Michael’s new novel, The Erkeley Shadows, is now available from Amazon, under the Swan Village Reporter imprint. The paperback and Kindle versions can be ordered here. The novel is also available from Foyles, Waterstones and related outlets.

The Erkeley Shadows – a journey through actions and consequences.
1967. The Summer of Love. Not for Jonathan Parry, perhaps, but certainly a time of big change. Soon his family will emigrate to Canada.  But he, at least, won’t be leaving the old country wholly behind.  In his heart he carries a dreadful secret, and its consequences track him like an implacable assassin from teenage to manhood, from the Canadian Prairies to the Maritime Provinces and back.  What he endures could fill a book – and does.  His life-story finds its way into the hands of Will Apland, an officer with the Saskatoon police force.  Initially, Will treats it as a diversion, something to while away a Hallowe’en weekend alone.  But, almost imperceptibly, Jonathan’s tale begins to infect his thoughts – one man’s history rubs up against another’s.  So it is that, by the time he reaches the final page, Will is a man transformed.  For him, this strange tale has become a call to arms, an exhortation to seek vengeance – or worse.