Past, present and near future works from Pat Murray
Each novel is about the need to complete a journey to satisfy the protagonist’s pathological needs. They are full of darkness, love, adventure, quirkiness and redemption. They are page turners, deftly written with dollops of black humour, sex and degrees of violence.
Mike's Mourners - Mike finds a cool way, at least in his own mind, to both have fun and give him a purpose in life, until he pushes his luck too far and risks having to face the music for his actions.
A young, promiscuous Shropshire lad finds what he thinks is love with an older woman. She helps him land a job as a porter in the hospital where she works. There, he forms relationships with emotionally vulnerable females and sets about an unusual task of sleeping with a hundred grieving women! It all links with his troubled upbringing with his alcoholic mother. Will he achieve his weird goal? It’s a full-pelt, bouncing gambol of a story, which careers towards (with twists and turns on the way) a catastrophic end.
The Trips - a swift tour of the 80s, 90s and noughties in England and the USA (Indiana) seen through the eyes of a British man on death row.
An almost forensic look into why exactly a nice, well educated boy from Liverpool, ends up on death row in Indiana.
Looking back, from his cell, Carl Kelly takes us on a journey through his happy childhood, through family breakup, chronic sibling jealousy, as his little sister breezes through a successful career and marries a wealthy entrepreneur, and his slide towards deviancy as his efforts to make his mark in the world fail repeatedly. Everything leads to his final terrible act designed to give him what he craves. Notoriety.
AIDEN - a tale of love, hope and tragedy about broken people healing each other
Ricocheting between dreams and fantasy and cold, harsh reality, this novel highlights the stories of young people lured or snatched from their home to reside in a big house in the English countryside. They are part of a grand design by wealthy businessman, Peter Wilshaw. One of his captives, Aiden, feels he is special to Peter and needs to find out why. Eventually the truth is revealed, which leads to earth-shattering events. A strange tale about lost families, the power of fantasy and the need for love. An intricate patchwork of histories leading to a tense, revelatory finale.
No. 39 - Like your local bus, it is delayed by traffic. Please wait at the bus stop for its arrival (probably late 2025)
A 75 year old man, Jimmy Moore, looks back on his life as he embarks on his own, very personal, odyssey around England on local buses! We relive his past, witness his present and wonder at his future in this whimsical, heartfelt account of a man’s life. Part travelogue, part life story and part love story, we gradually realise the reason for this journey. Maybe we will all want to make our own journey as the years pile on…. !
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