About the Author by
John Colapinto
pbk out July 02
(Fourth Estate)
at £6.99
Penniless book-shop clerk, Cal Cunningham, knows he is meant for better things. He is an author, well, he dreams of being an author, of reaching the top of the best-seller lists. He’s told everyone about his novel. The trouble is getting any of it down on paper. When flatmate Stewart is killed in a bicycle accident, Cal finds that Stewart has been a secret scribbler, taking Cal’s verbal stories of his raunchy New York adventures and transcribing them into a full-length book. Surely it must be destiny that Cal has stumbled upon the manuscript? And who’s to know the identity of the writer with Stewart gone? Almost Like Suicide, the great novel based on Cal’s life, hits the jackpot and Cal is rocketed to fame and fortune. But Cal’s perfect new world is threatened when loose ends from the past wriggle their way back into the light and Cal is forced to consider extreme measures to keep his secret safe. Refreshing, wickedly funny, guilt laden thriller from Colapinto with nail-biting, squirm inducing moments, a suitably egoistical anti-hero and some excellent sideswipes at literary aspirations and the world of bestsellers and PR hype.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
