Most of his books start with something nobody asked for.
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Four books, in ebook and paperback. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
A novel
Milk. Light bulbs. Call Sarah.
Arthur Vale spent thirty-one years settling insurance claims. He always assumed that when he went, people would have kind things to say about him. They do, mostly. They just aren't saying them to him.
Complete trilogy
The oceans have been gone for three hundred years. What water is left is metered, taxed and sold back by the cup.
Book one
Everyone in the Rust-Gutter knows the story of a boy, a boat and a light across a sea that no longer exists. Nobody believes it. Then Calder learns the sea did not vanish. It was hidden.
Book two
Calder gave the world back its sea. Now it will not stop rising: a hand's width a month, quietly, in the night, and every road leads to the last dry country.
Book three
There is no shore left. There is only the Count. Four thousand people on a fleet of small hulls, and a system built to keep them alive that begins deciding who is worth keeping.
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28 JanNext out
Ossk was meant to watch one human for five years and decide whether humanity was ready for contact. Ossk kept watching instead. For thirty-three years. Now the Department has noticed, and the deadline is June.
29 April 2027
He bought everything on the list. Then one night he left the keys on the front tyre and walked into the trees.
29 July 2027
Winifred Haigh is ninety-two and medically fit. Every morning at six, before the lights, she takes the register of the women in Bay C.
28 October 2027
Four people. One name. Every Thursday for two years, Marta took her daughter to see an old woman who called her Caroline.
27 January 2028
Your last sight passes to the next child born. Saja Lorne carries three glimpses of a murder she was never meant to see.
27 April 2028
Whoever chooses the minute a child is born chooses what it will carry for the rest of its life.
27 July 2028
A glimpse never crosses the sea. Not every child the Passage carries away arrives.
About
Most of J Banners' books start with something nobody asked for, and then keep going long after a sensible person would have stopped.
He reads across literary fiction, crime, science fiction, dark fantasy and noir. Away from the page he makes music, usually late and usually with the door shut, and cooks with more ambition than a weeknight strictly requires.
The Register
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