First Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Jan '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'First Novel is absolutely at the forefront of everything I've read in British fiction over the last couple of years.' Jonathan Coe
Paul Kinder, a novelist with one forgotten book to his name, teaches creative writing in a university in the north-west of England.
Either you'll laugh, or you'll cry.
Or maybe both.
Paul Kinder, a novelist with one forgotten book to his name, teaches creative writing in a university in the north-west of England.
Either he's researching his second, breakthrough novel, or he's killing time having sex in cars.
Either eternal life exists, or it doesn't.
Either you'll laugh, or you'll cry.
Or maybe both.
Ingeniously twisted… expertly draws us into the unpredictable labyrinth of the protagonist’s mind, and is seldom less than grimly compelling… Exerts a pleasingly icy grip -- Trevor Lewis * Sunday Times *
Hugely impressive and entertaining -- Anthony Cummins * Sunday Telegraph *
This is a finely honed work of sophisticated gaming that flirts with truth; yet it never forgets that it's also a plot-driven fiction -- Philip Womack * Daily Telegraph *
If writing about creative writing is to risk a novel eating itself, we can be thankful that a writer of Royle’s skills put himself in charge of the banquet -- Gerard Woodward * Guardian *
An intricate story with an unsettlingly noirish effect -- Lucy Scholes * Observer *
ISBN: 9780099575245
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 213g
304 pages