The Work
The work published under Scrzimshaw House Press is literary fiction concerned with consciousness, identity, memory, and transformation.
These are not fast-paced thrillers designed for distraction. They are psychologically driven narratives that unfold gradually, rewarding attentive reading and emotional patience.
The stories explore interior lives shaped by forces that are often unexplained—time distortions, psychic intrusion, moral ambiguity, and the quiet terror of becoming someone else.
This is fiction that trusts the reader.
Fish lived there: shining spikes of silver, darting in the depths where green weed swayed like mermaids’ tresses in the current, as the glass-bright rush of water combed and brushed them tirelessly. Other inputs were from towns; brown and sometimes black with industrial waste, depressingly dead and smelling foul, two generalisations which approximately describe the main contributory types, dividing them into either the delightful or the disgusting. But the river image does little justice to the sheer variety and scope of the impressions then bearing down on the boy. His inner world was terrifyingly alive, and yet it never occurred to him that he might share this world with anyone else.
A psychologically charged coming-of-age narrative set in post-war London. Part I introduces Nathan Scrzimshaw, a young man whose inner life is invaded by forces he does not understand — distortions of time, consciousness, and identity that quietly fracture reality.
Part II carries Nathan Scrzimshaw beyond post-war London into a wider and more dangerous world.
Set largely in Australia and at sea, the narrative deepens its exploration of psychic displacement, moral manipulation, and the cost of transformation. What was once private becomes observed, exploited, and controlled.
As identities blur and power shifts, Nathan is forced to confront what survives when memory, body, and will are no longer his own.
