...And also the direct translation into English from an obscure Burmese dialect of the name of a hallucinogenic drug with some extraordinary properties.

Orange Sound may also be the unseen hand behind some extraordinary events taking place in the Northumbrian village of Wet Rain Hill; a place with a very interesting past stretching far back into prehistory.

Samuel Brock, weekend visitor to the village and professor of archaeology, is intrigued by what he has discovered and believes his research is leading somewhere significant...more>

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Orange Sound
(c) C.G. Black
2003 - 2006.
All rights reserved.

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This website attempts to do at least two things:

(1) promote my novel 'Orange Sound'; and,

(2) chart my success, or failure, at having this novel published.
(No submissions yet to any publishers or publishers' agents, and hence zero refusals to date!)

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Orange Sound

A paperback version of 'Orange Sound' is now available from the Orange Sound Shop!

This paperback version (Cafepress) does not yet have an ISBN (i.e. an International Standard Book Number) and may well become a much-valued collector's item in years to come! Now is your opportunity to own a copy.

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Here are some readers' comments about Orange Sound:

I have read the first ten chapters of your novel and would very much like to finish it. I thoroughly enjoyed what I've read so far. It is a combination thriller/suspense/mystery novel with an added touch of the occult/horror/macabre thrown in. Keep up the good work, and I can't wait to read your next novel. (E.S.)

Your story was very interesting, and, I believe, a novel concept.
...it was cohesive and very entertaining. (S.F.)

I enjoyed very much reading your novel Orange Sound (in fact Orange Sound was the first novel I read on [a] web site). (S.H.)

Please email me the password [author's note: a password is now no longer required] so that I can read the rest of your novel. So far it's been very interesting, especially the Thai/British culture fusion. (S.C.).

...How can I read 'Orange Sound'?

You can download and read the entire novel, free of charge.

If you want, you can read the first ten chapters online here:
Chapter 1; Chapter 2
Chapter 3; Chapter 4
Chapter 5; Chapter 6
Chapter 7; Chapter 8
Chapter 9; Chapter 10

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You can download the rest of the book in the same way as chapters 1 - 10. Chapters 11 - 32 are grouped in one file, and chapters 33 - 47 are in another. Again, you can choose either PDF or MS Word format.

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Northumberland
Heatherland and bent land
Black land and white
God bring me to Northumberland
The land of my delight
Land of singing waters
And words from off the sea
God bring me to Northumberland
The land where I would be
Heather land and bent land
And valley rich with corn
God bring me to Northumberland
The land where I was born.

by Wilfrid Gibson (1878 - 1962).(Born at Battle Hill, Hexham).

...where at some point decided by man, England meets Scotland.

From the top of Menzie's Hill, looking northwards, the village of Wet Rain Hill stands out against the backdrop of the Cheviot Hills where at some point decided by man England meets Scotland.

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...She gazed out onto the snow-covered hills.

In the rapidly failing light of late afternoon, the view resembled that of the landscape of an alien planet whose desolate surface was sparingly warmed by a dim and distant sun.

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...Silhouetted like mythical creatures in a Balinese shadow play.

...he drew back the curtains on his dormer bedroom, and looked out into the night towards Bell Hollow. Silhouetted like mythical creatures in a Balinese shadow play, he saw them moving on Wet Rain Hill; they were carrying the church bell

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<Updated: December 22, 2005> to Orange Sound … a strange but beautiful collision of words; a contradiction of the senses...