This image is the cover for the book The Aquarium

The Aquarium

The Aquarium is a collection of poetry documenting thelivesof an aristocratic British couple in the middle of the 20th Century.Told in twoparts, we firstmeetCharles; aged, crippled and left alone in his crumbling stately home –reflecting on hislifeand his marriage to beautiful Alice, who wemeetinparttwo.


The Aquarium moves throughthe decades, across this life and the next. Interweaving themes of grief, loss, after-life, mental illness, duty, and the true nature of love.

Hamish Sturgeon

Hamish Sturgeon is a British writer, actor and teacher now based in Los Angeles. Acting credits range from major TV shows like SWAT for CBS, Moving On & Hank Zipzer for the BBC and feature films Flight World War II and American Boogeywoman. Theatre credits include Twelfth Night, Closer and Time and the Conways. Hamish recently completed the screenplay The Night Anonymous. The Aquarium is his first poetry collection.

Austin Macauley Publishers