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The Bone Mill

"9 out of 10" The Book Belles, Radio Stoke

"Grisly, chilling and great stuff" The New Writer

"Bought it.  Read it. Loved it."  J Francis Hudson, author of Rabshakeh, and Hadassah

The Potteries, 1829.  It’s a harsh world and nowhere is it harsher than at the Bone Mill.  This is where animal bones are ground down to make into fine china.  It’s a stinking world of fetid carcases, clanking machinery and tough men. This is Joseph Ryder’s world.  A teenage orphan, Joseph ekes out a hand-to-mouth living one step ahead of the workhouse, spending his few extra coppers trying to contact his dead mother through his landlady and medium, Gerda. When his foreman Sewell offers him a chance to earn a few extra shillings, Joseph jumps at the chance and soon finds himself dragged into a deadly sideline business involving the House of Recovery and the slimy local anatomist, Mr. Furness. But not everybody is as they seem and Joseph soon finds himself embroiled in a life of crime from which there seems to be no escape. Click here to buy a copy directly from the publisher And if you enjoy it, let other people know - mid-list authors and small publishers deserve your support It's also incorrectly listed on Amazon as The Bonemill (all one word).  You can buy it from there too.  Click here

For more details on my other books, please click on the relevant title

Foul Deeds series of books - these are compendiums (or should that be compendia?) of crimes committed in the dim and distant past by people sometimes dim and occasionally distant.

Adult Education - the book that people new to adult education love, but the academics love to hate (because it's understandable and practical).  Learning to Teach Adults - An Introduction is the most useful book that anyone who has never taught before and is about to teach adults could usefully buy - and my mother agrees.

Books on writing I'd like to think that these were essential to any budding writer's collection of how-to books.  But then I would, wouldn't I?  Books on writing non-fiction and your own life story are but a click away.

Escape from the Rat Race   My first book is, alas, out -of-print in this country, although  I have a few copies still available and there is an English version available from India  .

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