The Human Thread
History, Memory and Meaning
Novels and essays about how history and human behaviour shape the world we live in.
My novels weave real people and events with imagined lives, exploring not only what happened but what it may have felt like to live through it.
My essays draw on history, philosophy, politics, and culture, reflecting on how ideas formed long ago continue to shape the present.
At the heart of both is what I call The Human Thread.
This describes the connections that carry memory and experience across time, reminding us how lives once lived still echo in the world we inhabit today.
Novels
Stories of people navigating the forces that shape their lives.
Set against the bleak industrial landscape of Dowlais, this is a story of resilience and triumph. Orphaned and sent to London as a scullery maid, Eliza Turner’s art becomes her means of survival — and a voice for social reform.
Christmas, 1896. At Dolwyddelan Castle in North Wales, a medieval codex challenges the accepted history between Wales and England and draws Professor Owain Morgan into his first case — one where truth hides not in evidence, but in motive, silence, and fear.
Essays
Reflections on history, psychology, and power.
Is History Ever Objective?
What does it mean to say history is objective? E. H. Carr posed the question in 1961. It remains unsettled.
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Big Ideas that Shape Our Thinking
A series on philosophy and the thinkers who shaped how we understand reason, belief, and what it means to be human, so relevant today.
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Democracy for Sale
The growing unease about the stability of Western democracies and how money and digital amplification influences voters.
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