Andrew Cowan: 8 books

The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting. Andrew...

It's December and there is one foot of snow. Paul, the narrator, is driving east to the seaside in the imaginary company of his son, Euan, whose sixth birthday this would have been. As he drives, and later as he wanders the coast, Paul assembles in detail the fragments of a life that seemed to have...

Set in a 1960s English new town, Your Fault charts one boy’s childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter’s story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimism and futurism of the 1960s, and to reveal how that utopianism fares as it...

Are all curates chumps? Certainly that would seem to be the case here. Add into the mix a loony bishop; an imperious huntswoman; a criminally-inclined prep. school headmaster together with his flatulent staff; a frivolous, partying vamp, her verbally incontinent butler and a bible-quoting vicar’s...

In this collection of short stories we meet several new characters from the author’s fictional village of Linton Musgrove. Jerry Harrison, a writer of crime fiction, and his girlfriend, Emmeline Cargill, are recent arrivals in Linton Musgrove who appear in five of the stories. Oliver Melluish,...

Sunlight of Ordinary Days is a poetry anthology like no other. It is a record of the creative explorations of twelve accomplished poets under the tutelage of eight esteemed poets, teachers and advocates of literature in Western Australia. In this short anthology, a range of styles, voices and subject...

How do the three persons of the Trinity relate to each other? Evangelicals continue to wrestle with this complex issue and its implications for our understanding of men's and women’s roles in both the home and the church. Challenging feminist theologies that view the Trinity as a model for...

Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage. During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies.  Well over 300 Scottish Highland...