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Sharply Critical

Sharply Critical

Ellis Sharp

Jetstone
2018
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In this wide-ranging collection of essays and reviews, the novelist and short story writer Ellis Sharp analyses the work of novelists, poets, historians and film makers, including Ian McEwan, Paul Celan and David Lean. Topics covered include the hidden meanings of Jane Eyre, the problems involved in establishing Shakespeare's identity and the reputations of Angela Carter, Douglas Haig and Orde Wingate. Sharp scrutinises in detail Ian McEwan's response to the invasion of Iraq and the politics enshrined in his novel Saturday, as well as attitudes to Israel exemplified by critical responses to the novelists Aharon Appelfeld and Amos Oz. Other subjects covered include Rimbaud, Robert Mitchum, a favourite film of Stalin's and Ann Quin's final novel Trypticks."Sharp is sui generis. At times he comes across as if he were a compound hallucination dreamed up by Iain Sinclair, William Burroughs and . . . well, himself. This might sound like an unappealing mix but I am delighted to have read him. You can trust him because beneath the zaniness, at the level of the sentence, he is very good indeed. This is not magic realism. These are the bad dreams of the twentieth century." THE GUARDIAN
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What Vronsky Did Next

What Vronsky Did Next

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2021
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"Kevin was acting weird, he picked up one of the kitchen knives, sometimes he jabbed it, as if making a debating point, the conversation continued, about music now, I did not like the way Kevin sometimes pointed the knife at me, he seemed strangely angry and aggressive..." In old age L looked back fondly on the time he went down the rabbit-hole, where he met Irish Jack, Honey and Milena. And then there was Kevin - not forgetting Malcolm Lowry and his manuscripts and his first wife, Jan Gabrial. What Vronsky Did Next - a novel about books, lovers, drink and drugs. And Kevin.
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Alice in Venice

Alice in Venice

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2022
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This novella dramatises several days in the wintry, mist-shrouded city of Venice as Alice Short seeks out and photographs locations used for the 1973 film Don't Look Now. But Alice is not alone - or is she? Who is the Frenchman, Alain, and what exactly is his business in this city? As the couple's conversations grow more and more intense, Alice moves ever closer to that moment when everything will come to an end. From the author of the dazzling collection Aria Fritta, this strange work is as complex as a reconstructed mosaic, yet as simple as the 72 photographs which accompany the text.
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Night Architecture

Night Architecture

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2024
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Two short texts, one fictional, one meditational. In the first, 'Night Architecture', a leading British architect returns from a foreign trip to his isolated, self-designed East Anglian home beside an estuary. Woken in the night by a strange sound resembling a scream he goes to investigate, only to find himself trapped in a series of strange and disturbing events. The second, 'Sudoxe', is a series of meditations on the 1958 novel Exodus by Leon Uris and its popular 1960 American film adaptation. These lead on to some reflections about the relationship of the novel and the film to contemporary events.
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Full English

Full English

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2022
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A man spends a night at a B & B. Waking in the middle of the night, he recalls the trials and tribulations of an English adolescence and early manhood. This exquisite, tenderly observed and delightful Bildungsroman belongs to a genre which includes Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Sons and Lovers, The Catcher in the Rye, and Goodbye, Columbus - classic writing to which it very evidently owes nothing at all. Wildly inventive, stunning, brilliantly observed, stellar, inspiring, magical and groundbreaking, raw and emotional, urgent and of great importance, unique and chilling, inspirational, beautiful, superb, page-turning, brilliantly funny, a classic in the making, exquisite - just a few of the descriptions of new novels borrowed from the world of corporate publishing which plainly do not apply to Full English. Enjoy.
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Month of the Drowned Dog

Month of the Drowned Dog

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2023
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Widowed geologist Jon Tain is found dead in a remote Scottish graveyard. Death from exposure; a tragic accident. His daughter Jane is baffled by the events which led up to his death and sets out to make sense of his final mysterious car journey from Hampshire to the Highlands. As she journeys deep into her father's past she uncovers a secret love - and finds a new love of her own. The Professor's Wife - a poignant tale of deceit, secrecy and betrayal. As he read through the manuscript of this unpublished novel written years earlier, the writer was struck by how false it seemed, both in its language and plot and in its representation of the story underlying the narrative. But could anything be rescued from it? Month of the Drowned Dog - a novel about death, biography, literature and the deceptions of narrative.
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Pig Tale

Pig Tale

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2023
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This charming tale tells the story of Ed Pig's escape from Pigland and his wanderings in the land of the humans. In rural England Ed found himself involved in a sequence of strange and colourful adventures. He attended his first music festival. He discovered terrible things about what humans do to animals. He fell in love. And in a local bookshop he came across a paperback entitled Animal Farm. Ed knew then that he had to return to Pigland to tell everyone the truth about the foul libels told against pigs - and the horrifying reality which lay in wait both for himself and for his listeners.
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Concrete Impressions

Concrete Impressions

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2023
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The wife of Britain's greatest living novelist hears terrible screams coming from his study. She knows there are two people from his past who want to kill him. As she runs from the grounds of their country estate into their manor house to confront his attacker, the novelist's life and career unfold before the reader, leading to that terrible moment when the source of the horror finally becomes clear. This is the extraordinary tale of one man's life. Concrete Impressions - a novel about literature and biography.
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Driving My Baby Back Home

Driving My Baby Back Home

Ellis Sharp

Zoilus Press
1999
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From Sharon Stone to Charles Bukowski, from Lenin to the man who shot JFK, this bizarre collection of 35 short fictions radically revises twentieth-century history and culture. UNDERWEAR - Watching videos results in disturbing voyages through time and space for Lise and Annabelle, as well as surprises for Matthew Arnold and Henry James. TYMPOPTANOMANIA - Laird's visit to the Isle of Wight in search of the ghost of Karl Marx results in the astonishing Theory of Tympoptanomia. ULYSSES - Joyce's masterpiece helpfully shortened and rewritten around a much more important day than 16 June 1904. LOST - 800 police officers were lost last year, with alarming consequences for a distant moon.
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The Aleppo Button

The Aleppo Button

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2021
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Stalin fakes his death, swims to England and starts a new life. Strange paranormal phenomena occur shortly before the pregant mothers of future American presidents go into labour. A purple mould spreads across Europe and a marriage collapses. In the idiosyncratic and distinctive stories of his first collection - now enlarged to include the contents of three rare early chapbooks published before it - Ellis Sharp synthesizes fact and fiction to provide dark, comic parables for our times.
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Three Novellas

Three Novellas

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2019
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THREE NOVELLAS by Ellis Sharp. TO WETUMPKA - He was running on empty and troubled by strange dreams. Plus maybe he'd read too much F. Scott Fitzgerald and seen too many movies. So Tollinger went looking for a new beginning. But what he encountered on an east coast beach was to change the direction of his life in a way he could never have imagined, in this tale of trauma and disintegration and of a struggle to survive disturbing events. INTOLERABLE TONGUES - In the spring of 1939, during the final phase of the great Palestinian rebellion, Dr Donald McCollum went on a motor tour of the Holy Land. His intention was to write a travel book about his pilgrimage to the places associated with the life of Jesus. This is not that book. THE DUMP - In a narrative which at times reads like a dystopian yet comic News from Nowhere retold by Samuel Beckett, we are taken inside the mind of a half-deranged inhabitant of The Dump, a vast waste tip on the edge of London, where the outcasts of our society wander amidst its filth and rubbish.
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Lenin's Trousers

Lenin's Trousers

Ellis Sharp

ZOILUS PRESS
2019
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History collides with fantasy as Ellis Sharp tackles the big questions of our time and uncovers startling new facts about Emily Bront , extra-terrestrials and gastric secretion. These thirteen inventive stories answer such questions as: who invented yogurt? Why was the British Government prepared to spend one million roubles in an attempt to seize Lenin's trousers? And what did happen to Fred, Laura and the children in Brief Encounter after Alec left for South Africa?
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