PAUL DAVID ADKIN
I have just finished When Sirens Call and I want to shout to everyone
out there, ‘Read This Novel’! Like Odysseus, we strap ourselves to
the mast and let the author carry us to places we have not imagined,
or that we have but have avoided looking at too closely. This book is
full of monsters. Not the physical kind but the ones that always hold me,
the intellectual kind. It is a book of ideas, of philosophies and of
characters. People who leap out at you, people you’ve met or would have
liked to. Fictional and real people — the paradox of good writing.
This book has been filling my head space for a week or so now.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Danny Fahey, author of The Tree Singer, The Woodcarver’s Son
AUTHOR
(FICTION)
Placenta is the signature of an enormously talented street artist
whose real identity is a closely kept secret. Or at least until an
enormously wealthy commercial artist takes it upon himself to
call Placenta's work his own. Art Wars is a dark tale dealing with
the relationship between art and the market place; between art and
ideology; between authentic creation and the mass
production of kitsch.
I want to shout to everyone out there,
‘Read This Novel’!
Art Wars: a dark tale dealing with the
relationship between art and the market place
THIS IS THE BOOK THAT YOU WANT
TO TAKE TO THAT DESERT ISLAND
Excellent. Engaging and thoughtful. If you want a well-told historical tale,
epic in scope but exquisitely attentive to detail, with a compelling personal
narrative set in Franco’s Spain rising from the backdrop of 16th-century
conquest, this is your book.
Told in language that is both precise and earthy, the novel sweeps across
primal scenes and hallucinatory visions, sea battles and lecture
halls, personal betrayals and lost loves. With a narrative momentum that
rarely falters, Adkin manages to integrate the high ideals of the epic quest
with all the human coarseness and blemishes of naturalism. Overall, a book
most anyone can enjoy.
Dr Gary Gautier, University of Colorado, www.shakemyheadhollow.com
OFFICIAL SITE
PURGATORY
Dismantling the Paradigm:
This long-awaited book is now available in English
as well as in the Spanish version, on-line
from Amazon stores.
April 2021
FAKE LIES: a book of aphorisms,
notes, and very other short writings, has
now been released and is available from
Amazon stores.
DISMANTLING THE PARADIGM
(NON FICTION)
There is something wrong with the world. We all know this, but what is the
exact problem? This book is an examination of the enormous complications
humanity faces today, carried out in a way that identifies the essence of those
problems, making room to find real solutions to them.
Dismantling the Paradigm strips our civilisation bare in order to envisage the
world with a different kind of organisation, with a different paradigm.
(HISTORICAL FICTION)
(FICTION)
