The Starless Square

One of his pupils once confessed, with typical candour and ambiguity, that Alan McCluskey had taught her the creative value of madness. His work, whether as a teacher or a video artist or a company director or a scientist or a novel writer, has always been marked by a need to question the obvious, adopting what he calls the Martian perspective in which the self-evident is not taken for granted. He has brought that questioning perspective, along with a passion for images and what they can reveal, to novel writing, together with a long-standing fascination for the dream world and the magic of fantasy. He has completed nine novels, five of which, The Reaches, The Keeper’s Daughter, The Starless Square, Boy & Girl and In Search of Lost Girls have been published by Secret Paths Editions.