* Interview to be placed in broadsheet newspaper * Review coverage across tabloid and broadsheet newspapers * Review coverage in literary and weekly magazines * National radio interviews in Australia and New Zealand * Wide online review coverage * Invitation to be sought to 2015 writers festivals * Featured in Text newsletters and website
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'For those with a taste for dark, unpredictable and sometimes surreal comedy, this is a book of invigorating originality and the character of Francis Plug himself a creation of twisted genius.' Express UK 'Francis Plug is a brilliant, deranged new comic creation by the unknown writer Paul Ewen...he has created an extraordinary alter ego in the mentally unusual Plug.' Sunday Times UK 'A wonderful survey of the strange world of famous authors...Plug's exchanges with dozens of Booker-prizewinning authors are priceless. But the novel (really an ingenious hybrid of fact and surreal fantasy) takes on much extra resonance in the portrayal of Plug himself, an alcoholic chancer with a propensity for whisky-fuelled escapades.' Guardian 'One of the funniest books I've ever read.' The Times 'So funny you find yourself giggling helplessly long after you've passed the joke...Pure-and purely pleasurable- silliness.' TLS 'Outrageously good.' New Daily 'It is becoming a cliche to say, "Paul Ewen is a comic genius and Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author is the funniest book in years"-but it's no less true...It might come across as a gentle satire on book folk but Vanity with a capital V also gets an entirely hilarious kicking.' -- Toby Litt New Statesman 'Rambunctious and witty...it'll tickle anyone's funnybone.' Burnie Advocate 'One thinks of Goethe: one thinks of Shelley: one thinks of Plug. He is a force of nature, he is sage, bard and prophet: he is in addition a random menace, and at all times you need to know exactly where he is. They say there are no statues to critics. But the fourth plinth awaits Francis. Perhaps he can be chained to it.' Hilary Mantel
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