OEUVRE

Fiction and Non-fiction

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FICTION

THE MEDIAURA REVIVAL

It is a sin to ignore your Maker, his mother said. Donnie Florenture had heard the altar call. But a chance encounter in adolescence took him in another direction. When he finally returned to scripture, it was not in the manner his mother had hoped.
The Mediaura Revival traces the fortunes of Donnie Florenture as he tours the evangelical towns of the United States with his mentor, Minister Malvine. Based on the rise of controversial Faith Healers and Televangelists, this coming of age narrative charts the life of one such healer and the wretched lives of those healed. Through the incidental healing of a new born child, the novel becomes an investigation into the epistemology of credulity and circumspection.

FICTION

I is I

After a decade in Warszawa, Poland the honeymoon is over for the English Professor of Film Studies, Lyle Mann. His greatest achievements are behind him and a sense of stasis pervades. As if this were not bad enough, his most promising student is garnering critical praise outside the university. Personal convictions and professional obligations converge when Professor Mann is ordered to attend the annual Warsaw Film Festival with the student in question. After a fateful conversation with a woman at the bar, Professor Mann is surprised to find his position at the University of Warszawa in jeopardy, leading him to take stock of the life thus far lived, and to question whether or not, already in his forties, he has one last hurrah left in him.

FICTION

PROPER NOUNS

A conceptual collection of short stories in which nameless characters bear their archetypal pronouns, these fictions explore the fulcrums that separate the people we became from the people we might have become.
Adultery, resentment, and regret underpin fleeting moments of transcendence.
A retelling of Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’ in contemporary Britain, a much anticipated promotion, an Anglo-germanic household, a view of a neighbour’s garden, a short walk with a stranger, an organ donor and a list, a friend with something to share, a pilgrimage to the tomb of a beloved bard, and a pair of nesting ortolans in the south of France are just a few of the stories published in this collection.

FICTION

SIT, AMMIT, SIT!

A conceptual collection of short stories and vignettes thematically grounded in mortality, the kernel of each short story is either the spectre or one of its multifarious strings, the vibrations of which are felt as pivotal frissons

A young man recounts the story of his birth, a message is read from beyond the grave, and a child is born into a cult.

From adolescence through young adulthood into senescence, the characters of each story attempt to outrun, appropriate, or overcome the only real certainty in life: its ultimate end.

NON-FICTION

FORMATIVE YEARS

Titularly written during the author’s time at university, each critique in this collection analyses some of the finest literature ever written.

From the theory of entropy in modern fiction to the extrapolation of the soul in Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the purpose of each critique is to reinvigorate discussion.
The authors examined include Pynchon, Zamyatin, H.G. Wells, Tennyson, Stevenson, Dante Alighieri, Soyinka, and Dangarembga.

Works published without edits.

NON-FICTION

FEWER WORDS

A collection of essays, opinions, and reviews. Subjects range from all things avian to Pokemon Go. Reviews of authors such as Tartt and Schiff, movies such as The Reader and Interstellar, and works of art by Brueghel and Hebborn. Experiences in the bucolic wilds of Poland, observations from a first-floor studio, and thoughts caught whilst daydreaming feature throughout.

NON-FICTION

WARSAW

A collection of belletristic essays and critiques on Poland’s capital city examines the cultural curiosities, traditions, language, and bucolic milieu.
The essays touch museums such as the National and the Uprising, Monuments of Piłsudski and Baczyński, environs such as Kampinos, Wola Grzybowski, and Biebrza; birds as varied as the Eurasian jay and the Penduline tit, institutions, wars, and ideologies.
A number of book reviews form the nexus of broader ruminations: Bartoszewski, Shore, Zamoyski.All essays are the result of five years’ garnered insight.

‘The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.’

– Moby-Dick by Herman Melville