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'This tense thriller is set in Eastern Europe but more particularly in the landscape of the human heart, exploring its darkness and depravity as well as its capacity for love. The excitement builds until it reaches a climax of almost mythic ferocity and power.' —Richard Francis'Keevil's writing is unmissable...quite simply a brilliant writer.' —Viv GroskopAll it takes to change your life is a single moment...A random stabbing on a London bus leaves a young woman widowed and detached from her previous world.Stripped of a future that should have been hers, she impulsively books a trip to Prague – the city where she and her husband got engaged. But in the midst of a bleak winter, isolated and numb, she can do little more than wander the cobbled streets – until she receives an intriguing proposition. There's a job for someone just like her. All she needs to do is pick something up, and drive back. Just once. Only ever once.Stylish and daring, this high-stakes thriller explores what happens when a curve ball skews life out of all recognition.
Four friends. One intensely hot summer of sex, chemical experimentation, shifting loyalties and disillusionment that will change their lives forever. First published September 2010.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2018 'A great, gripping story, ferociously well-written, with characters that live and breathe' STEF PENNEY, bestselling author of Under a Pole Star
A single call from his Czech girlfriend catapults Trevor into a serious crisis. Desperate to get his mojo back, he blazes down Highway 99 in a rented Dodge Neon. But soon his journey to California is fraught with peril, and all he has for protection are a semi-automatic pistol, his trusty plastic visor and a flea-ridden cat. As the drugs and the heartbreak kick in, the question is no longer whether Trevor will get over his girlfriend's infidelity, but whether he'll get out alive. A fast-paced and hilarious contemporary odyssey, told with a searing clarity reminiscent of Willy Vlautin or Patrick de Witt, The Drive has all the adventure and surrealism of Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - but overlaid with heartfelt yearning and hope.
Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey Prize Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. A search-and-rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve; two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend; a reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitcher on his way down Mount Seymour; a young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he works. Written in a lean, muscular style, these are stories awash in blood and brine, and steeped in images of freedom and confinement. Within that narrative framework, Burrard Inlet becomes more than a geographical location: it is a liminal space, a boundary and a barrier, a threshold to be crossed.
A gripping, stylish thriller set in London and Prague, in which a recently widowed young woman embarks on a high-stakes mission involving some truly dangerous people, and finds the road back to meaning and to life from a place of profound grief and shock. If she makes it back.
Winner of the Media Wales Readers' Prize 2011 shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2011 Four friends. One intensely hot summer that will change their lives forever. When a group of hedonistic teenagers save a woman from drowning they become unlikely local heroes, but their celebrity becomes the focus for first envy, then harassment. Fireball takes us through their last summer together, and one that will come to define their future: a summer of sex, chemical experimentation, shifting loyalties and disillusionment.
At Vancouver airport, a distraught young man wanders into a car rental agency, carrying a backpack full of beer and boxer shorts. Trevor is in the midst of a serious crisis. His all-too-comfortable existence as a wannabe filmmaker has been disrupted by a phone call from his Czech girlfriend. In an attempt to get over her, Trevor rents a Dodge Neon and blazes down Highway 99, heading for California. But his journey is fraught with peril, and all he has for protection are a semi-automatic pistol, his trusty plastic visor and a fractious flea-ridden cat.
Fiction, poetry, photography and reportage written and produced by writers, editors and readers of a new generation. Nu showcases young writers in an innovative, experimental and quality anthology. Writers, workers and wanderers from Wales and beyond, the authors provide a stimulating range of narrative.
Every line tells a different story ...