Alan Mccluskey: 7 books

It wasn’t Brent’s fault if he was stuck in the form of Jake the Owl, at least he didn’t think it was as he sat on a branch preening despondently. The threads of all his stories had become inextricably muddled in his owlish head. To think that he’d once prided himself on being a storyteller....

The quiet town of Avan with its port, its provincial university and its conservative seafaring folk would hardly be the place you'd expect to run into an adventure and frankly neither Brent nor Sally nor Keira were going out of their way to have one. At least nothing more than the occasional torrid...

Annie Wight, a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl, wasn’t looking for either love or notoriety when she got swept up in 'London Whatever', a grassroots movement offering support and healthcare to gay girls and women. In the struggle to end violence against women, she stumbled on the love of her life...

A weekend of joyous festivities! Such was the Theosophy department's response to a group of fanatics bent on destroying their reputation and having them shut down. Theosophy? Professor Rafter, head of the department, calls it "the study of our direct relationship with that which is beyond and...

For twelve years Sam has been imprisoned in his head, unable to express his wild ideas or anything else for that matter. Then Sami appears. Outward-going and articulate, she gets on well with everybody. The catch? Sam and Sami are a chimera; genetically distinct parts of the same person. Sam’s dad...

If you listen carefully you can just hear the mournful tolling of a convent bell over the shuffle of girls' feet as they traipse to Mass, nursing bruises and a numbing despair. No one cares. No one is there to stem the torrent of injustice and abuse. They are lost and forgotten. In another world,...

When Peter awakes in the head of a girl, he is both delighted and alarmed that his secret yearnings have become reality. Very quickly, however, his error is apparent; this girl is not him. Kaitling –that’s her name– is twelve years old, like him. She’s the daughter of a magician, a prominent...