Ashton Pickering Publications: 3 books

When Alison Thompson becomes Chair of Governors at her sons’ school six months into her first curacy, she knows it’s a lot to take on. She’s in a busy parish, newly separated from her husband, and the school is about to undergo an inspection. But Alison likes a challenge, and the Inspector in...

Messiahs Don’t Fly Michael Turner wants to be a priest. Whether he achieves this desire depends on how he sorts out his relationships with three key women: Jenny, his GP wife, Nan, the priest who is his mentor, and Alison, the troubled ordinand who threatens to destroy them all.  David St John...

Alison Thompson would have been thrown out of her curacy after having an affair if her new bishop, Christopher Ridgefield, hadn’t remembered his own lapse as a curate and given her another chance. When he appoints her as a vicar, she’s determined to do the job well and repay his faith. At...