Welcome to my author site. Here you’ll find my debut novel, Eva Moonbright and The Skyborn War, alongside the art and influences that shaped it. Thank you for visiting.
Eva Moonbright has spent her life believing she is the problem.
Misunderstood by her family and haunted by experiences she cannot explain, she has learned to make herself smaller, easier to ignore. Then the impossible begins to notice her. A dog follows her home. The sea seems to know her. The dead offer advice. And somewhere beyond the ordinary world, an ancient gate is waiting. Drawn into a conflict she barely understands, Eva is surrounded by those who offer pieces of the truth—but no one who possesses all of it. And as the danger reaches from the clouds to the sea, she must decide whom to trust, and how far mercy can reach when certainty has run out. Because Eva was never made to fit the life she has been trying to survive. The world is much larger than she knew.
Published by Wildlight Books
About me
I am a writer and artist. Before turning to books, I spent much of my creative life as an oil painter, exhibiting my work in London. Eva Moonbright and the Skyborn War is my debut novel. I live in Warwickshire with my wife, Gail, and our rescued animals.
Previous Publications
Cowbells on the Kill Floor: Veganism, Legacy and the End of the Old Worldwas Hamish Blakey's debut book.
Non-fiction, it gathers the full argument for global veganism: ethical, ecological, nutritional, historical and philosophical. It dismantles the myths that sustain animal exploitation and challenges the cultural habits that normalise harm. From the comforting fantasy of 'humane slaughter' to the marketing of ‘sustainable meat,’ Blakely exposes the contradictions that lie beneath one of the most destructive legacies of human history. This work does not simply defend veganism—it obliterates the ideology that resists it. Blending science and lived experience, Blakely argues that ending animal exploitation is not a marginal concern but a central ethical task, one bound up with justice, sustainability, and the future our children will inherit. With intellectual precision and moral urgency, Cowbells on the Kill Floor shows how denial and inherited myths have shaped our world, and how they can be undone. It offers no illusions of comfort, but it does offer hope: that a more honest relationship with animals, and with ourselves, can build a different world, one that no child will ever have to justify.
‘Urgent, informed, and morally clear. Blakely challenges us to face what we’ve been taught to ignore—with a voice that speaks to our need for compassion, coherence, and change.’— Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., author of The Emotional Lives of Animals
