These Mortal Bodies
My debut novel These Mortal Bodies is now available to pre-order!
I’m ready to be part of something bigger, I told myself, whispering the words over and over, visualizing myself at the centre of things, never alone again.
Leaving behind her childhood in coastal Scotland, neurodivergent Ivy Graveson arrives at a prestigious university and throws herself into the deep end of life on campus.
Though her fellow students all seem to come from money and to have known each other their whole lives, outsider Ivy is determined to belong. She embraces the world of secret societies, and as she discovers the legacy of her college, the parallels between its past and her present become striking. Because however hard she tries to ignore it, Ivy has always felt one with water and her own personal talisman, a heron, is never far away.
In just one life-changing year in these hallowed halls, Ivy will have to decide how much sisterhood means to her and how far she’ll go to become the person she was destined to be.
A richly atmospheric campus novel perfect for fans of The Secret History and dark academia, These Mortal Bodies is an intoxicating story of obsession, infatuation and toxic friendship in the world of the elites, where rules are made to be broken.
Too Hot to Sleep
My debut poetry pamphlet is published by Written Off Publishing. It came out in April 2023 and you can order it online here direct from the publisher. Scroll down to see more stockists!
Reflecting its own epigraph, Too Hot To Sleep is both ‘too much, and not enough’; too much in the way adolescence is - overwhelming, stimulating, dragging the reader’s attention through the chaos of teen culture - and not enough, because it would be impossible to have ‘enough’ of a collection so compelling.
Jamie Hale
Stockists
Aye-Aye Books (Glasgow)
Typewronger Books (Edinburgh)
Rare Birds Books (Edinburgh)
Portobello Bookshop (Edinburgh)
Greenhouse Records and Books (Edinburgh)
Night Owl Books (East Lothian)