Nick Taussig was born in 1973. He lives in London. He
studied literature and philosophy at the University of
Durham, where he obtained a First, then went on to acquire
a Master's in Russian literature from the University of
London. Love and Mayhem was his first novel, published in
2005. His second novel, Don Don, was published in 2007. His
third, Gorilla Guerrilla , will be published in 2008. He
has also co-written a feature film, Just Left of Heaven,
which is due to star Peter Mullan, Timothy Spall, Sean
Harris and John Hurt, and executive produced a documentary
film, Taking Liberties, which is due to open in UK cinemas
in June 2007.
Books
SYNOPSIS
The novel tells the story of the love affair between Jack
Stoltz and Catherine Ramirez. A rather shy, intense and
introspective man, his desire for her is strong and abrupt. She,
his opposite, is wild, sensual and mercurial.
Theirs is an obsessive love, ardent and intense while
dangerously self-destructive in its all-consuming design.
When at last their love is realised, it exists as a
delicate and fragile entity, constantly threatening to be
consumed by its own intensity and their own deeply buried
but explosive anxieties.
Jack's encounter with a destitute and desperate stranger -
a man who believes there's no purpose in looking for love
in a selfish, violent and hypocritical world - threatens to
destroy not only Jack and Catherine's love for one another
but their very identities.
SYNOPSIS
DON DON is the story of two very different men who live on opposite sides of the globe:
Don Holmes, a brash and bullish American millionaire with a formidable appetite for
self-gratification and excess; and Ajahn Dohn, a wise and noble Thai Buddhist monk who
lives a life of compassion and restraint. On the same day, during the same hour, in the
same minute both men are told that they are dying, that they have, at best, just one
year left to live. The question is, what will they do now that they know?
