Henderson’s Spear: A Novel

2001

Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, is writing from a Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family’s buried history for the unknown daughter she gave up at birth. The search for her father, a pilot missing since the Korean War, has brought her to the Polynesian islands in the South Seas and landed her behind bars on a trumped-up murder charge. In the stillness of her cell, Liv ponders the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to these same waters a century before on an extraordinary three-year voyage with Queen Victoria’s grandsons—Prince George (later George V) and his elder brother, Prince Eddy, who would die young and disgraced.

Through unforgettable characters, a mesmerizing story, and a deep understanding of the landscape and culture of the South Seas, Henderson’s Spear explores the patterns of history and the accidents of love.

A Scientific Romance: A Novel

1997

It is 1999, and David Lambert, jilted lover and museum curator, is about to discover the startling news of the return of H. G. Wells’ time machine to London. Motivated by a host of unanswered questions and innate curiosity, Lambert propels himself deep into the next millennium. As he sets foot in the luxuriant but menacing new landscape, he soon begins to explore the ruins of his life, a labyrinth of erotic obsession and remorse involving his old friend Bird, and Anita—the beautiful, eccentric Egyptologist they both loved, mysteriously dead at thirty-two. A Scientific Romance is a book of surpassing creativity and intelligence, as evocative as it is cautionary.