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Only Forward

Michael Marshall Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:7th May '15

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Michael Marshall Smith’s surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield.

May we introduce you to Stark.

Oh, and by the way — good luck.

Stark is the private investigator who goes to work when Something Happens to you. And when a Something happens it’s no good chanting ‘go away go away go away’ and cowering in a corner, because a Something always comes from your darkest past and won’t be beaten until you face it. And that’s not easy in a city where reality is twisting and broken, a world in which friends can become enemies in a heartbeat — and where your most secret fear can become a soul-shredding reality.

And the worst of it is, for this nightmare you don’t even have to be asleep…

Considered a modern classic, and consistently featured in lists of Books To Read Before Your Head Explodes, ONLY FORWARD is a novel you'll never forget.

‘A major work indeed’
TODAY

‘Smith delivers that rarest of commodities: a genuinely new twist with a punchline of CRYING GAME proportions’
TIME OUT

‘No one writes better than Smith about love…No one writes better about being wasted … Nigh-on unique.’ i-D

ISBN: 9780008117443

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 230g

322 pages