Tom Dalton: 5 books

I'm Immortal till I die, is a 'teen diary' that explores the many different situations, emotions, conflicts and problems that every teenager can go through. It is written through a non-gender specific character and as such can be read and related to by any gender group. It is written...

This is a small book that contains a series of short stories and verses that explore a range of themes, including loss, grief, loneliness and discrimination. It was collected while the author was working with young people who were experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. The aim of these...

In an industry where it costs a billion dollars to bring a new pharmaceutical drug to market the pressure to cut corners and manipulate information is always present. Adding to this is the inherent human weakness of greed when large amounts of money are at stake. Tommy Lee Jessup has over the years...

Three-and-a-half-year-old Michael Murphy is a pain in the ass. He sure shouldn’t be invited to any more weddings; last one he kicked the man his mother married in the shins. All he does is piss and moan, and he won't eat anything his mother cooks. For the life of him, he can’t understand...

How do you write a novel? Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among...