Now Available: Half-Familiar Words. A novel about art, trauma, and the power to reshape reality

I’m thrilled to share that my debut novel, Half-Familiar Words, is now available on Amazon.

Set in the near future, in a world quietly unraveling from ecological collapse, political upheaval, and something stranger - a phenomenon called the well - this is a novel about what happens when art gains real power. Power to heal. To destroy. To alter memory, perception, even history.

At its heart are several characters grappling with that transformation:

• Dr. Moira Stevens, a rationalist scientist trying to make sense of the impossible;

• Emma Reyes, a teen painter whose work relieves pain and reverses death’s grip;

• Ziyad Ashrawi, a Palestinian exile who once brought down a wall with a poem;

• June Barlow, an Australian photographer capturing grief in supernatural frames;

• Lord Adrian Westfield, a man who kills to be seen;

• and Jonathan Meyer, a philosopher-street-mystic who may or may not be mad.

Together, their stories explore a world where the boundaries between science, belief, memory, and creation begin to blur. Where art is no longer metaphor - it acts. It reshapes. And it demands something from those who wield it.

This isn’t a thriller. It’s not about saving the world.

It’s about understanding what the world becomes when the tools we use to express our inner lives start rewriting the outer one.

If you’re drawn to literary speculative fiction - stories with depth, ambiguity, philosophy, and characters caught between beauty and terror - Half-Familiar Words might be for you.

You can find it here.

And if you do read it, I’d love to know what you saw in it. What you felt. What stayed with you.

Half-Familiar Words book cover