FOLK
Velocity Press
(2025)



Folk was always more than a youth group for Mark: it’s where he belongs, and where the friendships that have made him were forged. Straight talking Anna; beautiful, brilliant Zee; and Seb, who’s in a real band.

But when Gerry, the group’s self-proclaimed ‘thorn in the side of the establishment’ leader tasks him to take a new member under his wing, Mark’s world goes into a spin. Who is this ‘Jason’ guy with his tracksuits, beats and chemical drugs? And why is everyone so in awe of him? Jason just isn’t ‘Folk’.

Then a wild camping trip brings Jason’s fresh start to an abrupt end – and with it the collapse of Folk. Yet moving on turns out to be complicated.

Set against a backdrop of DIY sound systems and tectonic shifts in society, FOLK is a bittersweet 1990s coming-of-age tale of friendship, fidelity and finding your own path.
 
Preorders available soon via Velocity Press︎︎︎

An earlier draft of the novel was longlisted for the 2023 McKitterick Prize, awarded by British Society of Authors for a first novel by a writer aged 40 or over.