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Peter McCloskey

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Thinking of Pink Elephants should be available to read shortly.

Invisible Father, Leo and Maxwell Caulfield are complete but not fully uploaded here.

More interested in hearing what people think is wrong with the books, rather than what is right with them.

Special thanks to Bradley Wind for the covers on Invisible Fathers and on Leo.


email... marlowecanning@hotmail.co.uk

favourite books

Portrait of the Artist - James Joyce
Frannie and Zooey - JD Salinger
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

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Invisible Fathers

Pete McCloskey

If God asks you to burn his churches to the ground... you don't ask questions.


Every week, in bars and cafes, hotels and community halls, twelve men secretly gather together under the instruction of a homeless man who refers only to himself as God, to learn exactly how it is that they’re going to burn 150 and fifty churches to the ground, and get away with it.

For Tommy,, this should have been no more than an act of petulant and personal revenge, it should have, as he’d been promised, wiped the slate clean. When what had seemed like an act of grandiose vandalism reveals itself to be just one small act in a much larger global conspiracy, an extravagant attack on organised religions, Tommy and his band of twelve brothers find themselves on the run as authorities the world over begin the ruthless hunt of the church burners.

 

Leo

Pete McCloskey

An extraordinary day in the life of an over sexed, drunk, drugged up moaning waste of space.


Leo is young, an addict, and secretly in love with the mesmerizing drag queen and burlesque dancer, Ruby La Rouge.
The novel follows this young man from inner city Belfast as he struggles to keep his secrets from his family, friends and female lovers over the course of a day that threatens to disclose all of his illicit affairs and habits - a dark, modern and darkly humorous, alternative Irish love story.

 

My Friend Maxwell Caulfield

Pete McCloskey

While sat alone in a city cafe Maxwell Caulfield decides in an instant that he has no want to live even a minute longer


While sat alone in a city café, twenty two year old student Maxwell Caulfield decides in an instant that he has no want to live, not even a minute longer. He scribbles a list on the torn margin of a newspaper the names of the people he wishes to explain his reasons to for ending his life. He plans to give himself one week in which to tell these people of his intentions. The final name is that of his friend, as aspiring writer who he charges with the task of writing the novel about his final week alive. When the week has past Maxwell goes to see him at his home, and tells him the story of the list and the events that unfolded throughout the previous week. He warns the narrator that not all that he tells him is true, but that these lies themselves will hold great importance when transcribed in the final novel that is to be written. ‘My Friend Maxwell Caulfield’ is the product of this long talk into the night inter-spliced with the narrators first person narrative of the events that unfold that evening. A book within a book.

 

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Hi Peter, “Informers and blackmailers, phrenologists and dissectio....

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I wrote 233 days ago

I haven't backed a book in a long time... I like this. One thing, I think in places you describe some very monotonous movements too heavily. eg. I snap off my surgical gloves and place them in duffel bag by the door... (for me, that whole paragraph is three times the length it needs to be ... view book

I wrote 488 days ago

The HC review was so far off the mark it's unreal. I read chapter one... I just don't get how they could attack your book in such a way. It's well written... you're a good writer. That review makes no sense. It's publishable quality. view book

I wrote 524 days ago

It's well written - it's very heavily influenced by Palahnuick's Fight Club in the style which is a problem for me. I don't feel like I'm hearing your voice and think you possibly wrote this with Ed Nortans voice in your head. Now the writing's good - it really is but you've been influenced too heav... view book

I wrote 591 days ago

Fucking great man... really liked it - very funny and deserves to be up top... good luck with it. No need to back me back or anything like that. view book

I wrote 599 days ago

Cheers fro the comment on Invisible Father's Terry. I've backed your book. I don't have much time to do readings at the moment but I'll try to get back to get a look at at least your first couple of chapters. Good luck Pete view book

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