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Joe Gotham

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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

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Mirror In The Sky (Being A Tale of Fantastic Araby)
Mirror In The Sky (B....
Nick Poole
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The Destiny of Half Lives
The Destiny of Half Lives....
Laxmi Hariharan
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LYING TO GOD
LYING TO GOD
Ian Gosling
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Zen Guys Go Euro

 

Zen Guys Go Euro
Joe Gotham
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Zen Guys Go Euro

Joe Gotham

An Irish Sikh and a South African air guitarist attempt to stop an assassin from killing a rapper on his European tour.


Zen Guys Go Euro is a comedic action epic set in India and Europe. The two protagonists, Jagjeet Singh and William 'Wizzo' Hapley attempt to prevent Professor Zumiez from assassinating a rapper called Mabus on his European Tour. Zumiez, formerly Jagjeet's mentor, believes Mabus to be Nostradamus' 'Third Antichrist', after Napoleon and Hitler. He believes that this rapper is the mythical 'Mabus', the one who will herald the end of the world. He intends on killing him and stopping the coming apocalypse. Zumiez tells Jagjeet his plan. Jagjeet is horrified and incredulous. As a Sikh, Jagjeet has sworn an oath to protect all life. So now mentor and student are turned sworn enemies over a man who may or may not be the Mabus written about in Nostradamus' quatrains. Wizzo just comes along for the ride. It is a race against time for the 'Zen Guys' to get to Mabus before Zumiez does.

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Sweating Bullets

 

Sweating Bullets
Joe Gotham
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Sweating Bullets

Joe Gotham

A dark and twisted identity crisis emerges when an amnesiac awakes to find himself accused of war crimes.


An amnesiac awakes to find himself accused of war crimes during the Second World War. Of his two interrogators, one believes him to be guilty, the other is more doubtful. Dr Karen Lingard, an empiricist, is shocked when the man comes back to life after being frozen in the ice after half a century. Her colleague, Seth Craven is a jew and wants to prosecute the prisoner for what he believes were war crimes committed during the Third Reich. Craven also sees the prisoners' unique physiology as a potential weapon, and plans to harvest his body. Both doctors butt heads over their differing views of the man. We see this John Doe as all his aliases are stripped away like layers of an onion, until the only thing left is the truth.

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Come With Your Shades On!!

 

Come With Your Shades On!!
Joe Gotham
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Come With Your Shades On!!

Joe Gotham

A dark and darkly funny black comedy following the adventures of a disparate group of people in the Netherlands in the days following 9/11.


A faded rock star,Dr Kosmoss, his blind companion, Christian, and a Nigerian King called Lord Ahmed go to the Netherlands in the wake of 9/11 to rescue a girl kidnapped by a porn star, Barny, his unhinged manager, Irn Blu and a one hit wonder, a rapper called Makaveli.

Meanwhile, a drug dealer called GSUS and his three pals, Stonehenge, the Maestro and Obi Rob Kenobi have to come up with ten thousand Guilders in three days to pay back the local big cheese, a psycho called LSD, or they're all dead.

Since Dr Kosmoss lost his memory in the WTC attacks, all he has to go on is a note telling him to go to the Netherlands and find a man called Bran Van Haappen. Christian comes to Amsterdam to rescue a girl he likes, only trouble is, he's blind. Dr Kosmoss and Christian agree to help each other on their respective quests.

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Things To Do In Dublin When You're Drunk

 

Things To Do In Dublin When Yo....
Joe Gotham
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Things To Do In Dublin When Yo....

Joe Gotham

A funny, sad, bittersweet rags to rags tale of an art school dropout with pithy, earthy dialogue, and a yen for the profane.


This is the story of Kent, back in Dublin after two years away in the countryside. It's about his adventures in art school, his topsy turvy love life, and his complicated relationship with his co-workers at the fast food joint he works at.
Kent is irresponsible and feckless, which brings him into conflict with virtually everyone in his life: his sexually-frustrated 300 pound landlady, his naive yet fiery on/off/on girlfriend, and his co-workers at the Worlds Worst fast food restaurant: Burger Kaiser, not to mention his lazy, aggressive flatmates.
As he finds himself navigating through these trigger-hair twists and turns of a carefree life, he finds himself growing up, getting sane, and looking forward instead of back.

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Marrowbone Lane

 

Marrowbone Lane
Joe Gotham
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Marrowbone Lane

Joe Gotham

A darkly comedic coming of age story about a boy's complicated relationship with his family, his town, and the opposite sex.


Joseph Kearney grows up in Tallaght, a rough satellite town of Dublin. His first babysitter is raped and murdered. His sister almost dies in the hospital. His mother becomes a schizophrenic after his sister's birth. After his parents break up when he is just eleven, a new stepmother and her three children move into the house, upsetting everything. His father, a strict disciplinarian becomes an abusive alcoholic and beats the boy on little or no pretext.
When the family moves to County Clare in the countryside, far from the hated suburbs, Joseph finds his life and himself forever changed. Joseph sees that he is an outsider for the first time. For the first time in his life he has luck with girs, but that doesn't stop him from making an ass of himself. He is exotic, and so he reinvents himself.
Yet no matter what he does, he can't escape the greatest bully in his life, his father.

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yasmin esack wrote 3 days ago

Hi My book is titled THE MIND SETTER, if you wish to support it, yo....

Andrew Burans wrote 7 days ago

Hi Joe, The reason for this message is that unfortunately, and it ....

yasmin esack wrote 9 days ago

hi My book is titled The Mind Setter. If you wish to back it yours w....

Barry Wenlock wrote 9 days ago

Hi Joe, I've put Zen Guys Go Euro on my list and will read and comme....

eurodan49 wrote 9 days ago

Hi there. I would appreciate if you look at TO KILL A DEAD MAN, a his....

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I wrote 57 days ago

Thanks, but I'm not a salesman. I've never tried to be sucessful, I'm uncomfortable with praise and selling myself and I have never looked for an agent or tried to be published. I'm probably afraid of sucess, or rejection. I'm not the new anyone, no one is, the truth is I'm not all that. But I'm wor... view book

I wrote 202 days ago

Yeah, thanks for the comments, guys an' gals. I will have to REALLY redraft this and clean it up in the next coupla months once I'm done writing He Got Ghost. view book

I wrote 212 days ago

This is weird 'cos of the five novels I've written, 'Things to do...' is the one I like the least, and yet it's getting the most attention. Strange. Must be the title, which is a total rip of a kick ass movie called Things to do in Denver when you're dead. I glossed over it again today and it's oka... view book

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