John Flannery: 6 books

This comic novella features an easy-going young Manchester United star striker, Billy Atherton. He craves maturity when he is chosen by a lesbian couple, Sarah and Ellen, to father their child. Sarah Eastwood is a charismatic American nurse who discovers Billy when he arrives at her hospital as an...

An original collection of twelve short stories and two poems dealing with adult themes.

Paddy Murnaghan meets by chance his future wife, Grace on a Saturday night in Cambridge. He is studying Engineering she English Literature. When they meet again he outlines his ambitions for himself and his future family during a punt on the river Cam. Paddy is a self-proclaimed king who wants Grace...

Joshua West is a 25-year-old physics graduate. He has lived the life of a recluse in his parent’s comfortable Cambridge home for two years. Joshua has been influenced by the Japanese phenomenon called Hikikomori whereby thousands of young men have withdrawn from society. Having had plenty...

The charismatic Mancunian television presenter Tommy Armstrong, The King of Saturday Night, is a bad man who wants to get much, much badder by exploring occultism and embracing evil. Suffering from an extreme form of satiated boredom in his plush Chelsea home, he befriends two Satanists who guide...

The long autobiographical essay, "Madness" is the first-hand, darkly comical account of the development and subsequent management of the author’s paranoid schizophrenia. The story, "Next of Kin" is about a local government officer, Ellie Roberts who organises public health funerals...