Debbie Wastling

This witty, caustic yet compassionate historical novel explores the meeting of two unlikely young people in 1923 – Amos Bell train driver of the Flying Scotsman, and an opera singer, Madame Neil-Gregory.Their Northern erratic love story takes place in...

The 1950s for three Yorkshire sisters who grew up under the same roof but shared little beyond their surname, Bell. Biddy, Dorothy, and Madge could not be more different. Post-war Britain rebuilds; each woman dreams of a future shaped on her own...

THE SUTHERLAND SCANDALS1890The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth,...