Fiction built from ordinary rooms.
A camera shop. A kettle on the hob. A Saturday morning routine.
In each, something is quietly out of true.
Give them a page to stare at and they held themselves like soldiers. Take the page away, apparently, and something older and less disciplined took over instead.
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Books
Five collections of quiet fiction.
Ordinary rooms. Familiar routines. People carrying on with their lives. And then something shifts.
Kindle editions £1.99 each.
What Time Keeps
Six stories about the things we keep when the world around us changes — watches, habits, memories, and older ways of doing things.
Analogue Watch in a Digital World · The Watchmaker's Daughter · Not Ruined · Countersign · Compliance · Wearing Thin
The Patient Unease
Six stories about the quiet feeling that something isn’t quite right — in houses, workplaces, villages, and ordinary Sunday routines.
The House That Remembers · The Listener · VRML · Since 1555 · Algorithm · Fifty-Two Sundays
Masquerade of Chance
Five stories about luck, games, and the uncertain rules people make for themselves and each other.
Level Up · East End Girls · Holding the Dice · Envelope · The Puppy of Baker Street
The Cloisterham Mystery
Dickens’s unfinished mystery, reimagined in a Victorian England of brass, clockwork and fog.