Description
Welcome to the world of The Nacullians, three generations of one family, living in a brick house in a line of other brick houses. Craig Jordan-Baker's dark comedy charts the tensions and traumas of one family and their relationship with the city they inhabit.
About the Author
Craig Jordan-Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Brighton. He has published fiction in New Writing, Text, Firefly Magazine, Potluck and in the epoque press ezine. His drama has been widely performed in the UK, including his adaptation of Beowulf and he has had dramatic work commissioned from The National Archives, The Booth Museum of Natural History and the Theatre Royal Brighton. The Nacullians is Craig's debut novel.
Reviews
'It is rare to find a debut author so liberated from the polite conventions of the creative writing classroom. Craig Jordan-Baker writes with such mischief and narrative daring, like Eric Morecambe, gripping us by the collar and telling us all the right stories but not necessarily in the right order.' (Ronan Hession - author of Leonard and Hungry Paul) 'In this hilarious and astute debut, Craig Jordan-Baker dances between the work-hardened lives of a family on an English housing estate and the stuff of how families gets told. Like any descendant of a brickie, he knows the difference between a wall of fag-smoke, an Irish header and a deadend of stretcher bricks. The Nacullians, he tells us, are 'narrow, hard things' but what width and softness he brings to them. Welcome to the new (nan)son of Flann O'Brien.' (Cherry Smyth - Royal Literary Fellow 2014 to 2016 and author of Famished)
Book Information
ISBN 9781999896072
Author Craig Jordan-Baker
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Epoque Press
Publisher Epoque Press
About the Author
Craig Jordan-Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Brighton. He has published fiction in New Writing, Text, Firefly Magazine, Potluck and in the epoque press ezine. His drama has been widely performed in the UK, including his adaptation of Beowulf and he has had dramatic work commissioned from The National Archives, The Booth Museum of Natural History and the Theatre Royal Brighton. The Nacullians is Craig's debut novel.
Reviews
'It is rare to find a debut author so liberated from the polite conventions of the creative writing classroom. Craig Jordan-Baker writes with such mischief and narrative daring, like Eric Morecambe, gripping us by the collar and telling us all the right stories but not necessarily in the right order.' (Ronan Hession - author of Leonard and Hungry Paul) 'In this hilarious and astute debut, Craig Jordan-Baker dances between the work-hardened lives of a family on an English housing estate and the stuff of how families gets told. Like any descendant of a brickie, he knows the difference between a wall of fag-smoke, an Irish header and a deadend of stretcher bricks. The Nacullians, he tells us, are 'narrow, hard things' but what width and softness he brings to them. Welcome to the new (nan)son of Flann O'Brien.' (Cherry Smyth - Royal Literary Fellow 2014 to 2016 and author of Famished)
Book Information
ISBN 9781999896072
Author Craig Jordan-Baker
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Epoque Press
Publisher Epoque Press
