Tim Murgatroyd: 8 books

Tim Murgatroyd’s Poems for Mobiles aim to bring fresh, contemporary poems to a digital device near you. Drunk is a state explored in poems dedicated to the intoxication of life. Whether high on the hard stuff or mourning the dead of wars fading into memory and myth, whether commuting or listening...

Tim Murgatroyd’s Poems for Mobiles aim to bring fresh, contemporary poems to a digital device near you. Apples explores diverse reactions to the floating lives of ‘mobiles’ in our ever-shifting world, from the song of a park fountain to a Holocaust-haunted café in Amsterdam and the transformational...

Tim Murgatroyd’s Poems for Mobiles aim to bring fresh, contemporary poems to a digital device near you. Lullaby ranges over themes as diverse as a new-born baby, a sinister painting by William Blake, night’s tranquillity in the heart of the city and a child’s first sports day at school. The...

Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic soldier idolised by the city he defends, the other a...

Hou-ming, city of ghosts, central China, 1304 - In a vast graveyard created by Mongol slaughter, three children meet amidst the decaying ruins and forge a friendship that will determine their destinies. As the years pass they separate, finding different paths in life. Yun Shu, cruelly rejected by her...

Western China, 1196: Yun Cai, a handsome and adored poet in his youth, is now an old man, exiled to his family estates. All that is left to him are regrets of a growing sense of futility and helplessness and the irritations of his feckless son and shrewish daughter-in-law. But the 'poison dragons' of...

The Netherlands, Spring 1943. When her glittering career as a ballerina is cut short by a dancing injury, Elise Van Thooft-Noman, rebellious daughter of a powerful Dutch Nazi, flees to an isolated island off the coast of Holland. Here she meets Pieter Goedhart, reluctant village schoolmaster and Resistance...

In the middle years of the 22nd century, humanity is dying. It is a time when a genetically-modified elite maintains discipline over humankind by way of murderous airborne drones. These overlordsare utterly ruthless in their desire to exploit the power of science to live forever. When strangers...