The Lost DetectiveA summers afternoon. A tiny baby suddenly vanished from his pram, the mystery of what happened to him never solved. A young mother lost in grief. Twenty one years later, ex police detective Dan Hennessy is coming to terms with a loss of his own. When his neighbour disappears, and a nameless body turns up at a local solar farm, Dan is lured into a world of secrets reaching far into the past and with consequences for his future. Can he draw the clues

allowing his stories to hold up a mirror to the reader

Swarf is a book about life in a small town

from wildflower meadows to urban window boxes

"Harmon displays an ability to combine tenderness and pathos with a fiercely unsentimental honesty

and the very particular landscape of grieving

the message is unmistakable: “Well done

The musicians featured include: Milt Buckner

the connections between sacrifice and transcendence

the speaker sees the numinous power of language

Á la lumière d’hiver (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021)

including “Walking Away” and “The House Where I Was Born”

it’s make or break