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Martin Taylor

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I work as a lighting technician in film and television and I have written a book.

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New York Trilogy, 1984, Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Clockwork Orange, Vernon God Little, Mrs. Dalloway, Helliconia Spring, Waterland, Dubliners, The Unconsoled, Metamorphosis, Crash, Crime and Punishment.

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Rubber Ring

Martin Taylor

Why kill your brother when you can kill yourself...


Following a mysterious invitation from a visiting professor, a final year Psychology student becomes dangerously embroiled in the case of Michael, a disturbed young man in police custody, and Gonzo, the twin brother he claims to have killed.

The only evidence is contained in a battered suitcase crammed with the demented testament of the brothers' lives.

From a lonely East London tenement wallpapered with another man's thoughts, to the echoing corridors of a Victorian asylum lost in the north of England, the truth about the life and death of the brothers becomes ever more sinister.

A book about sanity and identity, Rubber Ring implicates the reader in the construction of the delusion itself, casting them inside the madness, leaving them to find their own route back to the truth.

It is also a comedy.

 

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Helianthus wrote 13 days ago

You never said whether you wanted the typos or not. Shall I toss this....

Paul Beattie wrote 70 days ago

Harper Collins have just chosen my novel, Filthy Luca as the official....

gloria54 wrote 90 days ago

gloria_weah@yahoo.com Hello. My Name is gloria mpka. I was impr....

FrancesK wrote 92 days ago

Hi Martin, hope you are still out there somewhere. Have you added any....

Shakespeare's Talking Head wrote 93 days ago

Stopped by to say thanks for backing 'Loser', and read the blurb for ....

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I wrote 118 days ago

Now I don't really read many gangster books; the archetypal genre traditions seem ever-presented whether being flouted or followed. Cormac McCarthy is perhaps a notable exception. Anyway, "Dropping Babies" sets off with brutish immediacy, though the violence is nicely tempered by the shallow focu... view book

I wrote 193 days ago

Working in the film business (though never having darkened the doors of a film school), there is a terrible resonance in the account of the state of the industry. The shadowy hinterland of hope and ambition behind the prime-time glitz is palpably conveyed. Thing is, from what I've read, I'm not sure... view book

I wrote 193 days ago

At times verging on the picaresque, the narrative rolls along enjoyably. London is a character with whom he has to engage. I was unsure if the outburst of rage at the casting was an intended as an instance of multiple personality disorder. I'm no expert but I'm not sure it's as neat as that. Very re... view book

I wrote 193 days ago

The prose is so muscular you feel that if you met it on the beach it would kick sand in your face. It is quite funny, though. With editing this could definitely work. Martin Taylor view book

I wrote 403 days ago

There is a dreamy, elegiac quality to the lean prose that hints of a higher significance to the events depicted. Both the prologue and the first chapter quickly establish a strong sense of atmosphere, an impressionistic vision of the world from the perspective of age and youth. The pace perhaps suff... view book

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