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DEAD MAN TALKING

Jonathan Squirrell

ISBN 978-1-916668-09-6

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Publication: 29 FEBRUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668096
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Thema: FK Horror

Author location: Hull

• A humorous and original supernatural novel,
offering a fresh take on immortality. The semi-
immortal narrator muses on what it means to
exist, amuses himself by commenting on the
nature of memoir, and relates the story of his
life. Or rather, lives.
• The novel questions what it means to be
human, to be a monster, and to exist.
• The author was born and raised in Whitby and
now lives in Hull, where he works as a writing
tutor at the University of Hull.
Jonathan Squirrell grew up in Whitby. He has written scripts
performed in village halls, and song lyrics sung on BBC Radio 4. In “Okay, I know what you’re thinking, but let’s get one thing
2020 The Last Supper Club was selected to appear in an anthology straight: No. I’m not a vampire. I mean, yes, I rely on
compiled by the WRITE Festival, and in the same year Becoming blood to sustain my part-human, semi-immortal lifestyle, but
Familiar was released as a pamphlet by Wild Pressed Books. that’s as far as it goes, alright?”
Jonathan is a writing tutor, and lives in Hull with his family.
For the dead man talking, each death is only a new
beginning – as long as someone can be relied upon to
donate enough blood to bring him back to life. But it’s hard
to fit in when you’re legally dead, and a youth marred by
constant reinventions has made relationships and
employment seem futile. Unable to gain a foothold in the
real world, he begins to question what it means to be
human, to be a monster, and to exist.
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Dead Man Talking is the story of one man's many lives:
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discovery with the self-styled King of the Goths. At the point
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change of giving up, he finally comes to understand the meaning of
without notice. 15/09/2023 life – but nothing is without cost, and his genetics will not
allow him to escape his fate.