Advised by her Melbourne doctor to ‘find a place in the sun’, 22 year old Gail Mitchell travels to the oasis city of Belleville in the Victorian Great Southern Desert. 

September 2008 Newsletter of International PEN, Melbourne

‘It is from a place of emotional stability that we will accept the notion of equality of dignity for all men and women.’ 
Switching on the Light. Spectrum Publication 2002.

Tools of War, a mystery story inspired by actual events, takes place in World War 2 in Melbourne, Australia. Anne Preston, a naïve teenager employed in a laboratory that is critical to the production of tools of war, becomes embroiled in the espionage and intrigue which successfully sabotages this branch of the war effort.