FICTION
"The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward is the abstract spirit."
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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I write about people, art and war, resistance and collaboration. Facing uncertainty and challenges, how some discover strengths and weaknesses within complex, at times, harrowing situations. Themes of grief and accumulative PTSD as war progresses, and in the immediate aftermath, become reference points for the fragility but determination of ordinary people. In a time of war some resist, others collaborate, while most observe as bystanders. But is there a price to be paid for having a moral compass?
​If You See Max, Gallery and Out of the Depths are the first three in the 'Framed: Art and War' series . The fourth novel is at the research stage.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS
A novel
!947 - War is over. One man is on a mission to retrieve his art collection stolen by the Nazis. A war-damaged soldier makes a shocking discovery and a gallery owner longs for news of his missing daughter. Later, their fates collide in Moscow.
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GALLERY
A novel in four parts
One story
MS in second draft
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Part One 'UNDER THE ECLIPSE'
was submitted for the
M. Research Creative Writing thesis Awarded 2022
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1940, the Germans are in Paris and begun looting the art collections. A collector, races against time to hide family and artwork before deportation. A curator creates fake catalogues, an artist paints in secret while a photographer treks homeward cross country in the snow with a mysterious companion. Their lives unknowingly entwined.
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IF YOU SEE MAX
A novel
MS edited
The vibrant Crazy Years are over and Paris is under Nazi Occupation. Photographer Max disappears, an art-loving Abwehr major hunts a resistance cell and trains are leaving for Germany with boxes of stolen art. But what are two British intelligence officers looking for? And who is the real Max?
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