Laurie Brady

Ed Grainger returns home from his History Club meeting to find his house swarming with police. His wife Lucy has been murdered. The police identify a number of suspects. Was it Lucy's recently jilted lover, her work colleague robbed of promotion, her lawyer with whom she had a brief affair, Ed's 'unhinged' and jealous stalker and her equally as jealous and bellicose husband, or the young malefactor wanting an inheritance pay-out. Or is it someone...

Enter Donegal is a highly entertaining story of a mischievous Irish Setter who becomes part of the Ellis family, and who, after several years of being the family pet, reveals that he can not only walk upright, but that he can read, write, and is a master of most sports. The story traces the powerful relationship he forms with each family member, and his adventures in helping Tom's children, capturing burglars, confronting bullies, freeing other dogs...

Swords and Kisses is the story of two young friends who battle to manage two very different obsessions that threaten to change the course of their lives. Both encounter highs and lows as they attempt to resolve their challenges, which they do in very different ways. It is also a story about friendship and empathy that is, told with an economy of prose, and an insight into the human condition.

Seymour, a somewhat 'different' 22-year-old, is infatuated with Louise, and believing they are destined for one another, sets out to 'win' her love. His attempt to put her on a pedestal for others to admire, fails, so persuaded that girls like boys to be tough, he is encouraged to show Louise his masculine side! When the results are not what he'd anticipated, he tries to seek favour with her parents, thinking Louise will be impressed with him if...

Slices, a title taken from Zola's description of good drama as 'a slice of life', contains sixteen stories that explore a range of often capricious and sometimes, predictable responses to the challenges life presents. The stories explore the nature of memory and imagination, friendship and love, decline and loss, searching and fulfilment, and even the ridiculous. Collectively, they offer insight into the human condition, and pose challenging questions...

Recollecting school escapades, ridding a house of lust, a practical joke misfiring, dealing with a boy's swearing, a talking dog, a woman's take on the Odysseus legend, dogged self-centredness, a suspect solution to the world's problems, bizarre seductions, an afterlife wish granted, a jinxed lover pursuing his beloved… These are some of the themes of the seventeen humorous short stories in Pursuit involving a variety of comic expressions: situational,...