My latest short story A Reconciliation of Trolls will be published in the Crumps Barn Studio anthology Home Ground on 27th January – a collaboration between paint and the printed word, featuring the work of artist Alison Vickery. Exhibition runs 27 Jan – 23 Feb.

It’s a cautionary tale about the perils of not reading the small print: its unfortunate narrator purchases a house not realising that the ‘migration route’ mentioned in the deeds refers not to birds… but to Trolls.

It’s the latest in an ongoing series, all set in the same anonymous, vaguely European city, a dusty and careworn place. The perfect place for stories that are usually wry, offbeat and containing mild peril. And frequently Trolls. Previous pieces have involved African explorers, eternal Fog and cursed paintings. Cargo was published by Fictive Dream.

I have three more stories in production involving a convention of professional lookalikes, some fanatical gourmets in pursuit of a mysterious (and potentially deadly) chef, and a modern-day Simon Stylites.