‘No Air Native, No Man Kindred’ – extract

Caino (bis) - Wilhelm von Gloeden (Wikimedia Commons) This is Chapter 23 of GOMERY KIMBER's latest novel, No Air Native, No Man Kindred August 1935. A young James Valentine pursues his cousin, Clarissa Wyvern, to Munich. Clarissa is the black sheep of the Wyvern clan, dishonouring the family name by joining the British Union of…

9/11: premonition of disaster

Credit: Shutterstock GOMERY KIMBER believes there really can be second-sight On the afternoon of September 11th 2001 I was making notes for a story I planned to write about the ghost of a slave ship captain. I’d already named the ghost Noah, but I couldn't think of a suitable surname. I sat there, pen in hand, awaiting…

The War Party – extract

'Hypnos', Wilhelm von Gloeden This is Chapter Thirteen of GOMERY KIMBER's novel, The War Party, the second book of the Big Shilling trilogy. 'Verity Clissold wants the whistle-blower terminated. But he's taken refuge in a London embassy and not even the CIA can reach him. There is only one solution. Call in the most accomplished…

The Killing House – extract

Faun, 1898, by Wilhelm von Gloeden This is Chapter 22 of GOMERY KIMBER's novel The Killing House, about a would-be hitman who finds he's the one who's in danger Outline: American Troy has one ambition in life, to be an international hitman, so when he gets the chance to work for veteran assassin Rickardo Hanratty,…

Colin Wilson redux

Eagles and Earwigs: Essays on Books and Writers Colin Wilson, Eyewear Publishing, 2018, 412 pages, £16.65 GOMERY KIMBER welcomes a resurgence of interest in one of the cleverest ‘Angry Young Men’ If the novelist, philosopher and critic, Colin Wilson is remembered at all it is as one of the ‘Angry Young Men’, and for his…