Liah S Thorley - Author
Biography
Hi all, so here's the bit where I have to talk about myself.
I was a dancer and actor from being old enough to step out onto a stage until 2009 when I decided to concentrate on writing. Perhaps not the easiest choice as a dyslexic, but there you go.
I studied performing arts at the Italia Conti Academy and have a degree in (this has to be the longest degree title in the world) The History of Art, Architecture, and Design with Applied English Language and Linguistics (see what I mean) from Kingston University. I have a Masters in Early Modern History from the University of Reading. I was co-founder and treasurer of Abingdon Writers Group in Oxfordshire from 2009 to 2017, and am now a member of Scarborough Writers Circle.
I love to travel and have spent considerable time in Italy, Australia, the USA, and Malta, where I taught acting and accents. I now live in the seaside town of Scarborough in the UK, where I run dark tales and heritage walking tours. As well as writing fiction I am a freelance travel writer, published in various places. My fiction varies from the vampiric and supernatural to the more regular historical drama and romance. I am also half of the Deadly Night Tales creepy fiction YouTube channel. One of my acting teachers used to say I had a grasshopper mind, I guess she was right!
Historial Ficton Novels
Time travel romance with a huge dollop of adventure
"Page turning stuff from this exciting author, inventive, mesmerising and unputdownable" -
Gabrielle Aquilina
All Catherine wants is a happy home, and a contented life,
but time is a playful thing.
To her family, Catherine is lost in time, lost to her friends and lost to the 21st century. To her, she is a young Tudor woman with a new husband, a business to run and no memory of who she really is. But Catherine’s life is about to change forever and perhaps for the better.
More than half a millennium in her future is Michael, a professor of physics with a secret he finds hard to live with. Guilt and sorrow dominate his search for the daughter he accidentally sent back in time when she was only six years old. Each occasion Michael attempts to find her, Catherine is dragged through time, placing her into some of the most frightening and harrowing points in English history.
Through her journal, Catherine tells us her heart-wrenching story of love, loss and adventure covering three centuries.
Michael’s determination to find his missing child and bring her back to the time in which she was born is understandable and admirable, but is he destroying his daughter's life?
click here for a sample.
An inspiring historical family drama
Experience the journey to 19th-century Australia with this colourful family drama. Full of pioneering spirit, romance, mystery, and adventure.
Emma's life has never been easy, but with her convict husband transported to Australia, the last seven years have been the hardest of all. Now Jacob's sentence is at an end and she is faced with a new challenge.
Little could she know that deciding to join Jacob in the 'new world' would only be the beginning of an epic journey, physically and emotionally. Riddled with guilt at leaving behind her sixteen-year-old son, Jack, Emma's heart is put through the proverbial mangle even further when she meets a mysterious school teacher, Mr Finch.
click here for a sample
Deadly Night Tales - creepy fiction YouTube channel
