Joe Hartwell Author

The catalogue

Books

Three novels. One of them is finished, ready and looking for readers; the other two came first.

The current book

Cover of All God’s Kids by Joe Hartwell: three couples with their babies standing outside a stone church on a grey afternoon.
Forthcoming

Contemporary drama · Crime and courtroom · Adult readers

Three couples find their lives entwined as they each face social and sexual dilemma.

Bridget Rawnsley has spent twenty years building a life she is proud of. In the space of a single night, someone takes it apart, and what grows out of the wreckage is the child she had almost stopped hoping for.

Length
94,627 words
Category
Contemporary fiction
Readership
Adult
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Earlier novels

Discover Hunted Down and The Sacred Claim, Joe Hartwell’s two earlier novels.

Cover of Hunted Down by Joe Hartwell: a red fox sitting beneath a tree at the edge of a wood, watching riders in red coats and a pack of hounds gather on the fields beyond.
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Hunted Down

Fiction

Farley Fox tells his own story. He’s being hunted down, but the hunt saboteurs come to his rescue. Afterwards, Farley and his friends set out to discover what lies behind the hunting – What have the foxes done to deserve having their families torn apart?

A friendly terrier and a group of domestic cats help find the answers. Meanwhile another hunt is on its way. Farley alone must make a decision. With the ultimate sacrifice can he ensure the safety of his family . . ?

And past events still haunt him. It’s time to make amends.

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Cover of The Sacred Claim by Joe Hartwell: a crow perched on the peak of a wooden barn under a stormy sky, with a bright light shining through a crack in the boards.
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The Sacred Claim

Fiction

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, a 70-year-old priest and an Atheist police inspector find their lives entwined as news of the girl’s claim spreads.

That she is pregnant is enough to leave her strict Catholic parents in shock, but that she claims to still be a virgin, and has been visited by an Angel, leaves her friends bemused.

And that she will give birth to The Second Son of God ?

The priest believes it’s true, the police inspector does not. There are others who don’t know what to believe but they’re not taking any chances. The Satanists set out with one objective . .

There follows scenes reminiscent of over 2000 years ago. At all costs, the child must not be born . . .

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