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Unexpectedly Sharp

Red (is my colour) … Again, in no particular order, the eighth of ten great albums or E.P.s I discovered last year. Well, Red is maybe not Lauren’s favourite, and I am not so sure this would have been on her playlist, but one for the author is not too much to ask. Imogen caughtContinue reading “Unexpectedly Sharp”

Available Now

The New Dark Urban Fantasy Novel by Ian Hedley ‘I was fourteen years old when all this began … Then, and now, my life sucks. There are things out there. Bad things. They are happening to everyone. The people we love. Those we hate. No one is immune, and they have to be stopped. To do that, IContinue reading “Available Now”

On the Wing

After a slightly longer than planned break – I blame the thousand and one distractions that swarm this time of year – The Official Newsletter for ianhedley.com will be on its way to subscribers later this January. Happy 2025. Don’t miss it. Subscribe now.

In The Pale Moonlight

Lauren had her own moment in the garden. No flowers bloomed, only an insipid moon in the purple bruise of a sky. Gravity. Gravity pulled her. She was way beyond over her head, and in so deep there was nothing else. But she would have loved this album. Again, in no particular order, theContinue reading “In The Pale Moonlight”

I Hear Music

“Unexpected. It breaks the silence of my hospital room.” Lauren Miller When it comes down to it, all that really matters are the relationships we make and manage somehow, against all the odds, not to break. Despite … The Things We Say Thankfully, family is tied with a knot that doesn’t easily undo, even whenContinue reading “I Hear Music”

Happy New Year, Wishing You All Blue Skies

Wishes. Fairytales. Fictions. Jake and I may have had enough of them but we wish you all a Happy New Year. We survived 2014. Say hello to 2015. Here we go again. Remember time, time doesn’t run right. Book Two of The Extraordinary Last Days of Jake Miller is well on the way to aContinue reading “Happy New Year, Wishing You All Blue Skies”

It Takes A Moment To Realise

“The music is coming from me? I’m humming. I didn’t even notice.” Lauren Miller Trust me, it doesn’t work out for Lauren and Jake, and the one thing they can never do, is come home. Home was never where the heart was, only the hurt. If home even exists at all. Again, in no particularContinue reading “It Takes A Moment To Realise”

I’m tired. We’re running from things that can’t be outrun …

Cutting thru the Country “… to places where they lie in wait. No one believes us, so no one helps. We are alone, scared, and holding your Mum’s hand at night won’t keep you safe, not anymore, and it turns out that your Dad is afraid of the big bad wolf because the big badContinue reading “I’m tired. We’re running from things that can’t be outrun …”

I Forget How Much We Have Lost

Lauren stayed in all day and loved reading alone. Okay, she was avoiding a crow, one blacker than ink, trailing midnight beneath its feathered wings. The third of ten great albums or E.P.s Lauren would have loved, in no particular order. ‘Dead Pony,’ raged across the Republic Stage at Leeds this year, shredding the vocals,Continue reading “I Forget How Much We Have Lost”