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Pleasantly surprised to find that my middle grade novel, The Time-Consuming Adventures of Harper Smedley, was recently long-listed for The Yeovil Literary Prize 2024. Still hopeful she’ll find publication someday…
IMITATION OF LIFE: A Short Story Collection
‘The degree to which a gentleman reveals himself to another is a curious state of affairs at the best of times, though I suppose the holding of a razor to one’s throat helps.’
A psychiatrist cures a husband who can predict his wife’s every thought, a man receives the ultimate gift from his ex, a father returns from the underworld for his son’s birthday, the last man on earth can’t be sure he is. In this collection of short stories and tall tales, the speculative rub shoulders with the truth, divine comedies with warnings for the curious, and sleepless dreams of dystopia take root a little too close to home.
Getting your hair cut will never be the same again.
THE LIFE LIVED
Ian Murphy’s debut novel is a journey into the memory of a man nearing the end, confronting a mysterious past where truth and lies become one.
Sarah Morgan’s death has haunted those who loved her. A lifetime later, her cantankerous widower Miles, having lived an inconveniently long life in the depths of the Scottish Borders, now approaches his own end. Architect of his memory, he seeks to find those responsible for the death of his wife, losing himself in a maze of fading memories, suspicions and betrayals to uncover the truth before his own time runs out.
ABOUT IAN MURPHY
As a boy, Ian wanted to be a writer. More specifically, he wanted to be a novelist. Even more specifically, he wanted to be a knovelist with a silent ‘k’. Nevertheless, Ian wrote his debut novel – The Life Lived – and has since completed two further novels; a speculative mystery – The Untimely Deaths of Addison Palmer – and a Middle Grade cli-fi/sci-fi comedy time travel adventure – The Time-Consuming Adventures of Harper Smedley. Ian’s short fiction has appeared alongside Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood in the anthology Tales On Tweet, and his readings have included appearances at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. His stories have featured in a variety of online and print literary publications and he is currently at work on a Young Adult fantasy novel.
Ian Murphy 