Writing

Complete Collection

Funny Buggers

This is my third collection of stories.

As the title suggests, these tales - certainly the folks in them - don't quite fit in with normal society.

So, what's to anticipate?

There's Conversion where a vagrant tries to avoid an unwanted change; The Last Train to Oblivion, which involves a supermarket trolley race through man's prehistory; The Seizure - a preparatory lecture on having one's body taken by the state; Short Cut - a story about an unexpected journey; and Read R For Refugee - well, reading is a spectator event, surely?

Five new stories. Coming soon! as they say.

Play Fight (a novel)

We pass them every day. Industrial Estates.

Boring places of grimy work. Grimy places of boring work. Industrial Estates.

There's not a murder but an accident. A chisel in the head and a severed arm. Ripples of a power struggle shear the day-to-day charm of Tommy's units and workshops. Fault lines of history rock as mysteries unfold.

We're warned there's no such thing as a play fight. But to win, one must play, and to play means to fight.

The Manifest (a novel)

A whole academy chain of staff and children are welcomed aboard The Dreamtime, a luxury liner cruising an idyllic chain of Pacific Islands.

What could go wrong when a former member of staff waves his magic wand to conjure reality from the extraordinary?

You Who Too (a novel)

A writer offers advice to his niece on her space opera novel and explains how he became embroiled in a conspiracy theory.

A frontside seat to the fall and resurrection of an impoverished dreamer.

Violence, betrayal and lashings of incredulity come as standard.