Paul Westmoreland

Tales from Two Centuries

When Captain George Ackworth travels on a stagecoach in North Yorkshire, he and his fellow passengers are attacked by a highwayman and a violent gang who murder the driver and the guard on the coach, before kidnapping two sisters from an aristocratic family leaving the survivors to speculate on why Captain Midnight should have taken them. The appearance of this so-called ‘captain’ is made more forbidding by a black hat, cloak and mask and a “milk-white horse whose appearance had a ghostly presence in the shadows.” It is on this mount that the ...

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Tales from Two Centuries - by Paul Westmoreland This is the fifth novel to be published by this author and, like his previous efforts, there is much to like and admire in his writing. As in previous works, for example, “Raineland” and “Shaped by Memory”, the author has produced a story which conc...

- Nick Lloyd

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‘Shaped by Memory’ – by Paul Westmoreland This is the fourth published novel by Paul Westmoreland and, like its predecessors, is an absorbing and intriguing tale with a compelling narrative. The author is a gifted storyteller and the reader finds himself drawn into the comings and goings (literal...

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The Hiding Place: Paul Westmoreland The Hiding place is Paul Westmoreland’s third published novel. It is a much longer work than his previous two novels but, like them, it has engaging characters, major and minor, but always significant, who weave in and out of a sure-footed plot. The novel cent...

- Nick Lloyd

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The Hiding Place

2^nd March 2022

“It was his safe place. No wonder that he would do anything to protect it.” His island has been, for Mark Atkinson, the inspiration for his life’s work, a saga he calls The Enchanted Circle. His imagination has turned this place into a land of romance and adventure peopled with tableaux from the s...

Christmas Night

30^th January 2020

I first wrote 'Christmas Night' in 1998-99 and then made a few amendments in 2003. Some things mentioned by characters in the story are from those years which led to my giving the final version of the novel in 2019 the subtitle, 'A Tale from the Recent Past.' Though I have been heartened by the s...