There's a new book on the way! Work has already started on Chiaroscuro, the third thrilling story following the adventures of Guy Miller and the Queen's Wayfarers.  

A book written by Doctor John Dee and hidden away for centuries is found under the Palace of Westminster. It's existence threatens to strike at the roots of modern society. In the wrong hands it's contents could prove explosive.

Guy has a riddle to solve and a dispatch to deliver, against time, against the odds - and against his personal convictions.

chiaroscuro /kɪˌɑːrəˈskʊərəʊ/

noun

The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.

...things are never just black and white.

Book 1 - Overexposed

Guy Miller has a problem. He's just been recruited into an elite organisation whose very existence has been known only to the monarch of the day - and sometimes their prime minister - for the past 450 years. He has been given an ultra top secret dispatch to carry 1500 miles across Europe - the very same Europe that Britain has decided to leave. The contents of his dispatch could change the course of Brexit - and of the world itself. To get home he has to contend with a French secret agent, a mole back in England betraying his every move and a dodgy knee. His only assets are his wits, his camera and a small packet of blister plasters.

Overexposed is the first in the exciting new series featuring the Queen's Wayfarers. Their sole purpose is to hide in plain sight while carrying Britain's most sensitive secrets worldwide. Follow Guy in a thrilling chase from Lisbon to Seville - and beyond...

Book 2 - Sharp Focus

Guy Miller is on a well-earned break in Moscow with his wife, Jane. They don't expect to be swept up in an oligarch's conspiracy against the Russian President which sees Jane held hostage and Guy himself pursued by deadly assassins as he races against time to save her. The Romanovs, the Russian Orthodox Church, sleeper cells, covert spetsnaz forces and the British Royal Family all play a part in this fast paced thriller.

Sharp Focus is the second book in the series featuring the Queen's Wayfarers. Their sole purpose is to hide in plain sight while carrying Britain's most sensitive secrets worldwide. The action in Sharp Focus shifts from Moscow to London and back again in a series of explosive events. This time it's Russia. This time it's personal.

Short trips Book 1 - Twice Shy

"The course of true love never did run smooth..."

Duncan Hood and Isidora Valensa are not out of the woods yet; after their adventures in Sharp Focus, The Queen's Wayfarers Book 2, they found themselves separated by circumstance, with Duncan returning to his duties in England and Isi staying in Russia to recover from her gunshot wounds.

But they have a plan to be together again - if MI6, the Russian secret service, the Israeli Police and a Bosnian Serb sniper don't get in the way first...

This is the first of a new series of Wayfarer Short Trips set in the world of the Queen's Wayfarers that arrived with a bang in Overexposed and continued with the high octane action of Sharp Focus. It can be read as a standalone adventure story or in conjunction with the other stories of the Queen's Wayfarers.

Twice Shy follows the story of Isidora Valensa, Ex-Russian sleeper agent and ex-spetsnaz Mayór, and Duncan Hood, the Head of Safety for the above-top-secret Queen's Wayfarers.

Bill Palmer is an experienced photographer and regular traveller who is based in “Sunny Frimley” in Surrey. He calls himself a"Gentleman Amateur", creating more for enjoyment than for personal gain.

Bill started using Fuji X cameras and lenses seven years ago because they suited his needs better as a travelling photographer; Guy Miller, the hero of the Queen's Wayfarer series, follows the same logic - the only difference is that Guy's cameras have additional, very useful features...

Today, Bill creates under the pseudonym “Lightmancer”. In his daily life he is an experienced and well-travelled entrepreneur and creative innovator; he runs two start-ups and is on the board of a third. He spent thirty years in the big corporate world and he now describes that period as his “apprenticeship”.

He is a published author, award-winning photographer, Liveryman, Rotarian and Freeman of the City of London. Bill practices Tai Chi, speaks a little Italian and messes about occasionally with a bass guitar. He was the driving force behind the original Leica Forum Book raising thousands of pounds for cancer research.

You can find more of his photography on Instagram and his thrillers are sold through Amazon.