“[Wreckage] is a really remarkable piece of work. In the foreground is a caper story; in the background, a poetically expressed, apocalyptic history of Liverpool.” —The Daily TelegraphThat woman with the grey hair and the specs and the kind face and the accent all like his grandmother, his nain i...
Chased by a hit-man, a young man returns home from London to a small town in Wales. Reconciliation with his family is alternated with his pursuer's progress. A long criminal connection is revealed but can he escape the sins of his fathers? This is a tense, tightly written drama that will captivat...
On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle. The boy is an innocent, a spiritual savant; his ...
For myself, I tinkered with the preceding stories in an internet caff off the Magnificent Mile in central Chicago. This is no more than coincidence of course – we’re jobbing writers, and we go wherever the job takes us – but, being a writer, and thus given to a quasi-pareidolic interpretation of ...