
I’m happy* to announce that my latest novel ‘The Great Calamity’ is now available in ebook format from the places listed below, and that a paperback version is working its way through the Amazon publishing labyrinth and should be available before too long.
This book is a bit different from my others but during the writing process it became more of a mystery and much less of a historical what-if story! I hope it will be an enjoyable and possibly unexpected read.
Big thanks to my son Alex for designing a dramatic cover.
* slightly afraid of what readers will make of it!
LINKS
Here’s a list of links to places where you can purchase a copy:
Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDY7P4PS
(the number at the end is the same for all Amazon stores)
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1606986
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id6655288017
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/2940167727557
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Search?Query=9798215650660
Everand: https://www.everand.com/search?query=9798215650660
BLURB
In mid-19th century Britain, a catastrophic accident occurs from which ripples will spread throughout Europe and beyond.
Twenty years later, a writer doing research into the tragedy is murdered in London, a cabinet-maker dies in a workshop accident in Leith, Scotland, and a former journalist is run over by a horse-drawn omnibus. The writer’s daughter sets off for Scotland, where she and the cabinet-maker’s son try to work out the connection between the deaths of their fathers and seek an explanation for them.
The search for answers leads them in unexpected directions and to places neither of them would have imagined they might visit.


Oh that sounds exciting! I do love that cover. I’ve been looking forward to reading this one!
Thanks – I hope the story lives up to the cover – I asked my son for something dramatic as I can’t do that kind of thing myself.
The first book I’ve tagged “alternate history” in my Calibre library – really looking forward to it!
I hope you’ll enjoy it. It was tricky to write but eventually things fell into place (I think!) – though I realised while writing that you might find some aspects of it annoying.