“Garth Jones hates Australia. Not the Australia that could be, but the apathetic version, the sheep station Australia… It’s cathartic reading rooted in the method of recoil, grimace and laugh. He takes you places you don't want to go, knowing you'll enjoy the ride. Call it kidnapping if you must.”
“Explodes in a hell-fest of pulp fiction, dripping with blood and colour… international cream, however twisted, rises” - Kirsty Allison, Psychomachia
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“Uproariously, deliciously weird and hallucinatory - part Ginsberg, part fictitious rock and roll bio, with plenty of otherworldly chaos” - JM Donellan, Killing Adonis
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“Grotty, grimy larrikin smut – a rollicking outback word tsunami” - Dr Lara Cain Gray, Library For All
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“A book U kan open up to any page and it POPS and FUCKS UP ya Sensibilities and Expectations” - Duvay Knox, The Pussy Detective
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“If Hunter S Thompson was dragged screaming from the corpse-pouch of marsupial roadkill, he’d write like this” - J. Ashley-Smith, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ariadne, I Love You & The Attic Tragedy
Check out an audio excerpt read by writer/ comedian Justin Hamilton below!
“refreshingly original, often shocking, and utterly entertaining.” - POPPY GEE, bay of fires
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“Brilliant - reminds me of Richard Allen fuelled mayhem, Stewart Home and Deadline!” - Jenny Valentish, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else
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“Garth’s writing is like Bret Easton Ellis, Nikki Sixx and David Lee Roth had a literary baby” Sebastian Vice, Outcast Press
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“There is nothing like Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets. It’s new, weird and out-there,
and that makes it too good not to get into” - Richard Cooke, Tired of Winning: A chronicle of american decline
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“Satirical, violent, low-brow... Basically, it's loaded with the good stuff” - ZACHARY ASHFORD, POLYPHEMUS
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“Fucking great stuff – relentlessly funny and inventive. I was pissing myself!”
- Tony Martin, Sizzletown, The Late Show
Collecting the trilogy of novellas (4.94 stars on Good Reads), Home Brewed Vampire Bullets, The Novel features a unique QR-code driven soundtrack by that prince of the patch cable, Seattle-based synth wizard Half Majesty.
ISBN: 9798210985552
USD $15.99 + postage (roughly 25 bucks AUD, plus postage)
388pp trade paperback
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Garth is a writer from Broken Hill, NSW, Australia – Mad Max country.
His first job was designing ads for phone sex lines; he did time as resident Atheist provocateur at a church newspaper, and drew comics for DAVID LEE ROTH just out of uni.
The manuscript for Garth’s first novel, HOME BREWED VAMPIRE BULLETS, was shortlisted for a variety of prizes…
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