“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
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White Mexicans
& Other Short Stories
That All Definitely Happened*
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
& Other Short Stories
That All Definitely Happened*
Too poor to escape Los
Angeles
Half novella, half
short story compilation, White Mexicans is an American tale told in the Irish
yarn tradition. Populated with Louden’s
usual spit and spite dialogue, off-colour humour and poetic lamentation of a
world gone wrong; his third outing is a mix
of fable and low-life fiction.
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Lost Angeles
Venice Books, CA. December, 1 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
In a city that sees thousands of people per year come to be discovered why has one man come to get lost?
Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l]
Venice Books, CA. November, 28 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.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Henry Roscoe: Detective, Sort of
Television, In Development
Henry Roscoe O’Toole has idled away the weather-beaten days in Belfast with alcohol, pub quizzes and suffering through the ritualistic humiliations of his ex-wife Joy and her new love Jimmy. That is until Henry quits his job forcing him to re-evaluate his options and ultimately answer the call of the Raymond Chandler “romance” of private investigation work.
With an ad in his local Tesco Metro and an almost homicidal determination to defeat the seemingly invincible local pub quiz champions Henry sees his world change almost overnight. Soon he is sucked into a deadly realm of drugs, sex, murder and picture rounds; as curiosity becomes intrigue and danger becomes death Henry finds himself out of his depth and tangled up in a Noir landscape so dark only the true gumshoe can emerge.
* The statement that all stories “definitely happened” is one used for entertainment purposes and should not be considered factual or legally binding. All too often Mr. Louden is full of shit.
