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Posted on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022

Colourful People now available

Colourful People, the fourth book of the Boy & Girl Saga is now available in paperback, hard cover and electronic format. Also available are free samples: Chapter One & Chapter Two.

So what’s the novel about? Here’s a very brief summary.… Read more

Posted on December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

New hardcover editions

I’m progressively preparing the Secret Paths catalogue so all the books are also available on demand in hardback format. In the photo above, the first five. As I wrote elsewhere, I’m impressed by the texture and feel of the hardcover version.… Read more

Posted on November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

Hardcover version of Bursting with Life!

Hardcover Bursting with Life!

The hardcover version of Bursting with Life! is now available. This is the first time I’ve made a hardcover version of one of my novels and am very pleased with the result. I might well take the time to prepare hardcover versions of the other ten books.… Read more

Posted on October 19, 2021May 26, 2022

The joys and tribulations of dissonance

People cling to their point of view, even when it proves inaccurate. It is deeply rooted in their identity. Defending it when challenged is seen as an inalienable right. No holds are barred. Only by stepping outside that world view are other possibilities perceptible.… Read more

Posted on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Du nouveau sur Secret Paths

Chroniques Congolaises

Secret Paths Editions vient de publier le premier livre d’Huguette McCluskey-Cavin, Chroniques Congolaises. Pour en savoir plus sur l’auteure et son livre et pour avoir des liens pour procurer ce livre cliquer ici.… Read more

Posted on September 4, 2021September 5, 2021

Two million words…. leading to a question

I have just completed the draft of Bursting with Life! taking the overall word total of my sixteen written novels (see the complete list) to more than two million. Who would have thought I’d write so much when I began my first novel, The Reaches, fourteen years ago in 2007.… Read more

Posted on August 21, 2021December 25, 2021

The Boy in the Book – an interview

the boy in the book

Alan McCluskey lives in a quaint Swiss village known for its wine and waterwheels. After making my way up from the lakeside along a winding path by a noisy stream dotted with tiny waterwheels, I met him in what used to be a girls’ finishing school.… Read more

Posted on April 10, 2021April 11, 2021

Reaching the end of The Cloud Catcher

I have just finished the first draft of my latest novel, The Cloud Catcher. From my perspective as a writer, it’s been a very strange journey. Begun in tandem with another novel, Bursting with Life! – writing two books in parallel was something I’d never done before – The Cloud Catcher won the battle for my attention, leaving me to complete the other, half-finished novel later this year.… Read more

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

Letters from a Lost Girl #2

Letters from a Lost Girl #2

Sharing experience across continents and time, especially when it is a question of gender, throws differences of culture, behaviour and expectations in a stark light as can be seen in this second letter of Kate.… Read more

Posted on December 5, 2020December 5, 2020

Sad news: Puberty blockers blocked

I was deeply saddened to read that the high court in England has just ruled to severely curtail, if not forbid, access to puberty blockers for young people under 18 (See the article in The Guardian). This applies to GIDS at the Tavistock Institute, the sole clinic in England working with transgender children.… Read more

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Young Vint is bursting with life. So much so the world around him ripples with energy. His parents and carers have convinced him he’s mad, repression being their sole remedy. He becomes a willing prisoner of a grey world, stripped of friends, colour, movement and music… Only when he escapes with Tara does he realise his so-called madness may be a gift. All would be well, were it not for his carers who seek to get him back and exploit his abilities.
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