Welcome to this website. Most of my productive time these days is spent writing books. I write the type of books I like to read. My first three books are historical thrillers set in the sixteenth century and featuring the adventures of William Constable – a physician and scholar. The fourth in the series is now a work in progress, after a short diversion while I wrote a novel based at the end of the First World War.
The books have picked up a couple of awards and are published by Sharpe Books.
I’m also a leader and member of a couple of local writing groups. Writers can feel isolated, and I find the interaction with fellow writers helps with ideas, critiques and much-needed encouragement to keep on writing through the period when words won’t flow. It’s fun, helps to improve my writing and I get some great ideas.
Most of the Blog posts on this website are either written by other authors or are about the publications and writing of other authors. The same applies to the Short Fiction section, where the majority of the posts are from author friends.
More about my Books
“A gripping and evocative page-turner that vibrantly brings Elizabeth’s London to life.”
“Full of convincing characters both historical and imagined … a worthy successor to A State of Treason.”
“Walker skilfully creates a treacherous world of half-truths, plots and duplicity… simmering with impending danger.”
Latest Blog Posts
Annie’s Day
A warm welcome to Apple Gidley and her new book, Annie’s Day. In this post, Apple also considers how authors react to reviews. Annie’s Dayby Apple Gidley Published November 2025 / 300 pages Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/mZJq05 Vine Leaves Press Paperback Buy Link: https://shorturl.at/cUXbU War took everything. Love never had a chance. Until now. As…
Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman
Can she outwit her enemies, protect her family, and claim her destiny in a world where women are pawns and survival is a game of deadly consequences? This is the true story of the last of the Elizabethans, which ends the story of the Tudor dynasty – and introduces their successors, the Stuarts. Universal Buy…
The Wartime Trans-Siberian Railway
By Deborah Swift Chiune Sugihara and family with two German soldiers on the steps of Japanisches Generalkonsulat, the Japanese consulate in Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Germany, 1941 Originally black and white photograph colorized Julius Jääskeläinen. Visas for Life Among the most extraordinary stories linked to the Trans-Siberian escape route was that of Jewish refugees aided by Chiune Sugihara, the…