‘Where is Provender?’ said Cynthia Gleed, and sighed, knowing full well the answer. Not here. >Read More<

[In this excerpt, thirteen-year-old Gregory Brazier makes an unhappy discovery. Belonging to a bloodline of proud pyrokinetics, he finds his own superhuman powers are very different to those of the rest of his family.] >Read More<

[In this excerpt from the ‘Kim’ half of my palindromic double-novella, the eponymous antiheroine Kim finds herself embroiled in a clash between two rival groups of music fanatics…] >Read More<

(The peaceful festivities of the town of Downbourne are shattered by the arrival of some very nasty interlopers.) >Read More<

When Nora stepped out into my headlights there was no way I could avoid her. The front bumper embraced her legs and she jack-knifed flat over the bonnet, arms outstretched, face to the windscreen, staring at me through the glass, looking me straight in the eye. >Read More<

(Parry and his lieutenant, Pål Johansen, begin their investigations into the strange deaths of a Siren and a Foreigner.) >Read More<

It was another merely magnificent Monday in the life of William Ian North. >Read More<

(In this extract, our store detective hero, Frank Hubble, starts work and gets his first glimpse that day of a potential shoplifter.) >Read More<

(This extra chapter is a stand-alone short story that is also tied directly into the continuity of the novel.)

Mel Hobbes met and fell in love with Joe Portside on his very first night waiting tables at the Neptune’s Trident. >Read More<