Book One Extract

The setting sun, which was visible as a pinkish-orange slice against the ink-stained sky, cast the carved walnut wood panelling in a rosy glow; shadows sprung like monsters from the corners.
Cherry

The Art of Human Sacrifice

The Art of Human Sacrifice

The Lust Girl

Breathless by the river Sadness waved as the skies grew darker i went to my grave all through red october the grass is always green her ghost visited and read my epitaph

Achilles

stumbled and fell, by the pentration of an arrow of desire and love three times it hits him the deadly arrow of desire and love if it ain't his love for helen and his country

Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen

A headstrong young man's foolish and self-destructive approach to a gilded and privileged life.

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The Sweetness of Wrens

A young man's continuing voyage towards maturity, so much of it involving the sea and all things maritime...

Outside the Gates of Sultan

A young seaman encounters tragedy; but also romance and disappointment.

Lost Romance of an Old Pangbournian

A former English public schoolboy goes in search of romance in a coastal town in the 1970s.

The Genesis of a Gentleman

A young man let loose in the changing London in the 1970s...becomes a gentleman.

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