Graham Pryor

Graham’s most recent book, Closer To The Edge, returns initially to a theme explored in his earlier work, Salient, where the world of wild animals was conspiring to eradicate the human race. In Closer To The Edge, the narrative moves quickly from the animal to the human world where, through the main character, Rink, actual existential threats are shown to be developing in fierce competition. Rink escapes with his dog to the Scottish Highlands, whilst everywhere else is being swiftly inundated by rising sea levels. There, he finds that it is not climate change that will destroy us, but what many perceive as a man-made threat will actually provide the door to a new and peaceful existence.

An earlier work, Cerberus – A World Gone To The Dogs, covers a related theme. With the human species having been eradicated by aliens, the many subspecies of dogs become dominant over all species, having been gifted speech and a higher consciousness by the aliens. But this is essentially the story of Garth, a great mastiff rescued from an animal research laboratory, whose adventure reveals a whole new thread of humanity that exists within the world of the canids.

Closer To The Edge and Cerberus represent two genres amongst many in Graham’s eclectic portfolio of novels. Typically, their stories are grounded in actual locations. The most ‘real’ of these is likely to be found in Man With A Gun, which is based upon Graham’s own village, where the fictional underbelly of life in a Scottish coastal settlement is exposed, with smuggling and private militia providing a challenge for the inheritor of the eponymic gun.

In all of Graham's books you will find much of humour, mystery, adventure, politics, and sometimes magic. Reader reviews are always welcome.