Trust Harrison, by Nick Cowen

With retirement beckoning on the near horizon, recession weary public rights officer Victor Wayland has the Friday afternoon of his working life disrupted by the appearance of the uninvited Harrison, a young and streetwise volunteer. The local authority is on its knees, but can the blank-faced and enigmatic Harrison really be the saviour of our public rights of way, and what is it about Harrison and dogs? Trust Harrison is a tale of both hopelessness and hope; a call to arms and damnation by fiscal austerity. Surprising and insightful, this first volume is only the beginning of the journey; the first leg, the foothills . . . setting off.

2016, 217pp paperback, £7.95, ISBN 978-1-906978-34-1