Books
Five novels and a book of stories, in the order they were written. Every one of them opens here — click a cover and read the first pages before you decide.
The Weathering
A land surveyor comes home to an eroding headland and finds her mother’s house drawn on a council map with the year it ends.
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Nine Days of Rain
Two brothers, one flooded valley, and a week that neither of them will ever describe the same way again.
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The Glasshouse Winter
A father counts the panes of his wife’s glasshouse through the coldest winter on record, and his daughter carries the paraffin.
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Small Hours
Eleven stories set between midnight and six, in hospitals, harbours, night buses and the kitchens of people who cannot sleep.
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Ostler
Her debut: a boy, a ruined horse, and a grandfather who understood that the hardest work is doing nothing, on purpose, for a long time.
Read the openingFive novels and a book of stories. One coast, seventeen winters of clay, and the people who stay.