Serial: Beaks Bloody Part 1 (2026)
The Roost Coaching Inn spanned most of the bridge at a point where the Winter River divided two large expanses of forest in the Northern Territory.
The traveller climbed down from the coach and watched the horses drag the dilapidated heap beyond the screen of trees before hauling his own heavy carcass to the inn’s oddly uninviting doorway.
He tried the handle, which was stiff and refused to turn.
‘You can’t get in that way.’
Novella: Bad Apples (2023)
Prologue
Dimple had suspected that something bad would happen sooner or later...but this? This was beyond belief.
The cottage window exploded in a shower of glass, firing the tufted mass across the garden like a rogue cannonball. Sprouting a pair of little furry legs in midair, Baby Bear hit the ground running and didn’t stop until he’d reached the screen of trees that marked the fringe of the forest.
Novella: The Shinbone Shadowhunter (2024)
It was midnight in Shinbone and a fine rain peppered the streets, disturbing the pale reflection of the crescent moon in puddles the size of lakes and gently soaking the crowds of drunks that gathered in tavern doorways all over town.
In an ancient study at the top of a rickety house on the edge of one of the oldest streets in the rich district, Fulbert Fairwhack removed his spectacles and pinched the bridge of his nose as he strained to examine the document on the candlelit table before him. He’d been concentrating on it for the best part of an hour, pausing only once to usher away three large and exceedingly ugly birds that had landed on his windowsill.