About me: I write books. I also started and still work for Big Dada Recordings. My first book was called "Clear Water" and is out now in paperback. It had some quite good reviews and some not-so-good reviews and you can read the edited highlights of 'em here.
My new book is called "The Heritage" and it will be published by Faber on March 4th 2008. Here's the blurb:
"Fifteen-year-old Tilly meets Sadie at a Young Offenders Institute and the two girls decide to live together on their release. Settling in a bedsit in Kent, they devote their energy to smoking, drinking and thieving. But when sinister landlady and social worker Lynda comes to take DNA swabs - purportedly for a major scientific investigation into the roots of criminal behaviour - their idyll is shattered. For a joke, Tilly swaps the samples round, setting in motion a gripping story of mistaken identity and corporate malice.
"Set in a Britain not too different from our own and filled with shoplifting, shadowy revolutionaries, alcopops, sperm banks, genetics, the agonies of adolescence and a lot of cigarettes, THE HERITAGE is a funny, gritty, strange and moving exploration of love, friendship and identity from a truly singular imagination."
So there.
Who I'd like to meet: People who like reading books, people who like reading my books, people who think they might like reading my books, people who don't like reading books but like buying them, people who don't like reading my books but like buying them and, oh, I think you get the picture.
Hi there! We're holding a competition at SUPERSWEET and you could win an exhibition at Beyond Retro as part of their East End Lights series + a month’s worth of exposure on our digital Art Gallery in Feb 2010. Click on the banners if you're interested in finding out more!
My debut novel, The Cuckoo Parchment and the Dyke, has just launched. If you get a chance I'd be grateful if you'd go to my profile to find out more. The story's about Dada, art and artists, and the attempt to instigate revolution by means of art.
Hi Will! It's your favourite italian translator here. How's everything? Since you played a part in pushing me towards Italian, I just wanted to send you the link to my first "no-budget" LP, in Italian, released on a Creative Commons license, and downloadable for free as a .torrent file. Enjoy if you have time (of course you don't have time, but that's another story)
Not to be down on the big man Eggleston... but 30 odd years is a looong time to take to print up a dozen or so photographs, better off buying his book in my mind.
Thanks for being a friend of Beat the Dust, the new space for writers with 'kiss my shades' attitude to flex their literary muscle and for discerning readers who see reading as exercise. Why not submit some poetry, a short story or a piece of flash fiction. To view the website and download a print version of the submission guidelines, click here.
well... I've managed to squeeze in a visit already. Bit of an inspiration to me, so he is... d'you think you'll be up north to pay homage yourself? as I'm pretty sure you'll know, there's a bit of a book festival in Edinburgh at the moment too. BigUps! Ross
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