An unemployed optimist finds a strange book that leads to unexpected seduction, love, lust and a comic encounter with a cult of alien-worshipping self-improvers. With his rent overdue, unemployed but upbeat Monkey is cast out onto the streets of Leeds. Wandering on the margins of society he finds an odd-looking book as he scavenges for food. Before he can work out how to profit from his discovery he has to escape the designs of a woman in desperate need of his body and finds himself dealing with a bizarre cult of self-improvement gurus with alien connections. And all this whilst trying to...
An unemployed optimist finds a strange book that leads to unexpected seduction, love, lust and a comic encounter with a cult of alien-worshipping self...
The ghost of a drowned boy stalks the dormitories. A crow sits on the desk of Stenton, Master in Charge of Retribution. Dark times have come to St Pius school. Teacher John Carpenter recounts the tale of Henry McGlain whose unexplained death follows an accusation of theft. Before the truth is discovered further bizarre events will disturb the lives of everyone involved. Inventive and richly detailed, Gallicrow is a haunting story about judgement, justice and salvation.
The ghost of a drowned boy stalks the dormitories. A crow sits on the desk of Stenton, Master in Charge of Retribution. Dark times have come to St Piu...
Small-time artist Lex Lathem has problems: his wife has disappeared, two sinister policemen are pursuing him with strange questions and he's fallen in love with the mysterious, green-eyed Kat. And then he finds himself lost in a nightmarish labyrinth that seems to be his own tormented life. Dogged treads a twisted path into the unknown through a world inhabited by grotesques, and low-life heroes. It is a story of the dark side, told with humour and, at times, bafflement by an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
Small-time artist Lex Lathem has problems: his wife has disappeared, two sinister policemen are pursuing him with strange questions and he's fallen in...
A lonely hotel room in a strange town. Sutton and a cold espresso and a gun. He's going to kill someone. He's going to shoot Frank Poole. His father has told him to do it and he must do it. But it's difficult. Because his father was dead when he told him. And Poole has just married Sutton's mother. Evading his abandoned girlfriend, Sutton strives to obey his father's command whilst coming to terms with the fact that the church his father ran was a scam. Sutton's journey takes him from the labyrinthine streets of RoadSide to the Red Daisy Hotel, the dark places of BlackEnd and the hospital of...
A lonely hotel room in a strange town. Sutton and a cold espresso and a gun. He's going to kill someone. He's going to shoot Frank Poole. His father h...
