(new novel, fourth, in progress, working title) Chapter Three Chiaroscuro It was the visiting hour in Ward 23. The visitors were talking softly. To patient Marwan, the hubbub of their conversations...

Notebook 7 The curve of time Chapter 14 Curves For Selma, the chance meeting with Frank or Frankie on that inauspicious day of cloud and threatened rain was special. She did...

Chapter 7 Night thoughts It was late. Sarah heard a scratching on the window. She checked the front of the house where the holly tree was shaking in a breeze. The...

Hood I fell headlong onto the back seat. They tied my hands behind my back. They had heaved me in, causing bruising to my shins. I felt their hands all over...

Notebook One continued…. Chapter Two Between stone and sand Alert to the immediate threat to his family, Karim turned his back on the field where his flock lay, still and bloodied....

The third novel of a Libyan Trilogy. Presented and serialised in episodes which I call Notebooks. This is the opening of ‘Euhesperides Notebook One’.The image below is of oases in a...

Opening pages of Chapter One ‘Stock Still’ Chapter One  Stock still The panicked ewes were bleating for their lambs. They were corralled in a fenced-off quarter of the military barracks. Carabinieri...

After finishing my first novel, Chameleon in My Garden, I wanted to savour more of the place to which the story belonged. I had fought a campaign for my husband’s release...

by Dr. Bob Donaldson on reading her debut novel Chameleon in My Garden BD: Your writing seems to get stronger as the novel progresses? Would you agree? NN: My first drafts...