https://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/author/paul-stanbridge     Paul Stanbridge grew up in Essex, and went on to study literature at the universities of Reading and Manchester. After failing to tolerate working as a pensions administrator, bookseller, receptionist, waiter, archival catalogue editor, chef, barman, ministerial drafter, learning mentor and builder, Paul moved to Norwich, had children, and wrote a doctoral thesis examining creative method in literary modernism. Since then, he has divided his working time between music and writing. Space Eagle, his one-man blues band, has attracted a following of at least several dozen people in Norfolk. His other band, Erroneous Monk, arranges the songs of Thelonious Monk for a modern jazz quintet. Paul is currently working on a novel which will in some way involve Charley Patton, the European refugee crisis, and witches in 17th Century England. Forbidden Line is his first novel.     Author photo by Jamie Hammond en https://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/forbidden-line-mass-market-paperback-edition <div class="commerce-product-field commerce-product-field-field-product-image field-field-product-image node-341-product-field-product-image"><div class="field field-name-field-product-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://galleybeggar.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/jackets/ForbiddenLineMassFrontboard.jpg" width="389" height="544" alt="" /></div></div></div></div><div class="commerce-product-field commerce-product-field-commerce-price field-commerce-price node-341-product-commerce-price"><div class="field field-name-commerce-price field-type-commerce-price field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Price:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">£9.99</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product field-type-commerce-product-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><form class="commerce-add-to-cart commerce-cart-add-to-cart-form-166" action="/taxonomy/term/113/feed" method="post" id="commerce-cart-add-to-cart-form-166" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="166" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-JZkOkAYY83Yt8asKGI4YbgItlOVOcSGBePhRQJ_1zA4" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="commerce_cart_add_to_cart_form_166" /> <div id="edit-line-item-fields" class="form-wrapper"></div><input type="submit" id="edit-submit" name="op" value="Add to cart" class="form-submit" /></div></form></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><b>Out now!</b></p> <blockquote><div>“What grips at once is Stanbridge's beautiful, stately, eccentric and richly rewarding prose. He never lets up, never falters…breathtaking, magisterial, uniquely demented and hilarious - a lavish comic masterpiece." <br /><a href="http://davidjcollard.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/forbidden-line-essex-epic.html">David Collard</a></div> <div> </div> <div>“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.”<br /><strong>Giles Foden</strong></div> <div> </div> <div> <div>“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.” </div> <div><strong>Alex Pheby, Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author of Playthings</strong></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>Forbidden Line is a challenging, dazzling intellectual achievement. It’s also a book about love and companionship; a novel simultaneously touching and hilarious. Above everything else, it’s a pleasure to read – even if it makes you feel like you’re on a careering train, with all the stops and destinations rubbed off, and no idea where you’re heading...</p> <p>Forbidden Line is fat, uncompromising and gloriously eccentric. Which is as it should be – since it’s a retelling of Don Quixote combined with a recreation of the Peasant’s Revolt, a gleeful hybrid of science, pseudo-science, absurd theory and profound, ingenious philosophy.</p> <div>Don and Is career around Essex and London, tilting at windmills, abusing petrol station assistants, fighting with each other and everyone around them. They are on a quest – as far as Don is concerned – to reveal the truth about history (he says there's no such thing) and to uncover the secrets of the hyperfine transition of hydrogen... But Is – like most of us – isn’t really sure what Don is talking about. And all he really wants to do is get through to the next day – and back to his family. Both of which turn into extremely tricky propositions. Don takes Is ever deeper into danger and the very structure of reality  begins to turn against them both -  as does the narrative of Forbidden Line itself.</div> <div> </div> <div>There’s never been a book quite like Forbidden Line. Never been anything close. </div> <div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/store/books/author/paul-stanbridge">Paul Stanbridge</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-pages field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Pages:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">474</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date-published field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Published:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">December 2016</span></div></div></div> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:49:55 +0000 jordison 341 at https://galleybeggar.co.uk https://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/forbidden-line-mass-market-paperback-edition#comments https://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/forbidden-line <div class="commerce-product-field commerce-product-field-field-product-image field-field-product-image node-305-product-field-product-image"><div class="field field-name-field-product-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://galleybeggar.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/jackets/Paul-Stanbridge--Forbidden-Line.jpg" width="390" height="544" alt="" /></div></div></div></div><div class="commerce-product-field commerce-product-field-commerce-price field-commerce-price node-305-product-commerce-price"><div class="field field-name-commerce-price field-type-commerce-price field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Price:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">£13.00</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product field-type-commerce-product-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><form class="commerce-add-to-cart commerce-cart-add-to-cart-form-152" action="/taxonomy/term/113/feed" method="post" id="commerce-cart-add-to-cart-form-152" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="152" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-KP1G5P7W02Fbc6caDtAuiEdUqdddb6pN3HubyUEBA1U" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="commerce_cart_add_to_cart_form_152" /> <div id="edit-line-item-fields--2" class="form-wrapper"></div><input type="submit" id="edit-submit--2" name="op" value="Add to cart" class="form-submit" /></div></form></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-description field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><b>Out now!</b></p> <blockquote><div>“What grips at once is Stanbridge's beautiful, stately, eccentric and richly rewarding prose. He never lets up, never falters…breathtaking, magisterial, uniquely demented and hilarious - a lavish comic masterpiece." <br /><a href="http://davidjcollard.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/forbidden-line-essex-epic.html">David Collard</a></div> <div> </div> <div>“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.” <br /><strong>Giles Foden</strong></div> <div> </div> <div> <div>“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.” </div> <div><strong>Alex Pheby, Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author of Playthings</strong></div> </div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <p>Forbidden Line is a challenging, dazzling intellectual achievement. It’s also a book about love and companionship; a novel simultaneously touching and hilarious. Above everything else, it’s a pleasure to read – even if it makes you feel like you’re on a careering train, with all the stops and destinations rubbed off, and no idea where you’re heading...</p> <p>Forbidden Line is fat, uncompromising and gloriously eccentric. Which is as it should be – since it’s a retelling of Don Quixote combined with a recreation of the Peasant’s Revolt, a gleeful hybrid of science, pseudo-science, absurd theory and profound, ingenious philosophy.</p> <div>Don and Is career around Essex and London, tilting at windmills, abusing petrol station assistants, fighting with each other and everyone around them. They are on a quest – as far as Don is concerned – to reveal the truth about history (he says there's no such thing) and to uncover the secrets of the hyperfine transition of hydrogen... But Is – like most of us – isn’t really sure what Don is talking about. And all he really wants to do is get through to the next day – and back to his family. Both of which turn into extremely tricky propositions. Don takes Is ever deeper into danger and the very structure of reality  begins to turn against them both -  as does the narrative of Forbidden Line itself.</div> <div> </div> <div>There’s never been a book quite like Forbidden Line. Never been anything close. </div> <div> </div> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/store/books/author/paul-stanbridge">Paul Stanbridge</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-product-pages field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Pages:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">630</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date-published field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Published:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">November 2016</span></div></div></div> Wed, 04 May 2016 08:33:23 +0000 jordison 305 at https://galleybeggar.co.uk https://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/forbidden-line#comments