Bøker av Stuart McPherson

Charley is worried about her archaeologist parents, marooned on a sinking island but she soon finds herself in danger when an antique mirror becomes a gateway to another world. A magical fantasy story as two children are pursued through several different parallel worlds.

Iain lives in the Highlands where a movie is being filmed. He is thrilled to be chosen to play a part alongside well-known twin child stars Carol and Melody. Then odd and unpleasant things start to happen.

Obligate Carnivore is an immaculate introduction to Stuart McPherson's poetry. Painted in the jagged brushstrokes of wounded masculinity and childhood trauma, McPherson excavates new darkness. The haunted images - wolves, corpses, moons and abattoirs - are not only vessels for McPherson's poems, but form part of an internal nightmare logic, creatures of the hell McPherson is trying to escape from. Writing, which as Barthes wrote: "is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin."

Waterbearer is remarkable and irrepressible like an asteroid tearing through the atmosphere, leaving exit wounds. Haunting and haunted, "like snow / for the beautiful dead"