Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 8)
29 May '20
PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 – PART 5 – PART 6 – PART 7 When Rebecca hung up, Daniella had stood in the lane...
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Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 7)
22 May '20
PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 – PART 5 – PART 6 ‘Sorry,’ Rebecca said to Sawyer beside her, as she hung up on...
Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 6)
15 May '20
PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 – PART 5 When the next call was pumped onto her screen, Daniella was thinking of dialling...
Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 5)
08 May '20
PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 Rebecca was in Barney’s a full ten minutes before Sawyer arrived. She’d got him a whisky –...
Dryburgh (Part 3)
08 May '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 2 here) 3. The Wasteland Disobedience of a direct order from a superior officer had only one...
Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 4)
01 May '20
PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 Daniella’s boss had insisted that they talk ‘in private’, in the team room, never a good sign. It was the...
Dryburgh (Part 2)
24 Apr '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 1 here) Explanatory Note What you have in your hands is an account of history in the old sense. For the...
Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 3)
24 Apr '20
PART 1 – PART 2 The line went dead. Rebecca knew Daniella was in trouble and that annoyed her as the woman was a friend. She stopped for a...
Behind the Scenes of “Death Insurance” by Morgan Cry and Douglas Skelton
14 Apr '20
We chatted to authors Morgan Cry (aka Gordon Brown) and Douglas Skelton about their Lockdown collaboration, the novella Death Insurance.
Dryburgh – Alistair Moffat
09 Apr '20
I like yarns, ripping if possible, and in these the strangest of times, the escape offered by reading a ripping yarn is more valuable than ever....
Death Insurance – Morgan Cry & Douglas Skelton (Part 1)
09 Apr '20
When Daniella Coulston, a claims assistant for a major insurance company, takes a call from a man who declares he will be dead within the hour, she...
A Time of Distance
09 Apr '20
Our own Alexander McCall Smith, author of 44 Scotland Street, wrote a poem for readers last week. It was read on BBC Radio 4 PM and appeared in the...
