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RA Williams is the author of the Gothic fiction trilogy THE GIFT. Keep up to date on the latest news regarding RA’s, appearances, musings and release dates for THE GIFT trilogy here.
Book 1: Eleanor, is available from 9 December in hardcover and eBook. Book 2: Balthasar drops 17 November 2022. Book 3: Ascension available October 2023.
Stop in frequently for updated full colour maps from THE GIFT trilogy, the occasional character exposé, location choices, odds & sods over on the author’s blog, his historical musings, fascination with 80’s Punk and New Wave and maybe a few snaps of his cats.
The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she follows him down to the hold and finds him leaning over an open sarcophagus surrounded by mutilated bodies. She catches but a glimpse of what lies within before she’s sucked into a maelstrom of freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. Elle is pulled out of the water, but the stranger – and the secrets she stumbled upon – are lost. Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift. …
“Audacity, authorial panache, and a quasi-forensic diligence, saturate the eldritch, often wondrously grisly pages of RA Williams’ first installment in his The Gift Trilogy. Book1: Eleanor is a cleverly executed and thoroughly absorbing, if complex, Megillah which romps along at a zesty pace despite its narrative having to chart a wildly disparate catena of epochs, events, and ideologies.”
Paul Spalding Mulcock, Features Editor, Yorkshire Times
News & Views
The Morning Cuppa: Atelier 9.0
Posted on November 30, 2025
November 28th 2025 It’s the morning after Thanksgiving and I’m posting for the first time from the new atelier in Florida. This is the blog post I’ve been wanting to write for years and years. Be it for good or bad I’ve had numerous moves over the decades and with …
12th Summer
Posted on November 26, 2025
RA beside a very old door in Eindhoven City Centre from when folks were just a little bit more slight ‘Safe and inbound,’ as Simon Le Bon once did sing. Daiana and I have arrived to the States. The settling in requires us a few days, what with a 4 …
The Morning Cuppa: Return to its Gilded Age
Posted on September 3, 2024
Monday, 2 September 2024 It’s Labour Day in the States. Always this day has marked the end of summer in Michigan. In Spain the first Monday after the end of August also marks the end of summer. August holidays are over and with it the holiday makers who vanish in …