Darlington Press: 9 books

In a story where status means power and survival depends on how the game is played, two people, one a squire wronged in life and one a noblewoman, are drawn together by lust and a lost inheritance in twelfth century England. Guy of Gisborne is a man with secrets, Ysabel of Moncrieff, a naïve and...

The Church – powerful and moneyed. The Heretics – zealous and poor. Lyon – a city that might claim to cast the seeds of reformed thinking upon the world. Guillaume of Anjou, formerly an archer fighting with other Angevins in the Third Crusade, is now the manager of a successful...

A secret story that is tragic and shocking in its scope. A story of revenge, of friendships lost, of love and the cruel machinations of enchanted Others who weave in and out of mortal lives like a needle through fabric. Considered to be a cross between Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and John...

In a world where Others play with mortal lives, in a hidden province that survives on the backs of abducted slaves, Isabella, one of those stolen folk, sends a message woven into rare cloth made of paper and silk, in the vain hope that her cousin will find it, decipher it and rescue her. For...

A tragedy to rival Romeo and Juliet hidden beneath the embroidery of a rare gown. If the writer is discovered, she will be hunted to the death. In a world eerily like our own, where enchanted Others weave through the weft of life, Adelina the Traveller condemns her gaoler to a death...

Once Lady Ysabel Ce Courcey had thought that if she had been a trobairitz, she might have written a song about herself – her courage in the face of adversity that would have had the men and women in any noble hall sighing as they listened. Now, on the eve of the Third Crusade, the denouement...

In this final book of the award-winning The Gisborne Saga, Gisborne, spymaster and valued knight of Richard Lionheart, is forced into a fierce duel in which his wife and son are thrust round the board in a brutal game of revenge. Is it the Knights Templar who seek to avenge their own? Or is...

Byzantium stretches a weakening grip across Eastern Europe, trying in vain to hold onto all that has made it an empire. Tyrian purple, the unique dye that denotes its power, is held under close guard by the imperial house. However a Jewish merchant from Venice has sourced an illegal supply...

Two people … an extraordinary young woman and an embittered immortal man. Both seeking life-shattering magick. In a quest through a world where Others lace their way in and out of the lives of mortals, this is a story of  murder, regret and revenge. 2012 READERS’ FAVOURITE SILVER MEDAL...