With Randall, the jury is still out. Tales of his own life are as strange as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Randall is a legend in his own front room, a holy drinker…tender, belligerent, a contradiction…these fifteen exceptional, highly original short stories come pounding out of a violent, unique, depraved mind…you cannot read tales of magic suits, demonic factories, and deformed hands and ever come away the same again.

Hands was long-listed for the RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2015.

***** – David Willis, Beatdom Magazine

Randall '…is an intriguing writer who kept me entranced from start to finish. His writing style is bold, intense, disturbing, thought provoking, and very descriptive, with strong imagery.’
- Cindy Taylor, AllBooks Review

'Tales of Ordinary Sadness' is a fantastic collection of stories that will shock, challenge and delight. The writing is so perceptive it's almost unnerving. 5 out of 5 stars from me
- Rowena Wiseman, Author of The Replacement Wife, Harper Collins

People call round to Randall’s apartment – too few to mention really – and bellow drunkenly through the intercom, telling him that A Fancy Dress Party at a Russian Lunatic Asylum ruined their marriages. An out-of-work ventriloquial voice agent in a pink off-the-shoulder leotard comes over with a shaved monkey on his shoulder…to which he gives the occasional lick. A luckless trapeze artist with alopecia in its advanced stages sends Randall pictures of graves with his name carved into each marble headstone. The writer corresponds with a clinically depressed vulcanizer who lives on the Mirijevski Venac. He’s offered to help Randall adapt his life story into a screenplay. A disgraced somnambulist comes to his door at least twice a week: ‘I read your latest story on a men’s room wall, and I think I can help you. I used to be a perform chemical castrations for the communists’. Randall gives him a generous ten dinars for his trouble and thanks him for his time. You have been warned…