Shoulder-up portrait shot, Adrian is a white person with short blonde, salt and pepper hair, wearing a blue oxford shirt with one button undone. He is looking directly into the camera without smiling. Credit: Ed Walsh

Adrian Markle

Originally from British Columbia, Adrian Markle teaches creative writing at Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK, where he lives with his partner, the writer Eleanor Walsh. Adrian has published numerous short stories and has recently returned to practicing martial arts. Bruise is his first novel.

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Cover image for the novel Bruise by Adrian Markle. The background is a textured white and there is an indented crack in the middle of the page, the size of a fist. At the top of the page it reads, “Bruise is light on its feet, compelling and driven.” Wyl Menmuir, Book-longlisted author of The Draw of the Sea in a small, thin, black serif font. The title, “Bruise” is written in black, bold, all-caps, sans serif and is embedded into the cracks, the author’s name “Adrian Markle” is below in a smaller, red, sans serif font, and below that it reads, “A Novel” in smaller, thinner, black, sans serif font. Book cover is by David Drummond of Salamander Hill Design.
Bruise
Adrian Markle