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With just over a week left in the Clinicality Press January sale, we’ve made some further reductions to our titles.

There’s now 30% off The Bastardizer by Bill Thunder, which means it’s only £5.25.

What the critics have said:

‘…recommended [for] readers who like their tales short and violent, and their heroes as brutal as their villains.’ – Nicholas Towasser, Library Thing.

‘Thunder’s debut at once reinvigorates and exhausts the well-worn detective / crime fiction genre, presenting a classic pulp first-person narrative with a contemporary and deeply misanthropic twist.’ – Christopher Nosnibor

‘…a good change of pace from the normal genre of books.’ – Goodreads.com

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Plus, our genre-smashing collection of poetry and prose Clinical Brutal… An Anthology of Writing With Guts has a whopping 40% off, making it just £4.79! Features: Pablo Vision / Kestra Faye / Jim Lopez / Radcliff Gregory / Díre McCain / Stewart Home / A.D. Hitchin / Christopher Nosnibor / Richard Kovitch / Lee Kwo / S. F. Grimm / David Mark Dannov / D M Mitchell / Jock Drummond / Lucius Rofocale / Stuart Bateman / Karl van Cleave / Vincent Clasper / Constance Stadler / Bill Thunder / Christopher Bateman / Simon Phillips / Maria Gornell

What the critics have said:

‘These are works driven by a raw edginess arising from a world of violence and fragmentation that the authors are seemingly trying to comprehend… at its best this clinical, brutal writing can in many instances be cynical, beautiful writing.’ – Christopher Willard, Bookpleasures.com

‘… a nauseating and very surreal collection of short stories and poems that captured my attention from the front cover, to the very last page… Reading the whole book in one sitting is overwhelming and really messes with your head.’ – Victoria Gonzales, ReaderViews

‘An interesting… experiment in forcing its reader to confront the “beast within”.’ – Lavanya Karthick, Bookpleasures.com

 

Finally, we’ve knocked 10% off Christopher Nosnibor’s dual-narrative brain-bender From Destinations Set, which is now available for just £9.00. It’s also available to download for FREE.

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To order all of these and more, go to Clinicality Press’ shop: http://clinicalitypress.co.uk/Publications.aspx – But hurry, the sale ends on January 31st!

More January sale madness… in fact, this isn’t a sale, it’s a giveaway. Christopher Nosnibor’s From Destinations Set is now available as a free download until the end of the month.

From Destinations Set follows a brief period in the lives of Tim and Anthony, who are very different people, leading very different lives, following different careers in different cities. Tim is a conformist: office job, moderately successful, and teetering on the brink of a premature midlife crisis. Anthony is a rebellious non-conformist: a writer who sneers at the hum-drum and derides ‘corporate sell-outs.’ But are they really so very different?

Tim is tortured by the tedium of his job and struggling with his work / life balance. The combined pressures of his circumstances and his mindset are contriving to push him close to losing the plot. The fact that he keeps finding himself in strange places and situations, with no recollection of how he got there only exacerbates his fear that he’s going mental.

Anthony has a book to write, and a deadline. He has plenty of ideas, but is having difficulty expressing them. As time begins to run short, he hits the bottle and embarks on a frenzy of revision, through which author and narrative become difficult to separate from one another.

The two narratives of From Destinations Set trace these characters’ activities as they occur in parallel – not only in terms of time, but also literally, with the page divided into two columns with one story in the left, the other in the right. As events and personalities unravel in each of the two separate stories, the similarities, rather than the differences, become apparent. But more than this, as the two plots develop, questions are raised as to precisely who’s writing the script: is Tim’s dislocation symptomatic of his breakdown, or is there some connection between him and Anthony?

These questions are not intended to be answered: From Destinations Set does not seek narrative closure, and is not primarily a plot-driven work. Instead, the narrative, in which time-shifts and repetition are frequent, is forged from the fabric of everyday life, exposing the idea of ‘character’ and ‘plot’ as social and literary constructs and posing questions to which the reader must find their own answers. To download your free copy, simply click on the link below.

http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/from-destinations-set/14363686

We’ve also got a handful of signed / numbered copies of THE PLAGIARIST left. We’ve knocked a couple of quid off these too. Prices include postage. To order your copy, or any other current Clinicality title, go here: http://clinicalitypress.co.uk/Publications.aspx

A happy new year to all from Clinicality Press! We’re kicking things off in style in the traditional fashion, namely with a January Sale.

Right now, we’re offering a whopping 25% off the paperback edition of THE PLAGIARIST by Christopher Nosnibor, which means it’s down to a mere £5.63!
Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

We’re also knocking 5% off the hardback edition, which is exclusive to Clinicality Press. Order that for £10.44 below:
Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

We’ve hacked 20% off the paperback edition of Bill Thunder’s hard-boiled crime classic The Bastardizer, making it just £6.00. Alternatively, it’s available throughout January as a download for just 99p! To purchase The Bastardizer, go here.

And there’s more… The cult classic collection of cutting-edge poetry and prose that is Clinical, Brutal… An Anthology of Writing with Guts has an immense 25% carved off the RRP, making it just £5.99. To order your copy, click this link.

Keep your eyes on Clinicality over the coming days for more great discounts and exclusive offers, including free downloads, signed editions and more.