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Play it as it lays by Joan Didion... So much of this book takes place in the white spaces on the pages, the empty spaces between the sentences and off the pages altogether... If Los Angeles is the City of Angels then Joan Didion is the Angel of Death... Death drives a Corvette... Maria Wyeth lost her soul but it was never made clear if she had a soul to begin with... California as bleached bones and snakes and air-conditioned motels and tranquilized feelings of dread... Verdict: This is the novel equivalent of the Doors’ final album LA Woman.

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Obligatory photo of Joan Didion and her Corvette

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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand... The delusional capitalist’s bible... The gospel according to Ayn Rand... An autistic soap opera... This book would never be published these days due to a strong left wing bias in the publishing world the censors right wing voices... Objectivist philosophy deeply flawed and naive, but a variety of different points of view and different voices need to be heard for a culture to be healthy.

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The Narcrosis Syndrome... a romance novel? According to Amazon.com it is. A fucked-up romance that is.

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I'm shocked that Angus & Robertson stock The Narcrosis Syndrome, since they are the McDonald's of book stores.

Review of The Narcrosis Syndrome by Nathan Markham: "This is a study of sexual tension, sexual brutality and sexual perversity - it is also a study of insomnia and all the demons that can lead to sleepless nights. Markham paints a dirty, gritty story of a young woman, Crystal Song, trapped in a dark world of brutal sex and of a middle aged career man, Van Dressler, trapped in a loveless marriage. Their hungry, lustful liasons bring neither of them any real emotional satisfaction - just seem to grow their perversions and offer fleeting escape from their own empty realities. The couple meet under bridges, in trashy alleys, beside grotty riverbanks and seedy hotels. Light was never meant to shine on their midnight cavorting. Van Dressler experiences vivid, lurid and sadistic dreams and fantasies as his relationship with Crystal drifts over 12 months. At the same time he and his wife are seeking counselling - she admitting that she can't sleep worried that her husband will strangle her. The husband can't sleep - a throwback to his childhood bedwetting years - and Crystal can't sleep, maybe because her daughter is dying or is life only real when she can feel the pain of brutal sex? This is a dark story of madness, hopelessness, numbness and pain. But it's a page turner, very well-written. We, the reader, are sucked into this world as surely as we walked those streets at night"

Wendy O'Hanlon - Acres Australia

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The Book of Lilith

My second novel, the Book of Lilith (coming in 2012), was shortlisted for the 2009 Australian / Vogel award. A prestigious literary prize for writers under the age of 35.

It was described by the judges (Cate Kennedy, Margo Lanagan, Matt Rubinstein and Geordie Williamson) as:

"The grandest of grand guignols. Oozing with sex, violence and the blackest of comedy, the Book of Lilith recalls de Sade, Kathy Acker and William Burroughs. In the sheer antipodean exuberance of its characters trangressions, however Markham's novel is sui generis"

Matt Rubinstein called it:

"A seething subconcious full of dark wonders... a compelling imagination at play, a sophisticated voice and a lot of black comedy"

The award was taken out by joint winners Lisa Lang for Utopian Man, and Kristel Thornell for Night Street. Both great books and deserving winners.

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Attempting to recapture the arrival and departure of his ex-lover, to decipher her meaning in his life, wayway husband Van Dressler set off on an obsessional journey through a labyrinth of memories and dreams, traversing nightscapes and cityscapes, from the lot of rundown hotel to the impeccable bathroom of his marital home and back again... Crowding in along the way, to help and confuse him, are an urban militiaman, a murderer, a dying girl who may or may not exist, an assortment of shades, streetwalkers, outcasts, insomniacs, and severed heads... Until, finally, he comes to realise that he is suffering from "The Narcrosis Syndrome".

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