Of Darkness and Light

This first novel is a story of horror, both physical and psychological, a taut and vivid slide into panic, set in a Glasgow whose darker side is vividly rendered. The book is illustrated by broodingly suggestive drawings.

Literature & Fiction

Graham, Barry

Literary

BLOOMSBURY

The Champion's New Clothes

Contemporary

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

<p>Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1995, this Scottish novel takes a savagely uncompromising and unsentimental look at the true nature of love and friendship in a city that, like its troubled characters, has lost all its old certainties.Kevin Previn returns to his native Glasgow after an absence of ten years, his homecoming prompted by the death of a friend and mentor, junkie writer Mike Illingworth, author of The Book of Man. Previn believes he's trawling the streets of Glasgow in order to make sense of his old friend's troubled life and death - but he's on a personal journey, a quest to understand his own childhood brutalities and lost loves. Past and present become one as Previn discovers what he has really left behind.</p>

The Book of Man

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Barry Graham's terse and resonant poems of urban Zen have been internationally published in anthologies and magazines and broadcast on BBC radio. This, however, is the first book-length collection of his poetry.  This volume brings together his best poems of two decades, ranging from haiku and tanka to love poems and murder ballads.

Traffic and Murder: Poems

Poetry

<p>A MYSTERY PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Laura Ponto wouldn't mind watching Frank del Rio being strapped to the executioner's gurney, even if her job is to find mitigating evidence in death penalty cases. Frank's not a client, but a long time ago he did unspeakable things to children—and Laura was one of them. Now Frank is being released on parole, and they will both learn that their lives are still intertwined. Their story will end in a place even darker than it began in a shattering noir novel of suspense, sex, violence, love and death in the urban desert of Phoenix, Arizona.</p>

When It All Comes Down to Dust (Phoenix Noir)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

"I'm there when it gets dark to kill you if I can..." The Bogey Man's sinister chant used to scare the wits out of Gary Scott when he was a five-year-old, growing up in the worst part of Glasgow. But now, nearly twenty years later, he's an experienced, and he likes to think, hard-nosed journalist. He's far too preoccupied with real life in all its seedy variety to worry about imaginary horrors. So why does he keep being drawn back to the dark closes and crumbling tower blocks of Maryhill? As one bizarre and grisly event succeeds another, as the deaths begin to pile up, Gary realizes that he himself is, somehow, inextricably involved. Then, one night, the Bogey Man arrives under his window. Of Darkness and Light is an elegant story of horror both physical and psychological, a taut and vivid slide into panic.              

Genre Fiction

If Truffaut or Godard or Ozu wrote novels instead of making films, Before is the book that might have resulted.Francoise was "improbably lovely," the type of character you see in movies. Of course, her life was a life, not a movie. But as the narrator, Barry (a writer who may or may not be the author), stunned by the news of her death, tells "her" story, he cannot find the reality of his friend in the dark, romantic film that flickers in his mind. As he searches for Francoise in a nightmare cityscape of desperate sex and casual violence, he finds only reflections of his own loss.In haunting, cinematic prose, Before examines the impermanence of human connection and probes the arcane links between seemingly unrelated experiences.

Before

      One for My Baby is a neo-noir tale of crime, sex and free enterprise in the contemporary American Dream. Like many Americans nowadays, Mark Sharpton has had to take a second job to make ends meet. When not performing as a lounge musician, he commits armed robberies. It's all crime all the time in Phoenix, Arizona. When Mark robs a joint owned by a retired mobster, a witness gets a look at his face. Then he falls in obsessive lust with her, and the mob and the cops team up to get rid of him, aided by the husband of one of his casual sex partners... 

One for My Baby (Desert Noir)

Erotica

In this searing collection of stories, people try in various ways to escape the violence and depravity of urban Scotland. A brutalized child rescues his sister in the only way he can imagine. An alienated, drug-addicted boxer fights to live and then lives to fight. A family man slashes faces for money. Lovers, killers, the desperate and the mad search for meaning, or someone to hold, or something to eat, in some of the meanest streets ever rendered in fiction.

Get Out as Early As You Can

"Food on the plate, tea in the cup--say your thanks. Say it to the sunlight, say it to the rain." Barry Graham's second book of poetry may be read as a collection of haiku and tanka, or as one long Zen poem.

Love and Rain: Poems of the Way

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Of Darkness and Light

The Champion's New Clothes

The Book of Man

Traffic and Murder: Poems

When It All Comes Down to Dust (Phoenix Noir)

Of Darkness and Light

Before

One for My Baby (Desert Noir)

Get Out as Early As You Can

Love and Rain: Poems of the Way