I did write an autobiography, "Escape from Reality" after returning from Belgium, where I lived for four years. It was written mainly as a means of putting the whole harrowing experience into perspective, and I did not advertise it. On retiring to Staffordshire in 2016, I began looking into the history of the area and found a brilliant website ThePotteries.org, from which I found out about the Pottery Riots of 1842. Finding out that a local nursing home (built by Job Meigh, a prominent potter, in 1937, for his own villa), had been threatened with burning by the rioters, and also that the nursing home has ghosts, I decided to put the two together to produce "Footsteps in the Past". This actually turned into a trilogy. So, I had found my genre, True Historical Novels, and have written eight books now, all based on true events, which I have thoroughly investigated.

"A Llanrwst Christmas, Not Worth Dying For" is another true story. Caroline Williams was accused of murdering her husband on Christmas Day. Saying that they were the only people in the house, Caroline was sentenced to trial. She was known to defend herself from her husband, William, a drunken, lame brute of a man, with her carving knife, when he was drunk, so that went against her, although she had never attacked him with it. She called her knife, "my protection". Her defending lawyer only put forward the flimsiest of cases, mainly, I believe, because Caroline was an illiterate gypsy, living in a condemned house. So, my book is about prejudice and how the legal system pre-judges guilt. The jury had requested mercy, but the Judge donned his lack cap, and sentenced her to hang. I introduced a Cold Case Team to read the crime reports. They bring to light the inconsistencies in the police investigations and trial, and where the case had truly let Caroline down. What I tried to show was that, with Caroline suffering severly with neuritis in her hands, meaning they were burning or freezing and numb and she could just about slice a loaf of bread, there was no way she could have plunged her carving knife so deeply into her husband's neck. However, if Caroline didn't murder her husband, who did? As it happens, there was outrage at the sentence and Caroline's sentence was eventually repealed to life imprisonment, but she should never have been imprisoned as I believe someone else murdered William. You will have to read the book to find out more.