If I was a poet I’d immortalise Blaise in verse. Sadly, I’m not. Blaise, however, is. But I can hardly commission her to immortalise herself. It simply wouldn’t work.

So I wrote the book myself.

In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old crofter, Roderick Macrae. There is no question of Macrae’s guilt, but it falls to the country’s most eminent legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to his bloody deeds. Ultimately, the young man’s fate hinges on one key question: is he insane?

From The Bronze Age to recent conflict, Chrys Salt’s new collection explores distillations of memory, moments, lives, experience – the image of a fossil dancing on a rock reminding us of those things that are recorded, yet transient.

The Book of Ways was published by Red Squirrel Press in October 2014. It’s a collection of 112 haibun, a Japanese form for descriptions of real and allegorical journeys, with additional haiku.

Weaving lyricism, choreography, sign language and ethereal music … this play is like a little sister to the late Angela Carter, a fragile, sensitive work of sensuality and haunting beauty with a wonderful cast of three.

Oliver Coggin lives with his chaotic family in Dizzy Perch, a crazy house on top of a mountain somewhere remote in Scotland. With Pa away – on mysterious but exciting scientific research – Oliver keeps the household going. Not that everyone always listens to what he has to say. Or appreciates him. But what does Oliver want himself?

ISBN: 978-0-9558340-6-6 Extracts From Skald Here is a taster of some of the Poems in ‘Skald’ (Koo Press, 2009). Viking Spring This: barley green as grass swaying in gusty May; its clouds of brandished blades. This: ghost-blurs from the coast, hoar-brained crows cawing, haar fingering the halting hearts and limbs of lambs willed to life […]

This is a wonderful little book of stories! It’s full of charm and Britishness and makes me smile and chuckle as I read. At the same time it manages to create suspense, making me genuinely curious how the stories will end – and which philosophical point is in the background of what is happening. I highly recommend it!