Fifteen books rooted in Scottish lives, music, friendship, survival and dark humour. Choose by length or mood, then follow the clearest route into the work.
All titles are available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. Outside the UK or US, use your local Amazon store.
Where to begin
Try one free
Miserable Bastards. One Glasgow day, cheap drink, friendship, regret and small mercies.
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Burn is about a man at rock bottom who refuses to stay there. Music, friendship, football, anger and the hard work of getting your life back.
Start with a collection
Death brings together nine pieces about mortality, memory, friendship and staying alive.
Longer stories
Burn
Tam is forty, unemployed, still carrying the damage of a near-fatal suicide attempt and trying to work out what the fuck comes next.
There are old pals, bad nights, football, women, anger, guitars and songs. Mostly there is Tam refusing to stay where he landed.
Burn is about rock bottom, but it isn’t interested in staying there. It is about friendship, music, stubbornness and the slow, untidy business of getting your life back.
Note: Contains themes of depression, suicide, strong language, sexual content, and violence.
Follow the Light
Mick is lost. Not poetically lost. Properly lost.
Drink, regret, strange nights, bars, football, sex, guitars and a voice somewhere in the noise telling him to follow the light.
The story moves through memory, dreams and the mess of the present, with one question underneath it all: when you’ve wandered far enough from yourself, can you still find your way back?
Stories and novellas
Miserable Bastards
A darkly comic story of Al, a washed-up writer drifting through one Glasgow day, haunted by regret, cheap drink, and half-remembered hope. It’s about friendship, absurdity, and the small mercies that keep us human.
Drinking with Frankie
Tam and Frankie go for a drink in Glasgow.
This goes about as sensibly as you would expect.
There are buses, pints, dodgy pubs, a rock gig, women, bad ideas, excellent ideas that turn out to be bad ideas, and two old pals talking shite and carrying each other through the night.
A story about friendship, music and the particular madness of a Glasgow night out.
Shelter
October. A Scottish seaside town.
A man walks familiar streets with old friends, old loves and the dead keeping him company. Rain on the beach. A pub. Guitars. Songs that can take you twenty years backwards before you know what has happened.
Shelter is about grief, memory and the places we go when we need somewhere to stand for a while.
The Valley Floor
A short story that begins with a corporate execution. You can read the opening chapter on the blog.
Best Days
A short story that opens at dawn. Blue sky, the first warm rays of the sun, two birds in a dance of life above the shared garden. You can read the opening on the blog.
The Ghost
A dark tale told in fragments. Blood on the pavement, empty streets, a detective with empty eyes, and a blade that does what it is told. You can read it on the site.
Rock and Roll Is Dead
Frankie and Deak thrash it out over a few beers: is rock and roll dead, or is it just resting? Part two is on the blog.
And So It Does
The day fades out like a bleeding man, all oranges and reds behind the tree line, last gasps of light before night. You can read the opening on the blog.
Desert Songs
Music playing through the night. Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance. And a question nobody answers: who is going to dig the grave? You can read the opening on the blog.
Note: Contains violence.
Collections
Death
The new collection. Death is not a book about surrender. It is about the stubborn, ridiculous and beautiful business of staying alive.
Across nine stories and prose pieces, Paul Andrew Sneddon writes about fathers and sons, hospitals, pubs, pals, crows, rivers, music, lovers, illness and the ordinary people who keep moving beneath the shadow of death.
A ten-pound note becomes an act of love and memory. A Dylan record opens a door back to a father. A crowded bar dissolves into the silence of a hospital room. Two ageing lovers sit beside a river with a battered guitar. And through it all comes the same answer to the darkness:
Not yet.
Death is tender without sentimentality, funny without looking away and defiant without pretending that loss can be defeated.
A book about mortality, memory, friendship, love and refusing to become dead before you die.
Shore
A collection gathering work written between January and March 2026. Built out of real days, hard weather, music, and the need to make something real.
Sunset and Other Stories
The early work.
Pubs, beaches, night streets, bad decisions, small victories, people losing things and people carrying on.
These are the stories where the voice first started to become what it is now: grit, humour, music, ordinary lives and a stubborn belief that even in the worst moments there is usually something worth holding onto.
Getaway Claus and Other Stories
Stories for the festive season.
All fifteen books are on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. New titles are added as they land.
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