Books published by Open Pen

Every week Robin''s Halflings do table top battle. And every week he loses. But when the twin who collects Elves announces the club where they play is closing and their weekly games night is on the verge of being lost forever, the seven friends decide to enter the National Masters Tournament and so immortalise the club name in the national rankings. Will Robin overcome his lifelong losing streak and how much is he prepared to risk to lead his Halfling army to victory?

Thirty-five, P is a woman caught between commitment and chaos; about to upend her current stable life to invoke the tumult of her former, addicted one. Or perhaps just walk into the sea. Good Choices explores the ways in which we try to impose narrative on our lives, for the implied audience always judging.

Holly Watson tells the tale of a young girl's experience growing up in Coventry in the 1990's. But Nanny Pam's fallen out with Grandad, mum and dad are skint, and Tom, with his beautifully pointy-spike gelled hair, doesn't seem to notice our girl at all.

Tadhg Muller is the ultimate unreliable narrator. This dark take on autofiction spirals towards madness with the inconsistencies of Muller's plot, whilst maintaining the gravity of what London life is like for an immigrant with no money, no prospects, and never quite enough sense to abandon hope.