The House of the Special Purpose - UK Paperback Noah - UK Paperback Book the-absolutist The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket The Second Child - UK Paperback The Dare - UK Paperback Thief of Time - UK Paperback The Congress of Rough Riders - UK Paperback Crippen - UK Paperback Book The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - UK Book Next of Kin - UK Paperback Book Mutiny on the Bounty - Canada Paperback Book
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    My most recent novel, THE ABSOLUTIST, was published in the UK in May 2011. A new children's book, THE TERRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED TO BARNABY BROCKET, will be published in August 2012.

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  • The Absolutist

    September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family.

    But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage.

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