Myra King: 3 books

Being bullied for the colour of her skin is the least of fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown’s problems. Velvet was born with a terrifying second sight. She ‘sees’ the crazies, the psychopaths, those monsters sliding among us, hidden behind normal-looking faces. There’s a double murder in her...

An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games, the effects of war on those left behind, the vagaries of heterosexual and lesbian love, self-abortion, and murder, told through characters as diverse as a retired Light Horseman, a lighthouse keeper’s...

Half-caste is what the bullies call her, like she isn’t complete, but the taunts are the least of Velvet Brown’s problems. A disloyal friend, a long distance romance which is no longer working, a crazy colt  that has to be ridden and a hidden threat which is slowly being revealed, pose far greater...