Student Rhetoric:

A collection of interlocking short stories based around the death of the effervescent Daniel, at the end of Freshers' Week at university. Each narrator has a motive for his killing as Daniel encourages his fellow students to open up new thoughts and feelings that they may not understand or like.

A book about escaping the constrains of existence and the strengths of the ideas that tie us to who we are.

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Rehabilitation:

A man wakes up in a strange room with only a phone and a Manet painting for company. He does not who he is, how he got there or what he is supposed to do.
Instead of trying to find his old self, he creates a new personality based on his simple surroundings but then a reminder of his previous life returns, showing that there are some things can never be forgotten.

A short story about the nature of existence, and our capacity to change in a repressive world

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The Choices of Richard Faust:

A gifted guitarist sells his soul to the devil for the possibility of acceptance, popularity and sexual gratification. He has twenty four hours to experience the pleasures of a purely material life before he is able to change his mind. What will he decide to do?

A novella about searching for transcendence in a world where God is dead and values are meaningless.

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Tales from the Kerb:

Tired of lazing around in the same boring pub in leafy Surrey suburbia 12 disparate characters decide to embark on a mission of change. To not do the first thing that comes into their head, not the second thing, but to come up with a third. To come up with a kind of transcendental drinking Nirvana where the highlight of the night is something other than winning the pub peanut throwing contest or getting a wink from the bargirl ten years their junior.

This takes them to the home of the Krays, the penthouse bar of the Hilton and the only Tequila bar in Mayfair as they circumnavigate the pubs of London through a breathless haze of bright neon lights, minor celebrities, brushes with the law, drugs in Westminster and expensive rounds of drinks in what could have been and maybe was, the ultimate night out.

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