History, Memory, and the Human Thread

I was born and raised in a South Wales mining village and spent more than forty years in the fast-moving world of business and technology. These days I live quietly in Snowdonia, writing stories that reconnect me with the people and places history often leaves behind.

I write not as a professional historian, but as someone trying to see more clearly — to piece together fragments from the past, ask better questions, and reflect on what still echoes today.

My work is mostly fictional, but grounded in fact. I don’t invent history to fit the needs of a story. Instead, I begin with the truth of what was — and imagine the lives that might have been lived within it.

I’ve always been drawn to the hidden corners of the past — not the battles and treaties, but the daily lives lived quietly behind them. The ironworker rising before dawn. The girl in the coke yard. The silent grief of a mother burying her child. These are the stories that never made many headlines, but they shaped the world all the same.

Unseen Souls is my first novel. Set in 19th-century South Wales and London, it follows the life of Eliza Turner — a young girl forged by poverty and fire, who finds her voice through art. Though fictional, her story is stitched together from real places, real events, and the emotional truths left behind by lives like hers. Read more here

This website is a space to continue that exploration — to dig deeper into the lives, landscapes, and tensions that shaped Britain.