Fray: The haunting and mysterious new literary suspense novel of 2023, for fans of bestsellers THE LONEY and PINE

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There are interesting reflections on man’s interaction and alienation from the natural world, alienation from self and others.

The cottage floor and the few pieces of furniture are covered in scraps of paper in what he takes to be his father’s handwriting. But I think if, if at any point in our lives, we introduce some running to it, that's going to make things better. Equally, if on any given day, I'm struggling or my anxiety is sparking or I'm just feeling grey and depressed and overwhelmed for whatever reason, then 10 or 20 minutes of running will not fix it, but it will make it better. The problem is that the same word also attached to people who may have extreme anxiety conditions that will totally derail their lives. Does this mean the father is alive, or that some other person or strange being is at hand, playing a nasty and frightening trick on the narrator?And I've always used both of them in different but complementary ways to manage my mental health – to manage challenges that I have with anxiety, all of which is linked to being autistic, which is not something I knew about until a year or two ago. I was talking recently about Haruki Murakami – I really love his running book [ What I Talk About When I Talk About Running] .

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The times of my life when I’m running, I'm happier and healthier, suffer fewer mental health problems. But one thing that I knew before I was doing that all this stuff is I have to run in the morning, before I go, as a way of managing my anxiety in advance. There's a wonderful community waiting to welcome you to parkrun or to clubs or whatever it might be.

An unnamed protagonist suffers a double bereavement when their mother dies and their father goes missing in the Scottish Highlands, distracted with grief at the death of his wife. And it was a bit grey, a bit wet, but normal – not terrible weather conditions, and it wasn't forecast to be either. I was going up this mountain route – it's not a race that's run anymore, but there used to be a vertical kilometre race out of Kinlochleven, about 5km along but 1km straight up [in elevation gain]. I have just been focusing on enjoying it actually, because I have a terrible habit of overdoing it or getting injured or just kind of being a bit over enthusiastic with training too hard.