Hannah's Books
In Their Absence (Roman Books 2021)
"Terribly beautiful and masterfully alarming stories. They’re part of my life now." - Ana Pipeva
"An accomplished debut... delicate and poignant, quietly unnerving and macabre." - Yvonne Jewkes
"These stories are like jewels, small, but beautifully complex and bright. In them, perhaps we recognise our own secret desire to disappear, as well as the losses we all inevitably experience in life." - Kate Durban
What do you do when somebody walks out of the door and never returns? How do two young parents cope when their toddler disappears from a busy cafe? What happens when life is so unbearable that your only option is to disappear?
In Their Absence is a powerful dissection of what it means to go missing. It explores the human complexities behind the headlines and statistics to reveal unsettling truths about what it is to live in the shadow of absence. These stories lay bare the agony of unknowing for those left behind. And they show us just how easily a human life can disappear.
You can get your copy here.
Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic (Wind&Bones Books 2025)
"Imaginative and profoundly original." - Michelle Kuo
"How exciting, and how necessary!" - Garry MacKenzie
In a Taiwanese temple, a saliva goddess vanishes without trace. A Hogmanay party is disrupted by an unexpected guest. In Taipei, an elderly prophet foretells a subway attack. On the way home from a day in court, a woman finds a sheep tangled in the brambles. Four stories, four writers, four languages: Gaelic, Taiwanese, Mandarin & English.
Get your copy from Wind&Bones Books here.
On The Bodies of Strangers (forthcoming Wind&Bones Books October 2025)
Our lives, our experiences and the people we encounter leave behind indelible marks. On the Bodies of Strangers is a collection of stories about marked lives and marked flesh. The stories in this collection are linked by a single thread: the tattoos of their protagonists, traces of experiences and meaning etched onto their skin.
These are stories about the chaos of ordinary lives, about people who are flawed, complicated, but always deeply human. From domestic abuse to unexpected friendship, mixing horror and hope, intimacies and lies, On the Bodies of Strangers explores the many ways we mark each other and ourselves as we deal with the complexities of human behaviour.