Busy Author

I’ve been busy promoting my fifth novel, “Island of Regrets” (https://www.createspace.com/3952232 ). Its blurb says: “Stolen diamonds are missing; a fortune is at stake and evidence concealed for more than a hundred years points to a location on a lonely mist shrouded dot of land in the Southern Ocean. Unravelling a puzzle leads four treasure hunters on a search that could become homicidal.”

That dot of land is Sub Antarctic Campbell Island which I visited in 1985. The island is still a series of clear pictures in my mind. One thing I remember as if it happened yesterday, is the ship’s departure. A few members of the weather station staff accompanied the GMV Wairua out into Perseverance Harbour in a rowboat. One member stood in it playing a mournful tune on the bagpipes. It was like being on a misty loch in highlands of Scotland – not that I’ve been there, so it was just an impression.

I’m also busy putting the finishing touches to my next novel, “Green Expectations”. I wrote it back in 1999 and have just picked it up again. In the story, environmentalists and developers go head to head over the future of Mathews Bush, a fictional area of native forest. The personal stakes are high.

I hope to publish it next year.