graham joyce

I was first attracted to this novel by a review which described the setting; a British seaside holiday camp in the early 1970s. I have no personal experience of staying in one of these but they were very much part of the popular culture when I was growing up, with Butlins and Pontins the two...

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/09/graham-joyce-1954-2014/ Horrible news. I had the luck to hear him read from Some Kind of Fairy Tale a couple of years back; his writing was absolutely magnificent.

The Year of the Ladybird

My writing group are gonna have an informal yet informative chat with master of magical realism and local legend Graham Joyce tomorrow (Approx 18.00 hrs GMT, 29th Sept). If you fellas would like me to put any questions to him, I'll happily oblige. Whether its recorded or not I don't know, but I...

Jake and Zoe have been married for a decade and decide to take a celebratory skiing holiday in the Pyrenees (not the Alps, as some advance cover blurbs are saying). They are caught in a monstrous avalanche, barely survive, and make their way back to their hotel only to find that the entire...

When he is a young boy, Sam Southall loses a tooth and leaves it out for the tooth fairy to collect. Unfortunately, the tooth fairy is unhappy when Sam wakes up during the collection process, and the result is a long, fractious and unpleasant relationship that lasts the remainder of Sam's...

This book is curiously difficult to review, or even to describe. It is set in the contemporary world, and features Englishman Jack Chambers, who has been summoned to Chicago to execute the will of a controlling and manipulative father he has loathed, but not seen, for some twenty years. He...

Has anyone read any books by this author? I'm more than half way through The Tooth Fairy and have been pleasantly surprised at what I thought may be a light hearted read aimed at YA's. Actually turned out to be a gritty, sometimes dark read :)