19 December 2016
It's here:
We’ve been working on this book, in various ways, since 2013. And it’s glorious. It’s already picking up wonderful notices. No less than Giles Foden (yes, the author of the The Last King Of Scotland) has said:
“Everyone needs to sit up and take notice of this, which is Don Quixote on acid. It leaves the doughy train of contemporary realist fiction following way behind.”
One of the UK's finest literary critics, the quite brilliant David Collard says:
“What grips at once is Stanbridge's beautiful, stately, eccentric and richly rewarding prose. He never lets up, never falters… It's breathtaking, magisterial, uniquely demented and hilarious - a lavish comic masterpiece.”
And the mighty Alex Pheby says:
“Forbidden Line is a work of enormous scope and ambition from a writer who combines style, wit… and a rare sense of the ridiculousness of the human condition. Incomparable.”
If you've read Playthings. you'll know that's praise.
Just as pleasingly, we've also been getting a lot of feedback from Galley Buddies and others who have already bought and read the book. These discerning readers have variously called it "sublime", "bonkers", "fucking phenomenal" and said "I couldn't stop reading it."
We're looking forward to some of the broadsheet reviews that we know are on their way, and scheduled for the New Year. And we hope you are enjoying it in the meantime. And hey! If you’re yet to have the pleasure, it’s in our shop. Where we’ve also just started stocking these bad boys:
Those are the mass market paperbacks. They cost £9.99 instead of £13. They're beautiful too. If not quite so limited edition lovely. If we sell enough copies, maybe we'll do a run of these too:
Oh yeah!
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