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There wasn't much to do in the battered, half-forgotten seaside resort of Jaywick Sands, Essex - nothing really, except to listen to the North Sea pound against the sea-defences and wait for the next run-down holiday shack to go up like a barbeque torch. Lee and Will were an odd pair, deeply eccentric kids, living alone with their mothers and struggling through resit classes in college. But all that was to change on the day they kidnapped Charley Price in an old motor they'd just stolen, and made a heroic run with her for the ferry to the far land where the tulips grow. My Pale Tulip takes a…mehr

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There wasn't much to do in the battered, half-forgotten seaside resort of Jaywick Sands, Essex - nothing really, except to listen to the North Sea pound against the sea-defences and wait for the next run-down holiday shack to go up like a barbeque torch. Lee and Will were an odd pair, deeply eccentric kids, living alone with their mothers and struggling through resit classes in college. But all that was to change on the day they kidnapped Charley Price in an old motor they'd just stolen, and made a heroic run with her for the ferry to the far land where the tulips grow. My Pale Tulip takes a scenic route across low countries to the beautiful cities of Delft and Utrecht - where darkness lies in ambush. It is a classic tale of flight and crash-landing: poignant, sharp-witted, with a voice all its own.
Autorenporträt
John Muckle is a fiction writer, poet and critic. He is the author of six books of fiction, including 'The Cresta Run' (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), 'Cyclomotors', an acclaimed short illustrated novel set in the early 1950s (available through Shearsman Books), and the novels 'London Brakes' (Shearsman, 2010), 'My Pale Tulip' (2012), 'Falling Through' (2017), and the short-story collection 'Late Driver' (2020). His first full-length poetry collection, 'Firewriting and Other Poems', appeared from Shearsman in 2005, and a sequel, 'Mirrorball', came out in 2018. 'Little White Bull' (2014), his study of British fiction in the 1950s and 60s, remapped its chosen period in an original way. In the eighties he launched the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, 'The New British Poetry' (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He lives in North London, and works as a teacher.