Clive Barker

Ramsey Campbell

Margaret Murphy

Paul Farley

Brian Patten

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Beryl Bainbridge

James Friel

Dinesh Allirajah

Tracy Aston

A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale… A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver… A bricklayer working on the foundations of a never-built cathedral becomes its evangelist, its full splendour soaring only in his mind… Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set against key historical moments from the Second World War to the Capital of Culture year, these stories question what ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ mean in the Liverpudlian context, from the regenerated city centre to satellite suburbs, from the sparring cathedrals to the no-go concrete housing estates. Liverpool emerges in these short stories as a city in constant flux: haunted by ghosts, buoyed up by myths, and shifting with an ebb and flow like the Mersey itself. "A literary gem that will share a niche in my library with M.R. James and E. F. Benson..." - Metapsychology online Read review. "Words thrive here, carried on the saline breeze of the Mersey and twisted round agile tongues into sentences as resilient as the sandstone blocks in the Town Hall walls..." - The Liverpool Daily Post, 11 Jul 08 Read review.

The Book of Liverpool

"A lifelong liaison between two eccentric writers who live across the world from one another unfolds over decades in a novel that pays homage to nineteenth-century master Henry James" --

The Posthumous Affair

The Higher Realm is an intense psychological drama and a suspenseful murder mystery that deftly draws the reader along. Sidney Chisholm discovers the five bodies of his neighbours, the Gilhooley sisters. They have been dead for some weeks. In a complex series of twists and turns, their mystery becomes the catalyst for unravelling the truth behind the unexplained disappearance of Sidney's young daughter, Tina, some fifteen years before. The Higher Realm is both uplifting and terrifying, and at times deeply claustrophobic in its portrayal of betrayal, compassion, trust, and sexual and emotional abuse.

The Higher Realm

James Friel

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