Voyage of the Skara Brae and other tales

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  • ISBN 9781836150183
  • Weight: 480g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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A sailing adventure novella, followed by five short stories. The Voyage of the Skara Brae - how do you ever know what a relationship is, until it is over? Two people brought together by fate to sail through the Indian Ocean are overtaken by events they could never have imagined. Starting with an unwanted evening's invitation to a charity celebration in London, leads New Zealander Ronnie Campbell to join a divorcee undertaking a journey that will have fatal consequences. In the novella. the reader follows the turmoil, excitement and danger that Ronnie will experience in a year he will never forget.

Followed by five short stories to accompany the sailing novella, in a spread of fiction;

Bringing Home the Bacon - an art-theft mystery set in Oxford

Julian's Last Mission - MI6 espionage, set in London and Italy

The Hut - a ghost story set in Norway's chilling winter

Yard's End - a man in chaos is hounded through the early morning fog

A Day to Remember - a nurse's bittersweet return to Yorkshire after the Great War

Roderick Groundes-Peace was born in Edinburgh, before his family moved south to Oxfordshire, where his father had been appointed the village doctor. Coming from a family of writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Roderick has always wanted to follow his forebears' path. A marketing professional for more than thirty years, he lives with his wife in North Buckinghamshire.