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The Limit – Stories from World War 2
Unlike much war fiction, which focuses on conflict, acts of heroism and extreme suffering, this collection of eleven original stories features the wartime experiences of a small number of ordinary men, women and children and explores the impact of events, both momentous and personal, on their ongoing lives. There are those whose thoughts and actions are conditioned by earlier experiences, as well as those who are still haunted by their memories many years after the end of the conflict. This emphasis on the interplay of time and memory makes for unusual and poignant stories, revealing some universal truths about how human beings cope with the hardship and deprivation of war and how its chance encounters can so deeply affect their lives.
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This Saxon Shore – a historical mystery
Pevensey: autumn 1900. A retired Latin teacher is found dead in strangely disquieting circumstances. His doctor, the young and impetuous Hugh Merridew, calls in Eleanor Bright, the elder sister of his best friend, convinced that she is the only person in England capable of deciphering an intriguing document that he has seen fit to remove from the dead man’s papers. Unable to shed any real light on the matter–and increasingly worried about Hugh’s own emotional state–she calls upon her superior, the eminent historian, Professor Randolph Withey, who relates the death to the mysterious purpose of the Saxon Shore forts and the meaning of history itself.
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Cat among the pigeons – a novel
West Yorkshire 1983. Fred Catterall, once widowed and recently divorced from his second wife, has reluctantly agreed to move into an old people’s home. He finds he has little more than the company of two or three other residents and the memories of his war years as a draughtsman working on Lancaster bombers to take his mind off the bleak prospect of a dreary future. One Monday morning, he has the unexpected visit of an attractive, but disquieting young woman with an unfamiliar accent, who is strangely interested in his past and unaccountably knowledgeable about wartime aircraft production. This surprise encounter sets off a chain of events that will change his life forever
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