Related Writings

The Raven Song
Kit Derrick
Featuring a cameo by an American living in Liverpool in 1995, this book is authored by Patrick Cornbill’s friend from his time in Liverpool in 1995.
The Raven Sound is the story of a Jack’s journey into the Worlds of 1994 and 1964, as he tries to discover the mysterious reason he seems to have been sent back in time, and to make a change which could be a matter of life and death for those he once cared about. And there’s no guarantee he will survive the experience himself.

Promote the Dog Sitter
Ed Conley
In Promote the Dog Sitter, former FEMA responder and NATO advisor Ed Conley shares ten proven principles for acting decisively and leading dynamically throughout any disaster. Drawing upon extensive experience, Ed has an eye-of-the-storm perspective that shows up-and-coming leaders how to overcome setbacks, develop teams, respond compassionately, and serve with integrity. A book for practitioners by a practitioner, Promote the Dog Sitter is a must-read guide for those who heed the call to make a positive difference in the world’s biggest crises.

Eyewall
H.W. “Buzz” Bernard
St. Simons Island, Georgia, has never been hit by a Category 5 hurricane. Until now. No one predicted the storm’s sudden force. A crippled Air Force recon plane, trapped in the eye of a violent hurricane. An outspoken tropical weather forecaster, fired from his network TV job before he can issue a warning: the storm is changing course and intensifying. A desperate family searching for a runaway daughter on Georgia’s posh St. Simons Island, cut off from escape as the hurricane roars toward them. A marriage on the rocks; an unrequited sexual attraction; a May-December romance. All will be swept up by the monster storm. Get ready for a white-knuckle adventure.

Heroin, Hurricane Katrina and the Howling Within
Eliza Player
As the whispers of Hurricane Katrina swirled through New Orleans, I did not even consider evacuating. The reason is simple. I did not have enough heroin to make it very far out of the city, without facing the impending doom of dope sickness. This is my story of the storm of the century. Follow me, sloshing through the storm’s flood waters, searching for my next fix, with the slow realization that things will never be the same again.

Flirting with Disaster
Naina Kumar
A romantic comedy set in a hurricane. Meena is a high-powered lawyer on Capitol Hill who returns to Texas to obtain a divorce. But there’s one thing she didn’t account for: a hurricane forming in the Gulf, veering right toward them and giving them no choice but to hunker down in the home they had built together. Suddenly, she finds herself trapped amid gale-force winds and pelting rain with the man she once loved.

Love in the Eye of the Storm: Hurricane Irma, Saint Martin & Togetherness
Billy Nahn
A timeless and gripping true story about a couple celebrating being free of breast cancer as well as a belated honeymoon on a Caribbean Island only to be periled by one of the largest hurricanes in modern history. Love, friendship, survival and gracious luck all come into play during this harrowing ordeal.

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals
Jesse Armstrong
It’s 1994, and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war.
Andrew would love to stop the war. He has one of the most comprehensively developed personal foreign policies of anyone working on a building site in the Greater Manchester area. But what he’d like to do – maybe even more than stopping the war – is sleep with Penny.
