The sky was gold streaks and white streaks, an expensive look, stormy. Diagonals ruled. Under the streaks came blue woodland in bar shapes, sliced up by firebreaks. Somewhere there my brother Ray lived."

As Rivers Flow

Assumin'," she adds between kisses, "you will be lookin' your best as we get outta here. I don't want us goin' someplace and you arrivin' like a flower."

Call It Tender

Father said he would put his kettle on. Shuffling to the kitchen he picked up the phone. Put it down. Came back and sat down; wondered why no water boiled."

As Rivers Flow

Miss Heidi said I could write in my diary Miss Heidi introduced me to sex, there was a broom cupboard on the third floor and we were to go there straight away and we did."

The Most Serene Republic

Your time roaming is over, no more wild praries, no lullaby in the bushes not far from Kenwood, no viola in the corner."

even the butterfly must endure the storm

this good-natured novel"

Times Literary Supplement

Heron and Quin

Little concerned at having seen a murder in Victoria Station, Heron and Quin, 'two gentlemen of imponderable worth' in need of a roof, food and affection, trudge north to visit Dorrie. In their rivalry for her favours Quin, thinking he must prove his worth, sets out to find them food. He adventures from pub to bench, to contemplate the end of twilight. A fitful night at Dorrie's follows.

Heron and Quin was published by Aidan Ellis