Showing posts with label West Yorkshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Yorkshire. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2016

The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote

My debut novel, The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote, was officially released by Bluemoose Books on Thursday 28th July.



Donna Crick-Oakley walks on six inches of stories every day. She may live on the top floor of a tower block but she still pads her walls and floor with books to shut the real world further out. Or do they only shut her in? Armed with her myths and medieval adventures, Donna sets out to escape her isolation and change her home town to better suit her dreams.

THE LESS THAN PERFECT LEGEND OF DONNA CREOSOTE is a modern fairy tale from the inner city, where the mundane becomes fantastical and the everyday ethereal, but where living happily ever after is often easier read than done.


You can order physical copies here, and ebooks here or here. Or, of course, you can buy it from your local bookshop - if they don't currently have any in stock, just ask them to order one in for you. 


Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Welcome to Wednesdays


And the pebbles dance
dance as the little
lad kicks them
and the pigeons
dodge up and
take wing
and the overslept
shuttered-in shops
line the pavement
and the chorus line
traffic comes together
to sing
whilst the mothers
push prams across
askew puddle pavements
and jobseekers walk
by with their
eyes to the ground –

Welcome to Wednesdays
when you’d rather not
be here,

Welcome to Wednesdays
in your nearby hometown.