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Monday 20 December 2021

Detective Sergeant Maria Bartley, Northumbria Police

Meet some real-life heroes in my series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Detective Sergeant Maria Bartley joined Northumbria Police in 2003 and is no stranger...

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Wednesday 15 December 2021

Jane Rayson, Framwellgate School

Meet some real-life heroes in my series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Jane Rayson is the Deputy Head at Framwellgate School Durham. After realising that...

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Friday 10 December 2021

Millie Stanford, Northern Soul Kitchen

Meet some real-life heroes in my series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Millie Stanford is one of the founders of Northern Soul Kitchen, a pay-as-you-feel...

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Sunday 05 December 2021

Julie Biddlecombe-Brown, Raby Castle

Meet some real-life heroes in my series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Julie Biddlecombe-Brown is the Curator at Raby Castle in County Durham, one of...

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Wednesday 01 December 2021

Tamsin Robson, radio presenter

Meet some real-life heroes in this series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Tamsin Robson was born and bred in the North East, and now works...

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Thursday 25 November 2021

Sarah Ticherou-Bell, Feeding Families

Meet some real-life heroes in my series of special interviews with people who represent the spirit and heart of the North East. Sarah Ticherou-Bell is the Chair of Feeding Families, a food-poverty charity that operates...

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Latest release

The Creek

Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather’s cottage at Frenchman’s Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and little else. Its scattered community of fishermen, farmers, artists and jetsetters barely bat an eyelid, because theirs is a rarefied world, tucked beneath the lush forest that lines the banks of the Helford estuary, deep in the heart of Cornwall, where life is slow and people generally mind their own business. Unless, of course, your grandfather happens to be a pillar of the local community…

Kate’s left the past behind and guards her privacy and her son fiercely. She’s wary of accepting the friendship her new neighbours offer, but their kindness is too great to refuse and she begins to feel she has found her place in the world. That is, until tragedy strikes, and her new friends look to her for the answers…

Kate soon learns that the past always catches up with you, in the end—the question is, will she be able to face it, when it does?

Suspense is peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced mystery, set amidst the spectacular Cornish landscape.