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A
TOM
BULLOUGH
"Immensely
enjoyable . . . almost unbearably tense"
The Guardian
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A
FRESH AND EXCITING DEBUT NOVEL.
In an attic in Southwest London, an acid factory has just been
dismantled. Six students, among them the luminously sexy Belle,
are speeding in a decommissioned ambulance towards a tiny cottage
in the Welsh borders. Two homicidal drug dealers and one middle-aged
police inspector are giving chase.
Meanwhile, Belle’s jilted lover Angus stares out of his
cottage window at shadows sliding across the grassy hillside,
listens to squirrels fidgeting in the eaves and turns his thoughts
to a squadron of young Japanese pilots, setting out from a Kyushu
airstrip in 1945 intent on restarting the Second World War.
And
that’s just the beginning...
In
this fresh and exciting debut novel, Tom Bullough brilliantly
combines the best rites-of-passage storytelling with the helter-skelter
adroitness of a road movie.
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 Tom
Bullough,
age 26, grew up on a Welsh hill farm. He has worked as a music promoter
in Zimbabwe and as a firewood deliveryman in Wales.
Sort Of Books were originally
going to publish a travel book by Tom but when they read this debut
novel, written on leaving university, they changed tack entirely.
Read it and see why. |
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Exciting
debut
by talented young author. Sort of Books' first foray into fiction.
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"Energy,
humour and a roller-coaster plot are more than some debut novelists
manage but 26-year-old Tom Bullough hits all three bull’s-eyes
with A."
Financial
Times
"A
provides the ecstasy of youth culture without the hangover."
Sarah Britton, Streaker
"A thoroughly good debut novel . . . the plot is strong and
gripping, and the characters are so meticulously developed that,
in the end, even bit-part characters will stay in your mind."
Richard Collie, The Courier
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Pub
date June 6th 2002
Launched
at Hay Literary Festival
ISBN 0-9535227-6-8 |
Price
£6.99
Format B-paperback (130 x
198)
Extent 240pp (B Format) |
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