Stuart Ayris

• Jan-2022
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The austere, mediaeval village of Small Mercy is a place where function is all. There is no colour, no joy. Nobody dares even to dream lest they suffer the consequences of indulging in so unproductive an act.One bleak night, a stranger, John Dawlish,...

• Dec-2016
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Henry John Bateman is a hospital porter. He drinks too much alcohol, does too much cocaine and has been married too many times.

Yet somehow, he discovers, beneath the staples of an old map, a small piece of land owned by no man, no lord, no...

• Feb-2016
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This is the story of how I - Rossi Innocenti - left this red earth in a hot-air balloon made entirely of orange roses. With me were a seven-foot-tall Hell's Angel, a one-hundred-and-twenty-three-year-old man and a boy whose feet were on backwards. Al...

• Jun-2015
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It has long been an established fact that to pass successfully from childhood into adulthood, all you have to do is find yourself a rabbit-hole and jump straight on in. Lewis Carrol even wrote a book about the process. A mad book but a great one. But...

• Jun-2014
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Hello, the moon and the stars...

Edward Jarvis Huggins is a ten year old boy brought up in a shack in eighteenth century England, his father an alcoholic, his mother dead. Fleeing their father, Edward and his sister find themselves in Kent, o...

• Oct-2013
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"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to the coastal area of Sabah..." That's the exact area of Borneo to which I was travelling. It couldn't be that bad. I'd have a tour guide and a driver with me. It's just ju...

• May-2013
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The final book in the FRUGALITY TRILOGY. So just how do you get over finding someone hanging in the shower? Some people have counselling. Others perhaps never get over it at all. Me? Well I drank myself into dreamworld for fifteen years and wrote a t...

• Jul-2012
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Although this novel is the second part of a Trilogy, it can still be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone work.

The fact that Rod Langford achieved classification as a midget by just half an inch did not sit well with him. It did not sit well wi...

• Jan-2012
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"To my mind, and I'm a pretty tough critic, he's the best writer of his generation. Bar none."

Cally Phillips (Director of the Edinburgh eBook Festival)

Winner of the 2012 IBB Best Overall Book Award

Winner of the 2012 IBB Best P...