A charismatic cult leader is dead. One by one his followers are being assassinated. Sawn in half, beheaded, skinned alive. Enter Gallio.
Richard Beard's most recent book is Acts of the Assassins, which
was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
In the twenty years since his first book he has published
critically acclaimed novels and narrative non-fiction, including
Becoming Drusilla, the story of how a friendship between two men
was changed by a gender transition.
He was formerly Director of the National Academy of Writing in
London, and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo
and has a Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East
Anglia. He is an optimistic opening batsman for the Authors Cricket
Club.
Brilliantly original and absurdly compelling ... it’s a book you’ll
read in one, frantic gasp
*Guardian*
Brilliantly original and absurdly compelling ... it’s a book you’ll
read in one, frantic gasp
*Guardian*
Richard Beard is one of those rare writers whose novels are at once
radically inventive and brilliantly entertaining. Acts of the
Assassins … is as joyously original as it is a page-turner to
read
*Daily Mail*
The Acts of the Assassins is…spectacularly successful. It is
thoughtful and clever and brutal and true… It is a Chinese puzzle
box of a novel. A garden of forking paths. A page-turner. A modern
classic
*Book Munch*
Extraordinarily funny...confident and enchanting
*Guardian*
It is a darkly funny, virtuoso performance… so cleverly done it
almost winks at the reader
*Sunday Times*
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