Alandra Varinia Saunderson is the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Lloyd and Seamus O'Rafferty, both of whom worked for the IRA and both of whom are dead.

Alandra works in a bank in Camberwell for the manager, who is a dirty old man. She spends her spare time trying to trace the whereabouts of her half-siblings. As the book progresses we become ever more aware of Alandra's retrograde personality, inherited from her mother.

This book is funny and tragic by turns, and describes the extremely eventful life of a thuggish but likeable young woman.

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Alandra Varinia: Seed of Sarah was originally published by Merlin Books in 1994. 

This book introduces Natalie Klein as an amoral hearse-driver and follows her friendship with aspiring Prime Minister Jack Maguire.

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Natalie has a perverse fascination for the dead. Maguire, on the other hand, is consumed by ambition and a desire to become Prime Minister. Maguire’s motto, “My face shall appear on the banknotes and my profile will be engraved on the coins” says it all. Natalie goes out of her way to help him become Prime Minister, in return for his kindness towards her, but only by devious means, which are an anathema to him. The story reaches a climax when their paths cross and they fall out.

Professor Isaac Stone arrives at the Rudyard Kipling hospital to see a mysterious patient called Esmeralda Harris – who has suffered a nervous breakdown after witnessing a shocking event. Eleanor Berry keeps the reader guessing as she teases out the story and what it is that Esmeralda saw that was so distressing.

We then meet a delightful raconteur called Charlie Yates, whose anecdotes will enthrall the reader. Come Sweet Sexton, Tend My Grave comes to a sinister and tragic climax at the end when Esmeralda and Charlie are united under disastrous circumstances…

We follow the life of Natalie Klein, fearless predator in the name of lust, as she attempts to entrap her prey in her tangled web, causing scandal from the hairdressers of Mayfair to the consulting rooms of Harley Street.
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Natalie sets her sights on at least on the psychiatrist Ted Curruthers. His professional, structured life is thoroughly upended by her relentless pursuit. But does she succeed...?

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The book also sees the return of the Professor Isaac Stone. The dashing doctor with the short temper and a tongue like an adder. 

This is the continuing lurid story of Natalie Klein and her eccentric collection of associates, namely the clergyman next door, who can’t stand any noise and whose children turn to crime and drugs, the Frenchman who knocks out the clergyman’s two front teeth, the twin brothers who fight in the hall, while Natalie pops amphetamines and talks at length about Russian literature when she is doing so, and her sister, Hilary, who goes to great lengths to stop her taking amphetamines.

In Too Much Bloody Noise we meet more unforgettable characters through the clergyman, such as the Rocker who never uses the definite article, and who can’t stop making rock ‘n’ roll movements as he talks; the beauty the clergyman falls in love with; and her foul-tempered, crazy Irish undertaker father, McManus, who tries to bring him into the business.

In the continuing tales of Natalie Klein, our heroine is prevailed upon to help a friend in need, whose son is in a poor state and has not yet made peace with his late father who lies in The Valley of the Blessed in Israel.

We follow Natalie to Israel with the mother and son, and then back to her London life as a medical secretary in the capital’s largest hospital. Along the way we meet the various characters such as Natalie’s appalling colleague who tries to get her sacked, her vindictive boss and a secretary who challenges her – but what will be Natalie’s revenge?

However, these are just precursors to Natalie’s final act of devastating revenge against the printer who plagued her father’s newspaper, whom she spies at a crowded fancy dress party in Hampstead dressed up as Hitler…

Set in 2054 after two nuclear holocausts. A year when The News of the World, printed in subterranean Fleet Street One, is sold with complimentary radiation-proof black rubber mackintoshes.

Highgate Cemetery is visited by survivors seeking the vault of Rex Malone and his family, now a national shrine. Malone had changed his name. He was a former Czechoslovakian peasant and war hero who had made his fortune in post-war Britain. He was a publisher, reckless speculator and philanthropist. (Maxwell died mysteriously at sea in November 1991.)

At the same time, on a Scottish isle, two prison warders discuss one of their charges, 101-year-old Natalie Klein who is doing life for a sordid and mysteriously motivated murder, committed before her life was linked with the Malones. 

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Note: This version was written under the pseudonym: Eleanor Beckman and was published before the Maxwell Mirror Pension Funds scandal.

A humorous account of Eleanor Berry's relationship with Robert Maxwell and her response to his death. First published in 1996 with the title: Robert Maxwell As I Knew Him. 

The book was later expanded and re-released under the title My Unique Relationship with Robert Maxwell: The Truth at Last (2019).

Here we see the benevolent, unknown side of Robert Maxwell. He was a surrogate father to Eleanor on a platonic basis. He saved her life by charging into an operating theatre (not scrubbed up) and shouting, 'turn that f****** machine off'! He was referring to the deadly E.C.T (electroconvulsive therapy) now banned, which she did not need.

Maxwell was always kind and generous to Eleanor although he and her newspaper baron father were very jealous of each other. The Gutter press have only informed us about Maxwell's faults, but Eleanor is proud to have been his friend.  

An eccentric and darkly humorous autobiography by Eleanor Berry that recounts her surreal upbringing within British press royalty. As the daughter of Lord Hartwell, the powerful owner of The Daily Telegraph, she was born into immense privilege but consistently chose a highly rebellious and non-conformist path. Against her parents' explicit wishes, she joined the Communist Party and moved to Moscow completely alone at the age of seventeen, where she taught herself fluent Russian.

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In a twist that caused immense friction at home, she befriended larger-than-life media tycoon Robert Maxwell, her father's chief industry rival, and became an intimate fixture in the Maxwell household. True to her signature gallows humour, the memoir is filled with bizarre personal anecdotes, from her childhood obsession with attending funerals and gruesome court trials to watching Winston Churchill’s funeral procession from the newspaper's offices. Ultimately, the book functions as a series of witty vignettes that expose the absurdities of elite mid-century journalism while offering a deeply personal look at an incredibly uncommon life.