Books published by Aderyn Press

Belfast, 2007. Eighty-eight-year-old Michael Doherty lies in an open coffin, listening to those who have come to pay their respects. However, he''s not yet ready to pass over. His granddaughter is the reason. Thirty-something Sarah has inexplicably abandoned her plans to settle in Spain. She is scarred by the Sandstone City and Michael doesn''t understand why - yet it is a city he knows only too well, populated with his own ghosts. The Sandstone City is a novel that questions what happens when we lose ourselves, when we lose those we love and which fragments of the self are worth holding onto.

When Francis House enlists in the British Army in 1907 at 15 years and three months, he is not thinking about war. He imagines he simply wants to earn his stripes - to ease his traumatised father''s Boer War memories, or perhaps to please his favourite sister, Lily, with whom he has always dreamt of adventure. But he soon discovers that simply...