The CollectorRead an excerpt
The life of a Newcastle art collector, told through the diary he kept in 2017.
Books in progress
Patterns of Life and Death: Movements Through Invisible SoundRead an excerpt
Written in three registers, The Known, The Speculative and The Quiet Witness, across five threads.
NINE: An OriginRead an excerpt
For four hundred years the Nine have been at work on human beings, and the cats have always known first. A story of cats, angels and the keepers who live between them.
Dark Star: A Family PortraitIn development
A life told in three parts, San, Gui and Elo, each opened by a photograph and an epigraph, moving between family history, landscape and memory in layered, image-led prose.
Maverick ScienceIn development
Hidden architecture of the body and mind. Essays on ideas that have no institutional home yet: Hall’s Neural Imprint Syndrome and mirror neurons, mirror neuron therapy for under-resourced communities, and the parallel architecture of the tarot and the Bible. Science practised outside the building.
The Tales of Owl and BunyipIllustrating
A dreaming child, as a Southern Boobook owl, travels one night through the Jenolan Caves and the Blue Mountains. Each creature Owl meets teaches it something, and Owl gives something back in kind.
Family history
Letters from the Past
My great-great-uncle John David Hall, the Boer War and the Great War, and the letters between his brothers that the family kept.
Published here
The Thousand Ruby Galaxy
Messages from a vast library at the edge of the universe draw the narrator into a love story running from Alexander’s march through the Punjab to the Eureka Stockade and the streets of Newcastle. Published here with the author’s permission.