A student becomes obsessed with a mysterious song said to kill anyone who listens to it, a journalist recalls his disastrous friendship with punk band Colin Crab and the Ptomaines, and two men wait nervously on a lonely mountain pass for the Muslim potentate they must stab to death. Ranging from the South Pacific to Siberia, Rome and London, and from the Dark Ages to the present, the twelve short stories collected here explore themes of memory, desire, fear and the creative imagination. My short-story collection Singing a Man to Death was published by Cinnamon Press in 2012, and shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award. Read an extract here.

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"An excellent display of how great short stories can be ... original, fresh, poetic and sophisticated, but above all else, intensely enjoyable." (Liam Nolan, gwales.com)

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"Inventiveness and gorgeous, grotesque nostalgia." (Liz Lochhead, PN Review)

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"A truly staggering breadth of settings and influences .... A prose style that is at once spare and energetic, and an impressive eye for detail makes his new collection an enchanting read." (Paul Cooper, Wales Online)

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"Notable for its range, sophistication and readability ... A strong collection" (Christopher Meredith)