Books published by Troubador Publishing

Following the release of 'My Wellness Toolbox' in August 2018 I started Talking Tools with You, sharing 26 of the powerful tools that helped me manage and overcome crippling anxiety and build a more positive mindset.

Peace International is a global reconciliation and mediation charity that seeks to prevent wars, regional disputes and rebuild civil societies. When a tip comes in that Iran is building a biological weapons research and production centre, it becomes clear that where they're considering building could destabilise the Gulf region.

Starting at Zero is about Freddie who got the wakeup call to start embracing life after watching his father die. He went from stressed, overworked, depressed to Guinness World Record holder, running 200 miles across the Sahara Desert, Ironman, the first person to run a lockdown ultramarathon and diving with great white sharks.

The second in a series of novels taking its main characters through the Second World War. Set during the Finnish Winter War (1939-1940), events mostly unknown outside of Finland.

'Fa-ra-ra boom-de-ay!' is a captivating tale of escape, fantasy, adventure and achievement through the eyes of 8 year old soon to be flower girl Farrah Frett - all culminating in a spectacular reveal!

It is the last decade of the eventful 17th Century. It is also a period of constant war between William, the King of England and the French Sun King, Louis XlV, a situation half-French Philip Devalle finds trying as his loyalties are constantly divided. Weary of war and politics, Philip has a new plan.

Judy Simons thought to leave her grandchildren a legacy of reminiscences about her Jewish upbringing in 1950s Sheffield. But when her mother died shortly before her hundredth birthday, Judy discovered a treasure chest of papers hidden at the back of the wardrobe. Reading them, she realised she had unearthed a gripping family saga.

In the middle of the last century, in a small remote town lost in the foothills of the magnificent Caucasus Mountains, the local children raid their neighbours' fruit orchards during the summer holidays. The best apples for Pasha, the nine-year old boy, are behind the impenetrable fence of the Glumins and in the orchard of a wicked neighbour.

Death! The children of the three witches of Bideford who were hanged in 1682 have vowed to kill all those people responsible for their parent's deaths and their own murder by hanging based on trumped-up charges to cover up the crime of their local judge.

From letters to real life: Invisible Ink is a powerful portrait of love and marriage between a gay man and a refugee, poignantly told by their daughter. Ralph is a brilliant, poor, gay Jew from the East End. Edith, also Jewish, is a tender-hearted but resilient pianist from Central Europe.

An entertaining and witty memoir from an author who has had a long and interesting life. The author has insightful views on a wide and diverse range of subjects such as what a possible side effect might be to the cure for malaria and why the UK population might be getting progressively more stupid.

The Lodge unveils the mystery of a hunting lodge in the remote hills of the Scottish Highlands during the Christmas holidays. After the report of an accidental death at the lodge, Andrew, a young constable from the nearest town, drives up through a growing blizzard.

This book does not fit into an identified genre. I like to call it a geographical/historical saga as each chapter is based on an artefact, place or event which occurred near to Loch Broom in Wester Ross.

A Reddish Sky is a reflection of love lost, unrequited and fulfilled. Pain and joy with historical example, plus the reminisce to those who we have found and loved, lost of left. Distant friends and some who seem to sometimes, still appear daily in fine nuance and soul.

Hannah and Soraya are in the business of making rock music with a social conscience. The way Britain currently works, that means they're 'snowflakes'. They've learned to live with the mudslinging, but not happily. Worse than that, it's starting to overwhelm them. Then, out of the blue, they suffer a string of personal and professional crises.

It has been two years since Nicholas lost his wife. Still bereft he decides to take a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes, hoping that the break will help him in his recovery. Whilst there he takes a day trip to the tiny island of Halki. On the ferry he meets Alessandra, who is working as a researcher at the museum on Rhodes.

Usati is a four year old growing up in Sunnyvale, a small, poor and remote sugar cane farming village in Trinidad in the 1940's. He describes the world he sees, and captures the language and culture of the mainly illiterate peasant workers who live around him.

Vince is an accomplished liar and undercover Special Branch agent. Truth, for him, is the story we tell. Sworn to his country, committed to his work, he takes on a new mission - masquerading as an Islamic convert to infiltrate a British Jihadi group.

Luck is the story of Daniel - a man born with the gift of being able to influence others. He learns thathe can both charm as well as destroy. As his ability grows, so does his craving for acceptance.

On a cold December Sunday, book-seller Jack Carter struggles through the ritual of making breakfast for his wife Eva, whose dementia confines her body to her bed and her mind to a world of its own.

At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into John's therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn't slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain.

January 1918: Franz Becker, a high-scoring, decorated ace, rejoins his fighter squadron in Flanders. He has been fighting since October 1914, and is suffering badly from the strain of war. Imperial Germany is almost finished, strangled by the Allied blockade, its people starving.

A bomb goes off at the Tobacco Market, London. John Chase, ex-Fusilier and Red Marine, is wrongly arrested. Along with Burns, a union official who has confessed to the bombing, he is taken to The Warrior, a prison hulk moored on the Thames. Discovering that he and Burns are to be murdered, Chase manages to escape to the safe confines of the Warren.