The author, his writing, photography and more
The first draft of Alan McCluskey’s novel The Boy in the Book is complete. Read more, including an extract from the book.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I’ve just finished the first draft of my latest novel, The Boy in the Book.… Read more
The Boy in the Book, the battle of a girl and her friends against the story-mongers who spread rogue stories to manipulate the world. Coming soon.
Just passed the 100,000 word mark with four more chapters to go (of 52 in all).… Read more
A gallery of photos from the moving exhibition in Lausanne cathedral about Iran and its girls’ and women’s fight for their rights and freedom.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I was very moved by the exhibition about Iran and the courageous girls and women who are fighting for their rights and freedom.… Read more
A flash fiction about a chance encounter full of ambiguity and unspoken dialogue.
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
“Madame,” she said, as she reined in the fluffy enthusiasm of her dog that was eager to get in its own wet-nosed hello.… Read more
How does our dependence on expertise and the use of certification to vet that expertise influence the emergence of new practices or the resurgence of more ancient ways of healing?
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
As I lay on the massage table, my shoulder being expertly kneaded back into shape, I spoke to my physiotherapist about Reiki.… Read more
A flash fiction about the impossibility of magic and the possible transgression of trying to make magic work in reality.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
“Magic is the eruption of the impossible in the domain of the possible,” the old professor said, leaning forward and lowering his voice as if he were part of a conspiracy.… Read more
I wish you good health and happiness, but, above all, I wish you courage to make the changes necessary for the challenges present and to come.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Looking back over the past year, my vision is necessarily coloured by who I am and what I’ve done.… Read more
Rather than founding history on an original sin, a more satisfactory perspective has the perceived separation of the individual from the world as the onset of modern times.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
I like to imagine that there was a time when all living things were part of an indivisible whole.… Read more
It was years of cast-off story fragments and untold wild fantasies that finally formed the foundation on which to build my novels…
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Throughout my life I’ve told myself stories, many of them messy fragments with neither a beginning nor an end.… Read more
Under the common banner of LGBT, the first 3 categories are about sexual orientation, whereas the T is about gender identity. This difference has far reaching implications as does the diversity of identities and expressions cohabiting as transgender.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Out walking I had a long conversation with someone about gender.… Read more