Shredded Time is a living project. The novel you have been reading is one of several manuscripts by the same writer — recovered, edited, and brought to this site over time. There are decisions to be made about what happens next, and we would rather make them with you than without you. Below is what is under consideration. If any of it interests you, say so.
The next novel — four candidates
Cornwall. A couple drive the woman's Alzheimer's-affected mother back to the Devon farm where she grew up, hoping it will unlock something. It doesn't. The journey unlocks other things instead. A day out that becomes a reckoning.
Three strands converge on Cremorne Leisure Gardens in Chelsea — a blind veteran and a young thief, two dressmakers stealing a night of freedom, an expatriate American painter with his own ideas about art and mortality. Not everyone gets home.
Dome Cities. A DNA Detective investigates citizens dying out of time. His android assistant loves him in her way. The greatest all-girl rock band in the galaxy is touring from Mars. None of this ends well for anyone involved.
Fulham, late 1950s. Bobby Clayton is eleven, has a broken arm, a budgerigar, and a ghost who visits him in Brompton Cemetery. His father is about to become famous. Bobby is writing everything down in blue notebooks.
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The first four chapters of Shredded Time are available to listen to. Chapters five through twenty-seven are not. That could change.
The GoCom(pletely) Soufflé — formerly the award-winning Jazz Soufflé — has been resting since March 2025. It is not finished. A return episode is planned, when the time is right.
Stepping Up, a radio play written by Joan Lally and directed by Olivier Barnardo, is in the pipeline. Legal clearance is pending. It will appear on this site when it is ready.
If you have a view on any of the above — which novel, whether audio matters to you, whether you'd listen to a new Soufflé episode — we would genuinely like to hear it. Use the contact form. No obligation. A sentence is enough.
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