Latest release - July 2024
Love, loss, rebellion
Fleeing an apathetic life of privilege, Max embarks upon a journey through a Mexico in the mid-1990s struggling to find its identity in the world. A Mexico in emotional and political turmoil as the discontent of the impoverished indigenous population in Chiapas slowly boils to the surface.
As Max travels from Mexico City, the Gulf coast, Yucatán Peninsula and finally into the depths of the jungle in Chiapas, his life is hijacked by the people he finds on his way: A lone traveller that will tear him apart; a charming revolutionary leader; an indigenous freedom fighter; a maverick presidential candidate; and a lover who will inspire him to fight for a cause worth dying for.
The deeper into Mexico he goes, the darker the places he discovers inside himself; inside the different, conflicting versions of himself. A journey within a journey. A journey into and out of his very being, where his academic travel companion is not what he seems. A journey full of choices that will not only shape who Max is, but also the fate of a society that he has become part of.
Desert of Solitude is a story of love, loss, revolution. Where solitude becomes solidarity, and solidarity attempts to bring about the change that a country, and its people, sorely needs.
Book two in the Butcherbird series
A tide of emotions
Would you change the course of the World if you had the power in your hands? Or would you try to save the lives of the people who could help you do just that?
In a ramshackle old language school above a fried chicken shop in Brighton, psychologist Frank Newman struggles with the decisions he has to make. Torn between providing the therapy that will ease his clients´ pain – or converting them into a network of viewers of the future.
Steven Richard Harris blends psychology and fiction together to leave you questioning whether neurological disorders are barriers to leading a normal life; or special gifts that have the power to ultimately shape our destiny?
Book one in the Butcherbird series
A moving debut novel
It´s nineteen ninety-four, a year when the Internet and Amazon are still in their infancy, Mandela blows away the shackles of apartheid, and O.J. Simpson´s escape from the law is broadcast to millions. It is also the year that Simon Webb first openly expressed the desire to end his own life.
Within the walls of Frank Newman´s austere consulting room, eighteen-year-old Simon confesses his darkest thoughts as his psychologist – plagued by his own conflictive personal doubts – tries desperately to find a way out of the maelstrom of guilt, self-harm and violent dreams that are consuming his enigmatic client.
These emotionally-charged sessions soon turn into something more sinister, however, after the death of grunge music´s brightest star begins to unravel the true meaning of Simon´s brutal nightmares.
Co-written by Steven Richard Harris
A book for our time
Covidiots – Stories of idiotic acts and bizarre behaviour, brings together a collection of true stories highlighting humankind´s sometimes unbelievable reactions to the early throes of the pandemic in March and April 2020.
Written at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, this short but revealing book tells the tale of how all kinds of people – from supermarket shoppers to presidents – dealt with the appearance of Covid-19 as it spread rapidly across the globe.
- One of the first books about the pandemic - published beginning April 2020
- All true stories from around the world
- Updated afterword July 2021
