THE PARK LANE BANK ROBBERY
It’s a love story about: A VERY ENGLISH BONNIE AND CLYDE.
Raphe hates the banks. His father died of a stroke brought on when the banks foreclosed his business. However, the only job Raphe can get after university is in a merchant bank. Cynthia is an archivist librarian who knows the positions of all the tunnels under London. They meet and fall in love. When Raphe gets sacked, the idea for revenge seems inevitable – break into a bank vault from a tunnel. Rosie? Oh she’s been hired by the Metropolitan Police.
ROSIE MOUSE AND THE HUNGRY DRAGON
For 5-10 year olds
Rosie Mouse is out gathering seeds in the meadow. She sits on a stone to rest, but hears tapping and soon her seat is bouncing around – it’s a dragon egg! When baby hatches out it sees her and calls her ‘mother’. The little dragon is terribly hungry and when a hawk attacks them – it eats it! Rosie Mouse decides to try to take the youngster back to Dragon Land, but first she has to find out where that is. They set out through the wood to visit the local castle, but drunken weasels, bandit stoats, foxes, wolves, even lions and crocodiles try to stop them.
ROSIE, KATHIE AND TRAITOR’S GATE
For 8-14 year olds
Mundella High School Junior girl’s hockey team have just lost a key away game to Croydon Comprehensive, their only rivals for the Surrey County League Shield. Rosemary Whyte, the team physio, saw the opposition Coach smirking knowingly just before the start of the game. The woman clearly knew that Mundella were planning to blitz a goal by pouring attackers and defenders into the opposition half in the first minute. Pre-warned, the Croydon team instantly dropped back to defend in depth and then scored against the depleted Mundella defence with a lightning counter break. After the game, which Mundella lost one nil, Captain Katherine Harrison declares: “We were betrayed!” She vows to find the traitor and punish her.
