Review
Atmospheric; intriguing. Beautifully observed characters. --BARBARA ERSKINE, best selling author of Time's Legacy.
A real page-turner, worthy of comparison with the early John Fowles but distinctively Raymond Nickford. --ALLEN J. MILLINGTON SYNGE , author of Bowler Batsman Spy.
Atmospheric, vibrant, spooky page-turner. --REAY TANNAHILL, historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
A real page-turner, worthy of comparison with the early John Fowles but distinctively Raymond Nickford. --ALLEN J. MILLINGTON SYNGE , author of Bowler Batsman Spy.
Atmospheric, vibrant, spooky page-turner. --REAY TANNAHILL, historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
Product Description
STORIES
A Musical Calling - Schizophrenic Sam Baldock is given a day out - his last - at the Beethoven Museum in Vienna where he believes he is called by the spirit of Beethoven. What will his little daughter witness at the top of those winding steps to the Pasqualati House on the Molkerbastie, once leading to the composer's rooms in 1810?
Reviews:
'Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing.'
Barbara Erskine - best selling author of Lady of Hay.
'A real page turner, worthy of the early John Fowles.'
Allen J. Millington Synge - author of Bowler Batsman Spy.
'Might easily become something of a cult.'
Reay Tannahill - historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
'Raymond Nickford's worlds are so claustrophobic they are almost unbearable to read - yet read we must. The first paragraph of this novel says more than many say in five chapters.....after a few chapters I am engrossed.'
Jane Alexander - author of Samael.
'There is so much to like here - the characters, the settings, the story; emotional, intriguing and full of human interest. Another winning combination.'
A Musical Calling - Schizophrenic Sam Baldock is given a day out - his last - at the Beethoven Museum in Vienna where he believes he is called by the spirit of Beethoven. What will his little daughter witness at the top of those winding steps to the Pasqualati House on the Molkerbastie, once leading to the composer's rooms in 1810?
Father's Helping Hand - Octogenarians Hubbald & Bros, piano tuners at their Old Chapel workshops, seem almost too kind when they choose to make a gift of a Steinway to their 'favourite' customer.
Family Tree - Mr Glossop might be a widower, his neighbours said, but it was time he poured acid on all those diseased roots. Was he really going to let his only son have the same degrading end as Mrs Glossop?
Voices of a Hypnotist - She had paid two weeks of her hard-earned salary to ease a phobia of spiders which she thought embarrassing for a nurse to have and now there was something Miranda couldn't quite trust in that voice; a hint of something nearer to Cockney than to Harley Street.
Nanny's Friends - 'She calls them her little friends,' Suzy slurred. 'Miss Harlow says that when it's time for a doll to "stay" with her, she "prepares" eyes, really beauuuutiful eyes for it.'
Nanny's Friends - 'She calls them her little friends,' Suzy slurred. 'Miss Harlow says that when it's time for a doll to "stay" with her, she "prepares" eyes, really beauuuutiful eyes for it.'
The Parchment Recipes - Emily clung for life to the bric-a-brac which made a Mausoleum of her home; for sure, in everything Berny had touched, he still lived and somehow she would - she would reach out to him.
The Rum Barber's Baby - Harry the barber was vast; a Sumo wrestler without the wrestle but it was only after two vandals had sprayed his shop window in boot-high capitals with I'M TOO FAT TO - - - - that he'd finally come to hate himself.
NOVELLA - A ROMANCE
A Face in a Corridor -
At night-time Amy's teacher enters the closed and dimly lit college buildings and, in the empty classrooms, the silent corridors, he tries to come to terms with what seem the appearances of his students.
They have reduced him, made him suspicious of the girl he wants to trust as his passport to their acceptance.
Can a paranoid stop himself from destroying she alone who might have shown him what love could be?
TAGS: Romance, thriller, crime, mystery, travel, literary, relationships, supernatural, psychological, music, ghost, character, atmosphere, Barbara Erskine.
NOVELLA - A ROMANCE
A Face in a Corridor -
At night-time Amy's teacher enters the closed and dimly lit college buildings and, in the empty classrooms, the silent corridors, he tries to come to terms with what seem the appearances of his students.
They have reduced him, made him suspicious of the girl he wants to trust as his passport to their acceptance.
Can a paranoid stop himself from destroying she alone who might have shown him what love could be?
TAGS: Romance, thriller, crime, mystery, travel, literary, relationships, supernatural, psychological, music, ghost, character, atmosphere, Barbara Erskine.
UK author, Raymond Nickford, believes people can be as intriguing as fiction, his degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University College of North Wales, subsequently leading to searching character studies.
Souls, particularly troubled ones; the outsider, the lonely and any driven to extremity, have been indispensable for his novels, now readable through online book stores including Amazon KINDLE.
Of his novel based in Cyprus, Aristo's Family, Barbara Erskine, best selling author of Lady of Hay, affirms "... the beautifully observed characters, intriguing and atmospheric scenes and, above all, the suspense which made me want to read on."
Raymond's favourite producer is Alfred Hitchcock, and the authors Patricia Highsmith, Ian
McEwan, Ruth Rendell, Henry James and, particularly, D H Lawrence,
have influenced his writing.
McEwan, Ruth Rendell, Henry James and, particularly, D H Lawrence,
have influenced his writing.
Reviews:
'Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing.'
Barbara Erskine - best selling author of Lady of Hay.
'A real page turner, worthy of the early John Fowles.'
Allen J. Millington Synge - author of Bowler Batsman Spy.
'Might easily become something of a cult.'
Reay Tannahill - historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
'Raymond Nickford's worlds are so claustrophobic they are almost unbearable to read - yet read we must. The first paragraph of this novel says more than many say in five chapters.....after a few chapters I am engrossed.'
Jane Alexander - author of Samael.
'There is so much to like here - the characters, the settings, the story; emotional, intriguing and full of human interest. Another winning combination.'
Andrew Wright - author of Sanctuary's Loss.
