Dear friends, acquaintances and possibly interested bystanders,
My new novel is now available from Shearsman Books, Amazon etc. and through your local bookshop. Apologies if you receive this notice more than once.
With best wishes,
John Muckle
MY PALE TULIP
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2012/muckleMPT.html
There wasn't much to do in the battered, half-forgotten seaside resort of Jaywick Sands, Essex—nothing really, except to listen to the North Sea pound against the sea-defences and wait for the next run-down holiday shack to go up like a barbeque torch. Lee and Will were an odd pair, deeply eccentric kids, living alone with their mothers and struggling through resit classes in college. But all that was to change on the day they kidnapped Charley Price in an old motor they'd just stolen, and made a heroic run with her for the ferry to the far land where the tulips grow.
My Pale Tulip takes a scenic route across low countries to the beautiful cities of Delft and Utrecht - where darkness lies in ambush. It is a classic tale of flight and crash-landing: poignant, sharp-witted, with a voice all its own.
Praise for LONDON BRAKES
"A wonderfully intense novel."
Shokry Eldaly, Sixers Review
"A beautiful novel ... achieves the seemingly impossible feat of being gritty, whimsical, and lyrical all at once. You can read it quickly, as a fun book to while away the time, or slowly, as a work of art to savour and contemplate. Muckle's writing displays a wonderful intelligence ... Absorbing, surprising, all-around wonderful."
Sandra Newman, author of How Not to Write a Novel
"Combines the moving sense of 'thereness' you might expect in the poetry of Charles Reznikoff ... with the illusions and plotting of a Paul Auster novel and the geographical accuracy of Iain Sinclair."
Ian Brinton, Eyewear
"Straight to Green!" John Berger
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