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Nicholas Royle is the author of six previous novels, including The Director's Cut and Antwerp, as well as two novellas and a short story collection, Mortality. Born in Manchester in 1963, he runs Nightjar Press, reviews fiction for the Independent, and is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. He divides his time between Manchester and London.<b>Ingeniously twisted</b>… expertly draws us into the unpredictable labyrinth of the protagonist’s mind, and is seldom less than<b> grimly compelling… Exerts a pleasingly icy grip</b>
- Trevor Lewis, Sunday Times
<b>Hugely impressive and entertaining</b>
- 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 <b>unsettlingly noirish</b> effect
- Lucy Scholes, Observer
Dead clever and occasionally macabre… Intricately plotted, proper wince-inducing stuff… <b>A cutting-edge, vital new British novel for now</b>
- Stuart Hammond, Dazed & Confused
Highly recommended… <i>First Novel </i>is a clever book, but as well as having brains it has guts: it begins slowly but soon acquires the characteristics of a thriller, and the ending is a revelation
- Simon Baker, Spectator
Only a man with prodigious talent, not to mention a capacity for multi-tasking, would even attempt a book of such monumental ambition… Far too good to be a debut. Which, of course, it isn’t.This is a novel that demands to be read more than once.
- Gavin James Bower, Independent
I began by simply enjoying the novel and ended up being thrilled, horrified, disturbed. <i>First Novel</i> is absolutely at the forefront of everything I’ve read in British fiction over the last couple of years.
- Jonathan Coe,
A crafty puzzler that folds the Shipman murders into the tale of a no-mark writing tutor with a fetish for car sex under the Manchester flight path.
- Anthony Cummins, Evening Standard
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.
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.