Bio:
I’m a Scottish writer living just outside
Glasgow. In the seventies and eighties my poems appeared regularly in the small
press magazines that were legion at the time. By the nineties I had allowed
myself to become disillusioned and stopped sending stuff out. I didn't stop
writing however but moved onto novels and short stories in that order. I’ve now
written five novel, two of which have been published (Living with the Truth and Stranger
than Fiction) and a third (Milligan
and Murphy) due out any day. I’ve also brought out a collection of poetry
called This Is Not About What You Think.
Product
description:
Jonathan Payne is a jaded bookseller at the
end of a wasted life which has been spent in a drab English seaside town. He
could be an everyman, but seems to have missed the boat somewhere. He's both
distastefully pathetic and oddly sympathetic. A passive character, he’s been
happy to read about life without experiencing either great joy or great
despair. If Death were to knock on his door it wouldn’t trouble him greatly.
The knock comes. Only it’s not Death. It’s
the truth. Literally. The human personification of truth.
Truth proves to be a likeable, if
infuriating, character with a novel mode of expression: “glib dipped in
eloquence and then rolled in a coating of irony,” to quote one reviewer. He
knows everything and has no qualms revealing intimate details of lives of the
people who cross his path; he’s quite indiscriminate. The same reviewer
described him as “one of the most endearing antagonists I have come across.”
Comparisons with Peter Cook’s devil in Bedazzled
are not unreasonable.
Jonathan learns what he's missed out on in
life, what other people think and the true nature of the universe which is
nothing like he would have expected it to be. At the end, having learned far
more than he ever wanted to know, he finds out that it's usually never too late
to start again. Only sometimes it is: no Ebenezer Scrooge or George
Bailey-esque turnaround for poor Jonathan.
Q:
What will e-readers like about your book?
The fact that they’re getting two books in
a single volume.
Q:
Why did you go indie?
Because I don’t write books that fall into
traditional genres
Q:
Who are your favourite authors in your genre?
As I said I’m not a genre writer but the
writers whose influences you’ll see in The
Whole Truth are Keith Waterhouse, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Neil
Gaiman and Alan Bennett.
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