COMING NEXT: THE WITCH’S COFFIN or CHIPS & CURRY SAUCE or FRED FLINTSTONE’S GRAVE

NO definite title yet, but the hotly anticipated third book in Mike’s popular Cumbride series tells of a doomed, secret passion between the two most unlikely lovers imaginable from his latest novel, Stopping To Rain. It’s the late 1970s and a Scotland is on the march with Ally’s Army but one teenage couple are more wrapped up in each other – until a brutal outrage drives them apart. After hugely contrasting life paths – ranging from homeless hostels in Scotland to the sun-kissed vineyards of Italy – their paths cross again in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

WORK IN PROGRESS: THE CORACLE ORACLE

A BEGUILING tale of love, loss and lizards on the mythical eighth island of the Canaries. Mixing fiction with historical fact, Mike weaves a story of five people thrown together from different backgrounds, places and even times as they battle first for survival and then escape.

WORK IN PROGRESS: MONSTER.

IT’S hunter turned hunted after a ruthless tabloid journalist’s father dies and is named as the killer of two little girls abducted decades earlier. The reporter sets out to clear his dad’s name while facing a bitter cop seeking redemption AND an all too familiar media frenzy.

EARLY STAGES: WHITE NIGHT

A FREAKISH phenomenon convinces an unobtrusive, middle-aged teacher he has been chosen to carry the message of the impending Second Coming to the world. He attempts to spread the word in the face of a cynical public, media ridicule, the wrath of the Vatican…and his own complete lack of faith.