About this series
Why, Pavlos wonders, does his dad dig for family long dead, why his hypnotism, the nausea, that pit of obedience, the next "Greek lesson" ?
Aristo's Family
Set in Paphos on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. A literary and psychological suspense.
Aristo's obsessive need to trace and belong to his family - even though he was told they were all burnt and left unidentifiable during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - has estranged his English wife, and is gradually distancing his only child while, in turn, Pavlos has an increasing need to feel he belongs to a father who will make time for him.
As the practices at Papas' late-night museum 'staff meetings' unfold themselves to Pavlos, the boy is led deeper into a sinister confrontation with what Papas calls his 'family', but which brings Pavlos, through the ancient face-masks and relics, to the unquiet souls of Greeks believed to have been thousands of years dead.
Both a father's and a son's need to belong, so long mutually exclusive, so long tested.
Aristo's Family reflects the author's fascination, in all his books, with studies of troubled, lonely or dysfunctional characters in family life and other relationships who may find that, ultimately, clouds can have a 'silver lining'. If the end to a story is not happy - in the sentimental sense - then the book as a whole, just as Nature planned it, should be affirmative of life, uplifting.
Other books of family life, psychological and literary suspense by Raymond Nickford
A Child from the Wishing Well
A father suffering paranoia fights mental illness to reach out to his lonely daughter.
Shortlisted for the Harper Collins ( Authonomy ) Gold Star award May 2010
Sunday Times bestselling author, Barbara Erskine, comments in the Preface
" Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing... "
Cupboard of Skeletons
Secrets which test and haunt... and those who refuse to be haunted.
Twists in the Tale
Eerie stories of the troubled, the lonely, but places where clouds can, just, have a silver lining.
Mister Kreasey's Demon
Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ?
Titles in the series (2)
- Mister Kreasey's Demon: Let Storm Clouds Pass, #1
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Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ? Mister Kreasey's Demon Visiting his apartment to bring her teacher a long overdue essay, Kreasey noticed : "Amy stood on her very highest heels, the ones that gave her an extra three-and-a-half inches over a world that had always seemed to look down on her beyond the narrow backs streets from which she'd been born. On her first visit, she had seemed almost undernourished, shivering in a short skirt with a slit up the side. He'd wanted to tell her that she'd made him happy - just by appearing on his doorstep with her essay and those eyes... eyes which spoke of deprivation and yet held, for him, openness and simplicity more beautiful than he'd seen in any student before. Amy, alone among his students, had tried to help him. She was searching his eyes, confused. He recalled those moments when, beside him in bed, her face had shared that open comic side of her lovemaking with him. He couldn't forget how much she'd tried to be his passport to those roughnecks from classroom 12D... those who always seemed to be gathering with a hunting knife, getting closer... 'Well, are we going to see you in them?' she smiled, still holding his shorts out like a trophy. But as he watched her lips, they seemed to shape like those in a poorly dubbed film where the voice is out-of-sync with the words... reminding him to 'eat up' all his tablets and then he'd never be 'cut up' . " Editorial Reviews : " An atmospheric, vibrant, almost spooky page-turner and a psychological suspense, both moving and tender. " Reay Tannahill - historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son. " As a former London teacher, Raymond Nickford has nailed the teacher's fear of the 'Lord of the Flies' pack mentality perfectly. And what a cliffhanger ! " Marsha Moore - author of The Hating Game. The author, Raymond Nickford, has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from University College of North Wales. Troubled souls, the lonely, his inspiration. Other Titles Family Tree : Stories of Love Beyond the Grave The body of Eddy's mother was found entangled in fungus-laden roots of the rotting ancient yew on the cemetery side of the family's garden fence. At nights, Eddy stutters, imploring his father to believe that the tree - or is it his mother - seems to call him. Dad just keeps saying "Grief works in strange ways, boy. You'll heal !" But that tree... Mum... calls. Should he sneak out... to the cemetery side? Or had Mum gone to that cold place which Dad kept saying was "Just death by misadventure, Eddy, as the autopsy stated" ? Loss of family and loved ones revealing how, for those left behind, hurt and longing can find resolution - where unexpected. Twists in the Tale Schizophrenic Sam Baldock says he 'hears' Beethoven calling him. For therapy, his doctor and daughter Joanne accompany Sam to the Beethoven Museum in Vienna, once the composer's apartment. Will lonely Joanne, at last, get closer - to her strange Dad ? Aristo's Family Aristo, private museum curator in Paphos, Cyprus, living alone with his son Pavlos, wants to believe he still has surviving family, even though told they were all burned during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. In his preoccupation he has come to to neglect Pavlos. Father and son... or strangers forever ?
- Aristo's Family: Let Storm Clouds Pass, #3
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Why, Pavlos wonders, does his dad dig for family long dead, why his hypnotism, the nausea, that pit of obedience, the next "Greek lesson" ? Aristo's Family Set in Paphos on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. A literary and psychological suspense. Aristo's obsessive need to trace and belong to his family - even though he was told they were all burnt and left unidentifiable during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - has estranged his English wife, and is gradually distancing his only child while, in turn, Pavlos has an increasing need to feel he belongs to a father who will make time for him. As the practices at Papas' late-night museum 'staff meetings' unfold themselves to Pavlos, the boy is led deeper into a sinister confrontation with what Papas calls his 'family', but which brings Pavlos, through the ancient face-masks and relics, to the unquiet souls of Greeks believed to have been thousands of years dead. Both a father's and a son's need to belong, so long mutually exclusive, so long tested. Aristo's Family reflects the author's fascination, in all his books, with studies of troubled, lonely or dysfunctional characters in family life and other relationships who may find that, ultimately, clouds can have a 'silver lining'. If the end to a story is not happy - in the sentimental sense - then the book as a whole, just as Nature planned it, should be affirmative of life, uplifting. Other books of family life, psychological and literary suspense by Raymond Nickford A Child from the Wishing Well A father suffering paranoia fights mental illness to reach out to his lonely daughter. Shortlisted for the Harper Collins ( Authonomy ) Gold Star award May 2010 Sunday Times bestselling author, Barbara Erskine, comments in the Preface " Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing... " Cupboard of Skeletons Secrets which test and haunt... and those who refuse to be haunted. Twists in the Tale Eerie stories of the troubled, the lonely, but places where clouds can, just, have a silver lining. Mister Kreasey's Demon Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ?
Raymond Nickford
Raymond Nickford has said "To me, people are stranger than fiction and in many ways more fascinating."Perhaps this is what first led him to his degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University College of North Wales and which has subsequently driven him to produce searching character studies in his collected stories "Twists in The Tale", novels and contributions to anthologies in the USA.AUTHOR WEBSITE:http://raymondnickford-psychologicalsuspense.weebly.comOf his novel based in Cyprus, "Aristo's Family," Barbara Erskine, best selling author of "Lady of Hay" has commented on the "beautifully observed characters," the "intriguing and atmospheric scenes," and above all the suspense which made her "want to read on".Part Greek Cypriot, the author was raised amongst Greeks in England and has travelled extensively through Cyprus. He has particular admiration for the village people whose company and hospitality he has enjoyed so much in the Troodos Mountains.Though people may be stranger than fiction, still, souls - particularly troubled ones, the outsider, the lonely and any driven to extremity –have been indispensable for Raymond's paperback novels, "Aristo's Family," "Mister Kreasey's Demon" and "Twists in the Tale".Raymond believes that his teaching of English in colleges and as a private tutor visiting pupils from "shacks to mansions" and seeing the "absolutely delightful to the vaguely Little Lord Fauntleroy" has informed his latest literary thriller "A Child from the Wishing Well."This features an eerie music tutor, her young pupil Rosie and Rosie's paranoid and inept father, Gerard, who nevertheless yearns to mean more to his daughter.The E-book version of "A Child from the Wishing Well" is now published and available to buy.MEET THE AUTHOR:susansbooks37.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/meet-the-author-raymond-nickford/FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/raymond.nickford25REVIEWSCandace Bowen - author of A Knight of Silence, has written:“Growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the first scary movie I remember seeing was the 1965 Bette Davis movie, The Nanny. To this day, that movie has always stuck with me as one of the great psychological thrillers of all time.For me, A Child from the Wishing Well, by Raymond Nickford, is reminiscent of that movie. Ruth, the eerie music tutor, and Gerard strap you in, and take you on a psychological thrill-ride to the very end.”Stephen Valentine - author of Nobody Rides for Free, comments:"The author gives great voice to his characters, describing well their idiosyncrasies. A good story must either go deep or wide, and with his background in psychology he goes deep within the human condition. For some adults, the ability to relate to a child does not come naturally, and requires enormous if not awkward effort. This is an often overlooked subject worth exploring."Raven Clark - author of The Shadowsword Saga says:"Raymond Nickford has a writing voice that has to be one of the most unique and intriguing I have come across.The story is both enjoyable and oddly chilling, all the more so for its apparent warmth. The pleasantness of Ruth and her liveliness should seem gentle, grandmotherly and appealing, a sweet old lady one could adore, but reading the trailer, what seems kindly suddenly turns sinister, her upbeat excitability oddly macabre.Each time she says lines like "Our Rosie," and speaks so excitedly, rather than hearing a pleasant old lady, I think of a bird screeching. Fingers down a blackboard.Will Gerard realize what he feels is not a symptom of his disease?And if not, will Heather uncover the truth and save Rosie before the hurricane that is Ruth sweeps her into oblivion?"Raymond confesses to a passion for plump, docile tabbies and is moved by the music and life of the composer Edward Elgar; his interest leading him each year to a cottage in the Malvern Hills and to the Three Choirs Festival. He is a member of the Elgar Society.He is currently working on another psychological suspense," Prey to Her Madonna". Here, the author says, "the intrigue moves between Madeira, an eerie French shrine, an English village and London".
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