Category: creative writing
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COVER REVEAL – ALL WE CANNOT LEAVE BEHIND

With a few weeks to go until the official publication date of February 28th, I am delighted to reveal the cover of my new novel, ‘All We Cannot Leave Behind.’ The book is available to pre-order in paperback now from Waterstones, Amazon, WH Smith, all the usual online booksellers and your local bookshop. Description: Edinburgh,…
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REVENGE

Looking down on the busy street below, he watched the tourists gather under the café umbrellas. He resented their presence – the noise, the litter – but most of all their happiness. Happiness had always been denied to him, stuck in his small corner room. Today was the day he would gain his revenge against…
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COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

Bells rang out across the city, calling worshippers to service. She stumbled against the wire fence and rested herself there. Broken windows, graffiti, crumbling brickwork – all that was left of the home where she had grown up. She remembered again the nuns, the Father, the other children. She remembered the discipline, the beatings, the…
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THE COLLECTOR

I love to collect all sorts of things – badges, stamps, books, tacky souvenirs, even clothes and shoes. If I see something I like, I have to have it. With the cost of living crisis and losing my job, I can’t afford to buy all the nice things anymore, but when I see something I…
