Out now:
Imagining The Bennets
A novel, an audiobook, an ebook. An eight-part TV series in development.
Imagining The Bennets is an epic prequel to Pride and Prejudice, spanning forty years of romance, hardship, and family saga. Loyal to Austen’s world, it reimagines the untold backstory of Mr and Mrs Bennet with emotional depth and historical richness.
How did a rebellious boy who ran away to sea become the calm, sanguine Mr Bennet? And why did a brilliant, headstrong young woman become the anxious, marriage-obsessed Mrs Bennet? Their journey – full of love, loss, and resilience – reveals what shaped them, and how they raised five extraordinary daughters under the weight of looming penury.
This is a story of who the Bennets might have been – behind the scenes, before the marriages, and before the first line of Austen’s beloved novel.
Listen now on Audible, Apple, Spotify or Google Books, and other platforms.
Upcoming projects:
The Only Son of God
An upcoming screenplay and graphic comic.
Literally the true story of creation. A synergising, paradigm-shifting, blue-sky story, an out-of-the-box, pushing-the-envelope epic, taken to the next level, packed full of actionable events that pivot us, going forward. To do this with impact, we drill down, and the story circles back to unpack the reasoning and puts a new stake in the ground on why there was an only son of god. And thankfully, 1,769 highly impactful daughters. Didn’t he mention that? The universe exists. Thank god for that.
The Host Country
A screenplay.
Will nations refuse to attend the Brisbane Games? The Australian government is under severe international pressure and facing a deadly threat. How do you hold a country to ransom? Not as hard as it sounds.
It's unthinkable to abandon the games, but becoming unthinkable to allow them. The ultimate game has begun.
The Moral Lowground
A novel and in-development TV series.
Three deaths, all accidental. A small terrorist group decide to go seriously kinetic to elevate their demands. Surely there's no link? A female Special Branch officer thinks differently. She’s led to a series of deep-state shenanigans; murders, cover-ups, political denials, intelligence service black ops and millions of GB pounds-worth of city fraud in the markets. She's ostracised, bullied, threatened by her own side, no-one wants to hear that story. She may not win, but also doesn't lose, unlike others, and some pay the ultimate price.
A Hard Reign
A novel and in-development TV series.
A human rights officer with a secret background, Mira, uncovers Islamic State terrorist efforts to attack and kill thousands of innocents after being almost destroyed in Syria and Iraq. An MI6 officer, Cedric, despairs his service is going to the dogs. An SAS officer, Huw, is running an off-the-books operation. Mira and Huw reluctantly are drawn into clandestine service by Cedric, and despite institutional apathy, fight the shape-shifting IS as they commit systematic crimes across Europe. They discover the final attack, true terror, and now the clock is ticking. Mira and Huw didn’t ask to be part of it, but they said yes, and there’s no going back now.