About

This is the blog of Graham Wright. I am an author of fiction. While I don’t much like categories, if pressed I would categorise my writing under the general description of literary fiction. My writing is about people and ideas. I aim to write in a style that is relatively easy to understand, but at the same time creative, imaginative and engaging – literary, but not pretentious. I work hard to create plots that will leave readers wanting to know what will happen next, but I’m particularly interested in communicating what my characters are thinking and how they’re feeling, in communicating their emotions and the motivation for their actions, rather than simply describing a series of events.

My latest novel, Shooting at Strangers, is a tightly-plotted drama focussing on a survivor of a terrorist attack in Manchester City centre. Suffering from trauma, as well as survivor guilt, Amber Jennings sets out to discover how Jameel, the intense, rather awkward young man she knew at school could have become a mass murderer. Her investigations bring her own role in her friend’s downfall into stark relief, as she dodges the attentions of both the media and MI5.

My first novel, Single Point Perspective, is set in and around the city of Manchester, where I lived and worked for more than fifteen years. My second, called Moojara, is set in and around the world, but mostly centres on Perth, Western Australia. All three are works of dramatic literary fiction – imaginative, serious and thoughtful, but with a sense of humour.
I’m currently living in north Shropshire, where I’m busy working on novel number four.