Chris Leicester: 5 books

'Going For The Wire' is a collection of three stories of escape. Its author, Chris Leicester says: ‘It’s what we all want to do sometimes - break free. These people do.’‘Alien Baby’, features a little boy escaping a cold and heartless home life with his imagination and a new friend,...

Yvonne is 45. She’s bitter, blunt, hurt, angry, lonely; funny. She’s had an interesting life. She’s killed her step mother. She’s been in prison for the last 12 years. Two days ago she gave birth for the first time. Now she’s on the run from the police and a media crusade. We join her as...

Wise old professor Joe Raymond walks on to stage and addresses us. He tells us about Stanislavsky's Fourth Wall, and how actors use this imaginary barrier to keep out their fear of the audience, but as this story unfolds, we see the actors have fragile barriers in their real lives too. When notorious...

cumulonimbus, cb's, "charlie bangers"; what pilots affectionately call thunderstorm clouds. the dangerous fusion of warm air and moisture, colossal, unstoppable; spent only when their fury is done.adrian is convinced that his recently deceased father is reincarnated in his new born baby son,and...

Focussing on the political unrest of the 21st century, Hurricane Hill is a fast-paced novel, which examines the bond between soldiers on the battlefield and the effects that going to war has on an individual’s mentality. Hurricane Hill centres on the moral dilemma: Which life is more valuable; that...