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THE BANKRUPTCY DIARIES
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STARLINGS
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ABSOLUTION
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THE DISCIPLES: A NOVEL FOR THE APOCALYPSE
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STRANGER IN TAIWAN
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It’s the year 2000 and Paul Livingson is in his first office job in Bristol. With student debts hanging over him, Paul still wants to live the high life: holidays in Europe, booze-fuelled nights of excess, designer fashions. But how to do it all? Easy! More credit! An entertaining, honest and thought-provoking book about escaping the lethal capitalist addiction to debt and finding life over the bankruptcy rainbow.
Starlings is a daisy-chain novel set in Brighton. Andy, a paedophile, his old neighbor May, Andy’s mother and her transgender lover, May’s absent husband, the parents of abducted children, the drug dealer down the hall… Like the starlings swarming the skies above, these characters dance around each other until the final shattering climax when the destinies of Andy and May are revealed.
Mohammed Sharif is a Kashmiri geologist and devout Muslim, Daniel Hutten is a Jewish gemstone expert in New York, Christian Childe is a trader in Bangkok. When Sharif meets Christian Childe who knows Daniel Hutten, the three become unlikely allies. But there is a fatwa on Sharif’s head, Daniel is in love with a Palestinian woman and the world will not let them be. A densely researched thriller, coursing at high speed from the prep schools of England to the jungles of Burma and the gem dealers of New York. A book about terrorism and fundamentalism in all their forms.
Set in a fractured and nightmarish cityscape, a quartet of demented and cultish psychopaths embark on a nocturnal ‘Bull Run’, an increasingly savage and surreal road trip undertaken at the behest of a mysterious figure known as ‘the Meister’, also called the ‘Lord Baron of Pain’. Spanning a single night, the road trip spirals downward into a morass of bizarre pit stops, necrophilia and ritualized slaughter. As the subtitle suggests, The Disciples is a ‘novel for the apocalypse’, a narrative that mingles humor and violence in a prolonged, delirious danse macabre.
Hartley is a young man who meets and falls in love with Anita, a Taiwanese girl studying EFL at a school in Cheltenham where he works as a teacher trainer. Despite subjecting her to a surprising new way to learn English, hiding in the staffroom for several days, then accidentally getting into a discussion on breasts, they hit it off. The book then focuses on Hartley’s getting to grips with Taiwanese culture, which he never does. We see him take several trips around the island, try to teach in a local High School, and puzzle over his miserable failure to ask Anita’s father for her hand in marriage. After a brief interlude in China which is supposed to be a relaxing holiday, Hartley finally joins the British Council and attempts to assimilate more into Taiwanese society while deepening his relationship with Anita to the point where she feels too much pity to attempt escape.POSTAGE & PACKING
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