Birdkill

Robyn’s recent past is missing. And she’s not sure she wants it back.Robyn Shaw has amnesia, a recent trauma so great her mind has veiled her memory. When she starts a new life teaching at a research institute devoted to exceptionally gifted children, the last thing she expects is for those blocked events to be lying in wait for her. Plagued by dreams of death and blood that threaten to overwhelm her, Robyn is fragile and vulnerable.

When she meets student Martin Oakley plucking sparrows from the air and breaking their necks, she is pitched into a vicious battle that threatens her grasp of her own mind. Attacked from without and within, Robyn struggles to maintain her increasingly tenuous hold on reality as journalist Mariam Shadid races to discover the dreadful secret buried in Robyn’s past before her friend is consumed by insanity.

ALEXANDER MCNABB Alexander McNabb has been working in, living in and travelling around the Middle East for some 30 years. Formerly a journalist, editor and magazine publisher, today he is a consultant on media, publishing and digital communications. Alexander is a frequent conference speaker, chair and moderator - as well as commentator in broadcast and print media - particularly around technology, media and online issues. When he’s not writing books, he’s posting half-thoughts and snippets on his blog, Fake Plastic Souks, which he started in 2007 during the Arab Media Forum. The title refers to the ’new’ souks of Dubai, so much more convenient and classy than the real thing. Alexander’s first serious novel was the critically acclaimed Olives - A Violent Romance, a work that explores the attitudes, perceptions and conflicts of the Middle East, exposing a European sensibility to the strange and multi-layered world of life on the borders of Palestine. Self-published in 2011, the book found a receptive audience and triggered wide controversy. This was followed by testosterone-soaked international spy thriller Beirut - An Explosive Thriller, which was self-published in the UAE in 2012. He published his third Middle East based novel, Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy, a thriller about a dying man unearthing his past, in 2013. A Decent Bomber, set in Ireland, published in 2015 and Birdkill published on March 1st 2016. You can find Alexander and his books at www.alexandermcnabb.com.