Murray Ewing: 8 books

There’s a new, mysterious flight of stairs outside 14-year-old Carol Tanner’s bedroom. It goes up and up and up, into the realms of sheer impossibility — just as stairs in a three-bedroomed semi-detached house on Willow Drive shouldn’t. And it’s not there all the time… One day,...

It’s 1984, and 13-year-old Tim is sitting on the school roof, waiting for the world to end.Or at least for it to start making sense.His life used to make sense. It was made up of two things: the exciting new world of home computers, and worries about nuclear war.There were certainly...

You’ve tried other self-help books. You’ve tried taking control of your life. You’ve tried affirmations, to-do lists, twelve-step programs, CBT, NLP and DIY. And… you failed. Well, what did you expect? You’re YOU. But there is another way… Everything about yourself that...

Everyone has a natural “story sense”, honed by the thousands of stories we’re exposed to growing up, from fairy tales, TV shows, movies, novels, comic strips, family anecdotes and playground jokes, to the founding myths of our many cultures. And just as musicians combine their natural,...

Nicholas Cabot, 25 years old and newly endowed with his uncle’s fortune, takes lodgings at the house of retired tragedian Leslie Sturt, intending to devote his time to perfecting an invention for recording dreams. At the Sturt household, Nicholas hears “Sphinx”, a short piece of piano...

France, 1700 — an age of wit and sophistication, frippery and flattery, reputation and ridicule; an age of politics, romance, intrigue and the sword.Gaston de Mailly, ex-solider and down-at-heel gentleman, is living in a Paris that has little use for his skill with a blade. Fortunately, his...

The first human being in fairy-haunted England witnesses the battles between the light-loving fairies and their thunderous, mountain-dwelling brothers, the giants… Alexander the Great is granted a glimpse of the fate of all would-be world-conquerors, and trembles… Flighty, fun-seeking youths idle...

Ingrid Fleming has always believed a goddess lies buried beneath the forbidding, Devil-headed rock-pile atop Devil’s Tor. But when the pile is shattered in a sudden storm, it’s her cousin, Hugh Drapier, who enters the newly-revealed tomb. Drapier has recently arrived from Tibet, where an...