This is the story of two characters in a small town in Wales who only meet once, with shocking consequences.

The past isn't necessarily done with.

Back in the early 1970's, three ten-year old friends go up town to cause trouble.

A new lighthouse keeper receives a mysterious visitor.

Jael tells what really happened when her husband Heber's old mate Sisera dropped in. Not quite what you read in the Song of Deborah.

A fairy tale for adults and older children, in which a tailor meets a very large cat, and tries to sell her some clothes.

Terrible things happen down by the river: it is a place of despair where humans do their worst to each other. Yet it is also a place where ghosts can be laid to rest. In this story, originally published in Umber (2011), the voices of a bereaved 60 year old woman, a teenage boy who’s lost his way in life and a murdered Viking are woven into a dark story of revenge and tragedy.

Providence is a collection of three short memoirs. The stories reveal a mother haunted by the loss of her family. Her child becomes a woman, shaped by the loss of her ancestors, deepened by the compassion for the suffering she witnessed and the resilience that grew from it.