It's almost beyond me to attempt to encapsulate the emotions I felt when I read Life Beyond The Limit other than, if you want to do yourself a favour, buy it and it read it because it is this good ? Chloe Newman, author

I have never read a story as unique, brilliant and unforgettable as Life On The Limit and I doubt I ever will ? Mary Parks, author

Life On The Limit is simply marvellous ? John Walker, author

If you wrote the 1958 Formula One racing season as a movie script, few would believe it. Life On The Limit tells a story like no other.

This is a fictionalised account of that dramatic season, but it's more about people than cars. Mike Hawthorn, naturally fast but suffering from health problems while haunted by many other demons. Luigi Musso, a proud Roman of aristocratic background, who's naivety would cause him great trouble. The ever-cheerful Peter Collins, who wasn't at the same level as his team mates but wasn't introspective enough to realise this. Fiamma Breschi, Luigi's girlfriend who knows more about cars than he does. Maria Teresa de Filippis, Luigi's ex-girlfriend and the first woman to race in Formula One ? she was 12 laps shy of becoming a legend.

Writing a novel didn't cross my mind until relatively recently, when I went to the local library and couldn't find a book that interested me. That led me consider a new pastime. Write a book. That book may never be published, but I felt my follow-up cross-cultural crime with romance hybrid set in Russia had more potential. So much so that I wrote a sequel that took those characters on a journey to a very dark place.

Once those books were published and garnered good reviews I wrote in a very different place and time, and my two novels set in Victorian Britain and published in July and August of 2014. I followed those up with various novels set in various places at various times, with the most recent being a story set in the Syrian Civil War.