Randolph Stow

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists....

Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilisation and the unpeopled sea....

A killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in all directions....

I want to die. I do not want to be mad.... It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come and attacked the person who lived there....

Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real....

Laid low by a tropical disease and an accompanying malaise, Crispin Clare returns to his ancestral home in East Anglia. Local folklore seeps into his fever dreams....