Category Archives: Strange and Fantastical

ELIZA HENRY-JONES – Salt and Skin

A photographer concerned with documenting the visible evidence  of climate change lands on a small island in Northern Europe with her two teenage children. In the first few moments of her landing she witnesses and records a terrible tragedy. Then the house they are given to live in is full of strange markings from the past, carved into the wood of the beams. A novel of changing social mores tangled with superstitions from the past.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023

PHILLIP BERRIE – The Changeling Detective

It’s one thing to work as a private detective wearing a disguise- but what if you can completely change your form and face at will? Phillip Berrie’s protagonist thinks he is unique , a ‘mutant’, but in investigating another case suddenly finds out a confronting truth about his possible origins and the source of his ‘superpower’.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Conflux 2023

MEG GRACE : Supermums – and so it Begins!

International Women’s Day has just passed and it occurs to me that all women who are mothers or not possess Superpowers! This fun account of women who suddenly gain a portal to a parallel world – in the backyard, that grants wishes – need I go on! Needless to say, with Superpower comes Super Responsibility!

Meg Grace – The Read

Meg Grace – The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022