MICHAEL WHITE

When “Dad comes to visit” Gwen and Dai are less than happy to see him, and things get a lot worse when he decides to start up a card school. Gwen finds it equally difficult to bring dad up to speed with the last six years of Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and with good reason, because six years is exactly how long dad has been dead for...From ...

For the residents of the Marion Hayrick retirement home, a unique opportunity has arisen to place their mark on the residential centre where they live. Given the choice between a nice little garden feature, a gazebo or a water feature to enhance the gardens about the home, they take a somewhat different approach....Containing several memorable c...

“That’s it.” she said, smiling from the back porch. “Just right. If you fill it with the compost I’ll put the primroses in it. It’ll look lovely there.” Billy dragged the first bag of compost over to where the bucket now was and propping the bag of compost up against the bush went to get his trowel. Billy was just exiting the shed when he saw th...

Dedicated to anyone who works in a call centre. Today is going to be a good day at the office...""A Good Day at the Office"" is one of several short stories from the collection, ""Liverpool"" which is available to purchase separately.

"""Ron was as straight as a die - old fashioned perhaps; some would say old school. But the heart of the matter, and if he were here with us now other than just in spirit, I think he would agree, is the fact that he was to all who knew him an unremarkable man. He never saw a ghost, found treasure buried in the darker wind swept places of the wor...

“The Sound of Guitars...”Liverpool. A city of poets, musicians,comedians and several banana shaped lamb statues.Oh, and a yellow submarine – and a cathedral (or two),and now a collection of fifteen short stories, tall talesand mysterious occurrences celebrating the city as well.Wrapped around Liverpool in the same waythat the river Mersey wraps ...

This is a big, big park.There’s nobody more aware of that than I am. Although there are more or less sixty constables in the Liverpool Parks Police force, there are more parks than Sefton to look after. We cover the bloody lot! At any one time there are probably about twenty of us in Sefton Park to watch over two hundred and bloody fifty four ac...

A new short story from the increasingly difficult to categorise list of titles by Michael White.""The final sounds of battle faded around them as the last ice creature fell dead, clearing the way ahead. Rizan slumped to the floor; his blood stained great sword clattering to the ground alongside him. Breathing heavily he could hardly manage to ra...