The Compass Without North: Sixty and One Essays on What Comes Tomorrow
Work in Progress
A sequence of sixty-one essays tracing the thresholds between technology, ethics, and the human spirit. The Compass Without North moves through hospitals, classrooms, courtrooms, and dreamscapes to study how invention reshapes conscience and memory. Each essay stands alone as an encounter—with machines that remember, children born fluent in code, cities haunted by their own reflections—yet together they form a single meditation on direction in an age of drift. Written in the voice of witness rather than prophet, it searches for measure where progress outruns wisdom and asks what remains sacred when even thought becomes data. Expected publication: 20th January 2026.
Through ash and sniw – eleven stories of vigil
Work in Progress
Across six centuries and three continents, lives keep vigil at the edge of flame, snow, and silence. In Tudor London, a young woman clutches a forbidden Gospel and walks toward Smithfield; later, another girl measures what that courage cost. In Rome, a painter and his model stand between faith, art, and princes who buy beauty from suffering. In the Andes, an archaeologist brushes ash from fused books and a child’s toy, hearing a festival warn of empires and cities yet to burn. From Mayo’s big house to Highland smugglers and Volga dugouts, each tale rests on one act: staying awake, remembering, holding light against amnesia: Expected 24th February 2026
A Harder Kind of Mercy
Work in Progress
Set amid the upheavals of the Russian Civil War, A Harder Kind of Mercy follows the Polish cavalry officer Stanisław Józefowicz through Petrograd’s thawing streets, Crimean dust, and the long retreat toward the Black Sea. The novel binds historical precision to the pulse of lived conscience—soldiers, singers, priests, and watchmakers share the same moral weather, each learning how mercy survives under command. Told through language forged from iron, ash, and snowlight, it studies courage as a discipline and compassion as an act of order. The work continues to grow chapter by chapter toward completion, with publication expected in Late 2026, early 2027.