James Morgan-Jones

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How do we connect with the life of the spirit in a very material world? We are all, at some level, aware of a world beyond our immediate physical environment. Some people are particularly sensitive to it. In 'The Glasswater Quintet' I explore the nature of time, history and a spiritual (not necessarily religious) dimension through the lives of ordinary but passionate individuals who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances: danger, illness, the criminal world, loss, the threat of emotional breakdown. What happens when other planes of existence break through into daily lives? Can the dead truly influence the living? What is the nature of place, and of haunting?

Wales is a nation rich in literature and mythology. The worlds 'beyond the veil' are woven into the DNA of the Welsh. Being rooted in this small but fascinating, beautiful and multi-faceted country gives me, perhaps, an insight into the yearning we all feel - at least at times - to explore and connect with the 'otherworld'. This is the supernatural in its true sense: that is to say, not a place conjured by imagination, but a plane above and beyond our usual senses, giving us insights and experiences vital to our wellbeing - indeed, to our very existence.

All my protagonists are, however, very much rooted in the physical world. They face the same trials, triumphs, sorrows and joys we all do. I trained originally as an actor at the renowned Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. I like to think that my past life in theatre gives me a powerful sense of the dramatic. In my novels dramatic tension and gripping storylines run alongside the ever-present supernatural in my characters' lives. The books are immersive, atmospheric and thrilling. This is the world of 'The Glasswater Quintet' - welcome!

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Eye of the Rushes (The Glasswater Qunitet Book 4) 04-Nov-2020

by James Morgan-Jones

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Prismatic beauty. Dark perversion…

… I see the colours, how they wreathe the bodies of people, animals in the fields, how they swirl about places… It is a dance, a changing dance that don’t end, just as if the kaleidoscope was turned and turned and never stopped... It is beautiful, but sometimes it is terrible…

In 1894, a maid troubled by her ability to ‘see’ colours, becomes unwitting catalyst to an atrocity. The brutal murder of a young policeman, his body discovered among the rushes at Hadensill Manor, remains unsolved. A hundred years later, a film attempts to unravel the mystery. Attached to the film crew, Eva is increasingly drawn to the strange, unforgiving atmosphere of the house, and to the child Sybell, who also sees colours: what connection is there between her and the long-dead maid, Mary Vince? Who was Esther Paine, housekeeper at Hadensill, whose influence seems to endure? Forced simultaneously to deal with the legacy of her own past, Eva’s obsession brings her to the brink of collapse. But she cannot escape a violent and terrifying present…

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The Glass Citadel (The Glasswater Quintet Book 2) 16-Oct-2017

by James Morgan-Jones

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In its frosted chambers, everyone is alone

An abducted psychic reads the cards to preserve her sanity. In another part of the country, struggling to keep his family from disintegration and to deflect the lethal attentions of an East End gang, Luke is forced to flee his home.

In the long hot summer of 1976, these two strangers are connected in a way neither of them understands. Yet, as mounting obsession and the pursuit of violent revenge send events spiralling out of control, it becomes clear that their lives depend on a mutually-powered drive to prevail.

The cards offer both a line of communication and a tantalising hint at salvation: Luke and Paige need to rely not only on their wits but on symbiotic faith and vision. Can the intangible ever be strong enough to deliver them - and those closest to them - from the forces of destruction?

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The Stone Forest (The Glasswater Quintet Book 3) 11-Nov-2018

by James Morgan-Jones

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The 1930s are drawing to a close. On the brink of adulthood, Phyl discovers the Creek, an isolated community stranded between the Essex marshlands and the industrial highway of the Thames, where her life is unexpectedly enriched. But in the aftermath of life-changing illness and the traumatic loss of a friend, Phyl and her sister find themselves abruptly relocated to rural Wales where it is soon clear that the spectre of grief has not released its grip on her. Following the discovery of a cryptic set of verses and haunted by the foreboding figure of a man she does not know, Phyl is compelled both to unravel the strands of past tragedy and to confront an ever more implacable present as malevolent forces gather, threatening to destroy not only her fragile happiness but her very existence.

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On the Edge of Wild Water (The Glasswater Quintet Book 1) 20-Jun-2017

by James Morgan-Jones

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‘In the glass, reflected light reared like a burning ship. Whispered words, with the urgency of intercession, opened a laceration in her brain. On the livid tissues behind were drawn the cramped dimensions of a dark, musty room…’

In extremis, the future will feed on the past

Bethan is in the grip of a serious eating disorder. Taken to her late grandmother’s cottage in West Wales in a last-ditch attempt to tackle her illness, there she is beset by unsettling visions. History and place exert a powerful hold on her fragile sense of self.

Driven on by the revelations of a Victorian minister’s journal, her vivid psychic connection with a troubled boy and the ambivalent, enigmatic sway of the visitant Lydia, Bethan is plunged into a one hundred and sixty year-old tragedy as the material world and the voices of the dead collide.

The force of a past not yet assuaged is unleashed, compelling Bethan and her parents to confront a seemingly unstoppable catastrophe of their own.

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The Wheel and Other Stories 15-Sep-2017

by James Morgan-Jones

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A widower entombs the voice of his dead wife in an antique walking stick – but will it be enough to silence her? When the life of a vulnerable woman is struck by calamity, nemesis looms for a would-be lothario at the local veterinary surgery – can anyone emerge unscathed from the aftershock? In rural West Wales, a farmer’s wife develops a disturbing infatuation with a derelict parsonage, which seems somehow connected to the fates of her unborn children. Crossing boundaries of period (the Welsh valleys of the 1940s via a post war East End to the present day), and exploring a range of style and mood from black comedy to domestic tragedy, ‘The Wheel’ embraces reflections on the nature of loss, the haunting burden of childhood trauma and much more besides. If you enjoy variety in a short story volume, this book is for you.

The Amber Walking Stick

A provocative communication from his dead wife throws a smug widower’s life into turmoil.

Jesse’s Room

Amid a bullying atmosphere of tension in a nursing home, the intuitive connection between a bereaved nurse and her dying patient has unforeseen consequences.

The Parsonage

Fascination with a ruined parsonage turns to dangerous obsession for a woman struggling with a new life in rural Wales.

Lilian

A diamond eternity ring becomes a symbol of unspoken need and trust between a char woman and her unhappy employer in the East End of the 1950s.

Overflow

A man in the grip of bereavement finds that the natural world not only offers solace but threatens to overwhelm him in this study in miniature of the pain of grief.

The Wheel

Can an act of childhood cruelty which has shaped the life of a successful academic be finally laid to rest?

Taking Gwenni Back

The discovery of an unsent letter compels a woman to revisit childhood tragedy in the Welsh valleys of the 1940s, and the many lives affected by it.

Mothers’ Meeting

An artist and single parent living with a sexy young lover finds that the burden of the past will not easily be cast off in this comedy-drama.

Aerial

A face from the past prompts an emotionally adrift man to unearth disturbing memories of a childhood holiday on the Essex coast.

Fresh

An abruptly widowed woman discovers unsuspected dimensions to her life during an encounter with strangers in a forest.

A Hospital Visit

The intense relationship between a lonely young mother and her child reaches crisis point in a poignant tale of adult anxiety and the emotional hypersensitivity of the very young.

Angelina

Overlapping lives are forced to confront their own shortcomings when tragedy shatters the fragile equilibrium of a mentally vulnerable woman.

Bertie’s Brain

A disabled cat forces a woman to exorcise not only the ghosts of her past but the encumbrances of the present in a comedic tale of sudden and unassuming enlightenment.

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