It had been a shitty day at school. 18-year-old Tim Masterson had just gotten home when he heard girlish giggling coming from the other side of the hedgerow that screened off the pool area. He stopped to listen, picking up several female voices, although he couldn't hear what was being said, just the laughter.His curiosity peaked. He quick stepped down the row and around the corner to the back door of the pool house. As he entered, he noticed that the French doors that lead to the ...

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020.These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" - Ti...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about.Henry Normal was born in St Annes, Nottingham, in 1956. He now lives in Brighton with his wife the screenwriter Angela Pell, and their son Johnny. Henry performs poetry at literature festivals around the UK, was recently given a Honorary Doctorate of letters by...

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers.First published by Five Leaves in 2016, Staring Directly at the Eclipse is revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan...

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020.These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" -...

A daemon is offering me the name of my parent’s killer, for a price.I’ve spent my life hunting the daemon who killed my parents. I swore long ago to do anything necessary, including summoning the deadly creatures to hunt for clues, even knowing I walked a razor’s edge every time. Any one of them might turn on me and kill me too.When Azimuth, a sweet-talking daemon with ice-blue eyes and a voice like butter, shows up dangling the knowledge I seek in return f...

Greed. Power. Sin.It all comes with the gavel.Blurs the lines between church and state.But the Knightdale Charter of the Satan's Knights MC is my life.And I'd do anything for this club.Like letting the best woman I ever had slip through my fingertips.A sinfully beautiful spitfire, she's my better half in every way.My twin flame. My everything.My biggest regret.But there's no making things right between us.Becau...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Saskia Sinclair was almost famous once. A pop hit in 2006, a brief stint on a soap, and a scandalous affair with a footballer—she had it all. But now, at 40, her career is drier than her agent’s WhatsApp replies. So when she's offered a spot on Celebrity Survival Island, she says yes before reading the fine print. (Rookie mistake.)Now she’s in the middle of nowhere, with no phone, no glam squad, and no clue how...

'A wonderful self-portrait of a family with autism at its heart. Uplifting and grounded, frank and encouraging, serious and funny, A Normal Family affirms that there is life after an ASD diagnosis - an atypical life, yes, but an abundant and nourishing life just the same' David Mitchell, author of THE REASON I JUMPJohnny is nineteen. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - in his case tha...

A collection of poetry for everyone in particular.

A children's Bible that takes its scholarship as seriously as its storytelling.Featuring the voices of 55 biblical scholars, theologians, and storytellers from around the world, God's Stories as told by God's Children is a beautifully illustrated storybook Bible that integrates biblical scholarship into engaging storytelling.A library, not a book.A conversation, not a monologue.A collection of wisdom

A premature collection of posthumous poems.“He loves the little things in life because he knows that really they are the big things.” The i"The funniest man you've never heard of." The TelegraphHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television....