Users of GoodReads can avail of the first few chapters of Lost Angeles and Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] for free.
Sunday 29 December 2013
Monday 23 December 2013
Downward Facing Doug
Venice Books are releasing my two Roman á clef novels Lost Angeles & Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] in one Kindle busting edition cleverly named Downward Facing Doug. Though DFD won't be available in Paperback before Christmas (as that's dangerously close to a capitalistic manifesto) it will be available on Kindle from Jesus' birthday.
In addition to the two novels there'll also be three short stories from a collection I'm tentatively calling Short Stories That All Definitely Happened including Death RRP $19.99 [click here to read], A Short Story For Creationists and The Greatest Cock That Ever Lived. If you've bought someone a Kindle for Christmas and want to fill it with 400 plus pages about life, love, sex, death, addiction and dog wanking then Downward Facing Doug is the book for you!
Merry Christmas Internet!
“BUKOWSKI COMPARISONS ARE JUSTIFIED.
LOUDEN HAS A TURN OF PHRASE THAT COULD PUT BIGGER NAMES TO SHAME…” Thom
Fell – author of ‘Acceptable in the Eighties’
“TRULY IMPRESSIVE…A WORK OF ART!” Wendy
Powers – author of ‘The Testament of Judith Barton’
“A DEBAUCHED, TOUCHING, MESSED UP LOOK
AT LOVE & LOSS. FABULOUS.”Inanity & the Girl
“MOVING, BIG-HEARTED AND OFTEN
HILARIOUS.” – GoodReads review
“EMOTIONAL, HEARTBREAKING, THOUGHT PROVOKING
[…] A GREAT BOOK.” – GoodReads review
“IT’S LIKE FRANK
McCOURT AND RODDY DOYLE HAD A BABY AND IT WAS LOUDEN’S BONE IDOL” – GoodReads review
Lost Angeles: 1 Dec, 2012
Full time whiskey enthusiast Doug Morgan is on a downward spiral. Over the past two years the Irish man has played witness to the slow and steady decay of his life and he’s finally called time. Haunted by an unacknowledged pain Doug swaps the white collar nine to five of Belfast for one last charge into oblivion in the City of Angels. A scotch-soaked stranger in a strange land Doug befriends a series of like minded and self destructive vagabonds who, like him, are aiming for chaos. In a city that sees thousands of people per year come to be discovered why has one man come to get lost?
4.73/5 on GoodReads
Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l]: 28 Nov, 2013
The sophomore follow-up to Lost Angeles is the semi-biographical tale of author David Louden's alter-ego Doug Morgan as he struggles to connect with his father Jack, his mother Ruth and the working class ideology of "a real job".
From his early adventure filled days in Poleglass through to the alcohol induced haze of his early twenties Doug's life (much like the city) is one at conflict with itself. Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] is filled with humour, sex, guilt and the shameful dream of a boy wanting to create more than a family of haunted heirs.
From his early adventure filled days in Poleglass through to the alcohol induced haze of his early twenties Doug's life (much like the city) is one at conflict with itself. Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] is filled with humour, sex, guilt and the shameful dream of a boy wanting to create more than a family of haunted heirs.
4.33/5 on GoodReads
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