I don’t believe it’s possible to paint nature from a photograph...

On the night of 18th February 2011 Alice Warrender, 28, was found sprawled across Fulham Broadway, having been knocked off her bicycle. After major brain surgery she began an indefinite period of recuperation. However she quickly grew tired of being the centre of worry and attention and resolved to walk by herself from Canterbury to Rome. Her narrative of this remarkable journey with its alternations of pain, introspection, peril and comedy, is acutely observant and comes to a moving and uplifting conclusion. 

‘This instructive, amusing, dramatic and bravely candid account is an essential addition to the canon.’ 

John McEwen

Agatha Christie meets Downton Abbey in this delightful new series combines a country house murder with a fascinating insight into the life of a working artist.

In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Rich landowner Alexander, 9th Earl of Greengrass is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end. Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist’s eye for detail and her curious nature she is soon on the scent of the murderer…

'Excellent on the English aristocracy and written in a fine wry style.’

Daily Mail

Flirtatious American blonde, Miss Hailey Dune, should never have accepted a summer weekend invitation to Fontaburn Hall. But when the Honourable Archibald Cooke Wellingham's house party are woken, in the early hours of Sunday morning, it's too late: Miss Dune's blood is on their hands. Enriched with candid observations of the British social classes, insights into the artist's craft, and a strong dose of good humour, The Colours of Murder is a welcome return of Ali Carter's amateur sleuth.

'It's a rare talent that creates a work that is both whip smart, fast paced and at the same time gloriously genteel. Carter is that talent.'

Amanda Prowse

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak, artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as an art tutor at a Scottish country house will prove a distraction. But Susie soon realises she has bigger problems than teaching her eclectic mix of students to draw a Highland cow. Beneath the beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the grandeur of the Auchen Laggan Tosh estate lie hidden secrets. Can Susie work out what exactly is going on before it’s too late? And can anyone be trusted?

'Anyone who has the courage to stage a denouement at Basingstoke Station should not be underestimated.'

James Owen