A Cure for Solitude
David Whiteman
New release debut fiction title
£7.99
Londoner Alex returns from his travels and finds himself at a loss. His friends have moved on. He has no motivation in life and he is looking for something to fill a void. Lucy, a Canadian he met whilst abroad, calls him and invites him for a drink. She introduces him to a strange gentleman, from Prague, called Dominik. Dominik and Alex connect and Dominik sees in him an apprentice as a smuggler!
They move to Prague where Alex takes up his new role. In the new beautiful city Alex soon finds he needs to find a way to get out of the smuggling trade..
'Felt like I was in Prague for a week! Great novel!'
Graeme Milton, Helter Skelter publishing
'He's hit the bullseye! Allow 48 hours undisturbed reading..'
Pandora Black, Amazon.co.uk
The
Metro 'five questions' interview
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A Cure for Solitude, Book of the Week
Foyles St Pancras International
Shelley meets Ben Stiller on the
Grey Love publicity tour in New York
The Romance; an episode in the life of a young writer Hb £8.99
Artwork - Vishal Shah
Author - Jason Shelley
'Judith' image within Ambit 200 issue
A Cure for Solitude
David Whiteman
'An enjoyable read! Full of intrigue.
I didn't want to put it down! Draws you into
the underworld of smuggling and demonstrates
the foolhardiness of the young. A stint of travelling
and they believe they can take on the world!
Here we see the dangers that lie within!'
Primary school teacher Shelley Beszelzen reviews for Facebook
23 photos
POET JASON HAS A HOLLYWOOD FAN
Jetsetting south Essex author Jason Shelley has a Hollywood fan after a trip to New York.
Jason, who grew up in Beresford Gardens, Hadleigh, met movie star Ben Stiller in a coffee shop during a book tour.
They discussed Jason's poetry collection
, Grey Love, and the actor, best known for comedy films like Meet the Parents, accepted a copy.
Jason, who attended the Deanes School and Westwood Primary, said: "I was with my agent after doing a book signing. We were sitting near a woman we later realised was Monica Lewinsky when Ben came in with his wife.
"My agent asked a waitress to give him a
copy of the book and he came over and had a chat. He seemed quite an amusing guy."
Grey Love was published in 2003, to critical acclaim, after the success of Jason's first poetry anthology, No Looking Back.
Jason is currently photographs as part of an installation in Butterfly Walk, Camberwell, with British artist Sarah Lucas.
The artwork by Vishal Shah, for his latest title, The Romance, an episode in the life a young writer was exhibited as part of the Threads exhibition, in April and May this year, at the Tank Gallery, in Ladywell, curated by Deeqa Ismail.
Please visit http://www.tlon.co.uk/ to see the work. You can also buy the hardback which has all the artwork from the story in it. £8.99 from any good bookshop or buy online
Jason Shelley - New York encounter
Actor Ben Stiller - coffee meeting
Picture: Maxine Clarke
Courtesy of Katherine Legge, Evening Echo, Southend-on-sea
The
Romance
Jason Shelley Vishal Shah
An engaging slice of late night thoughts presented in a neat slim
volume. The expressionistic
illustrations and darkly comic
prose capture the
edginess of modern
metropolitan living. 'Brings to mind the view from the rainy bus stop of anonymous illuminated windows.'
Grey Love
Jason Shelley
Harmonious work
of
fiction with
a beautiful cover.
Prose and poetry written with a
cold detached style. In the city Shelley the writer and narrator struggles to find love and finds himself describing a grey love.
Beckettesque with dark humour
Tlön Books Publishing Ltd have some beautiful and interesting new titles on the agenda. Following the (rare) exhibition at the Tank gallery, artwork and limited edition prints are available to purchase such as The Romance, an episode in the life of a young writer which is also available as a hardback book.
We are running a sequence of images in the latest issues of Ambit. Now available Ambit 200. See the Saturday Times article by editor Martin Bax on the late co-editor J.G.Ballard.
