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Overview: Life has been enriched by living 18 years in other countries, nine of which were in the Philippines where my wife and I were doing community development work with a tribal people on Mindoro Island. My two books, ‘Smoking the Mango Trees’ and ‘Beyond Coral Shores’ feature that period.
My home in the UK since 1976 has been Scotland where I still live and run a tour business: www.roamingscotland.com with the distinctive of taking people on good walks to see the real Scotland away from the kerbside and tourist hotspots. As a keen hill walker, I wrote ‘A Clearing of the Mists’ which traces my life and spiritual journey with reference to various hills. The wonder of creation is a recurrent feature in my books.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 Chosen Wanderers
Chosen Wanderers is the first book in the Z-Rod series: a gripping saga set in the upheavals of Pictish Scotland in the 6th century. At the initiation of two princes preparing one to rule the tribe, a mysterious power symbol, the Z-Rod, is tattooed on one, unleashing uncontrollable consequences.
Tribal power struggles are further intensified when two Irish saints arrive whose vibrant faith and daring spirit, preserving them through the Scottish wilds, demonstrates to capricious warlords and their powerful druids, an alternative worldview of reconciliation and hope.
Straddling these two worlds is a mysterious bard with prophetic abilities. His revelation has little relevance initially, but later becomes the lifeline to recover a seemingly lost destiny. What significance does the Z-Rod and ‘bearing fire to the north’ have on an exile, and how will anything be achieved amidst poverty and obscurity?
02 Heirs of Promise
Heirs of Promise, the second part in the gripping Z-Rod trilogy set in 6th century Scotland, intriguingly contrasts the lives of Pictish cousins striving to establish themselves – one as warlord, the other as a spiritual warrior.
Styling himself on the boar, Oengus uses power and wily intelligence in a bid for independence from his overlord under the gathering gloom of war. Other shadows disturb: his ousted cousin, who bears the powerful ‘Z-rod’, still haunts; unrequited love for the inaccessible Alpia, consumes; and influential druids question his commitment to the volatile mother goddess.
Abbot Fillan prophetically directs the exiled Taran to remake himself as a warrior-saint by acquiring nine graces. Propelled on an ominously named ‘white martyrdom’, Taran is tested by a series of quests and friendships to find his soul companion in his ultimate aim of ‘bearing fire to the north’.
03 Fire-Bearers
Fire-Bearers’, is the much anticipated climatic conclusion to the intriguing Z-Rod epic set in 6th century Scotland. Alongside the increasingly divergent lives of the two main protagonists are the well-crafted characters who shape the outcomes of momentous events. We are brought to the brink, identifying with their experiences of strife and war, faith and heartfelt longings, wondering if they will succeed in their goals. Can the many obstacles to love be removed for the characters who briefly held hands at the very beginning of the trilogy? Does King Brude come to acknowledge a greater King? Can a treacherous cousin ever be forgiven? And what of the prophecy that the humble hero will ‘return east with great peace?
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