roger morris  
 


My novel Taking Comfort was published in April 2006 by Macmillan New Writing.

Here's the blurb:

Rob Saunders just wants to feel safe, but the world is a dangerous place.

It's Rob's first day in his new job. On the way to work, he sees a student throw herself under a tube train. Acting on an impulse, he picks up a file she dropped as she jumped. Over the next few days, he's witness to other disturbing events, some more serious than others. From each one he takes a 'souvenir'.

Through these objects, he hopes to keep at bay the dangers and terror that threaten him. The more terrible the tragedy an object is associated with, the greater its power.

As Rob's behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, he crosses the line between witnessing disasters and seeking them out.

Events begin to spiral out of control when he makes a frightening discovery while jogging in the woods.

Atmospheric, tense and stylistically bold, Taking Comfort is an exploration of identity and desire told through multiple viewpoints. This contemporary urban novel has as its theme the anxieties and survival strategies of a post-9/11 world.

An extract from Taking Comfort appeared in the American literary journal Ink Pot.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0230001378/qid=1129486224/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_0_5/026-7574189-6943613

I have a blog. But then who doesn't? http://rogersplog.blogspot.com

There's also a website devoted to my book, where you can even view a video clip of me talking:

http://www.takingcomfort.com

Read a review here:
http://www.debrabroughton.com/archives/215/

STOP PRESS: Under the name R.N.Morris I also write historical crime fiction. A Gentle Axe, the first of my St Petersburg-set novels, will be published by Faber in February 2007, and by the Penguin Press in America in March 2007.