Profile: Michael Allen

Paul Castle is a painter and decorator during weekdays; it is a job he quite likes, especially the banter he has with his partner Septimus Kerfoot, but it is the weekends that he really looks forward to. Because that is when he is ‘Stokesay’ Castle — lead....

Paul Castle is a painter and decorator during weekdays; it is a job he quite likes, especially the banter he has with his partner Septimus Kerfoot, but it is the weekends that he really looks forward to. Because that is when he is ‘Stokesay’ Castle — lead....

Set in 1974 “I Call It Baby” follows the adventures of John ‘Bamber’ Pearson and his fellow members of Red Watch; the best watch on Fairborough Fire Station if not the whole brigade. With Harps in charge they are not only proficient at their job, but thei....

Paul ‘Stokesay’ Castle had loved Helen more than anything in the world. He had even given up the chance to join a top rock band just to be with her. He had loved her as much as any man could love a woman. And how had she repaid him? She had died at the ri....

Set in 1972 the novel “Straight Up!” follows the exploits of twenty year old John Pearson.Fresh from working in a bank it was the mantra, “It will be better once you get on the fire station” that kept him going through the thirteen weeks of being run arou....

The velvet-blue curtains slowly closed on the coffin. Danny shed a tear for his father, Mark Dakin. He had committed suicide at the age of just forty-nine.‘You know who’s responsible for his death don’t yer?’ snapped Zeph Torr, later at the wake.‘No who?’....

Some people think their lives are predestined and there is nothing they can do to change it. For others life is a blank page, the next second yet to be written. Historians chart how major events change the course of history and alter the shape of nations,....

"Brilliant!" "You say that once more and I'll bloody soak you," said Bob 'Alton' Towers. But brilliant was how life was for young fireman, John Pearson. A member of the great Red Watch, doing a job he enjoyed and now going out with Susan Woods, a woman he....