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The Axe & Grindstone

"the opening scene is one of the realest evocations of Friday night in a 2010s British pub."

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"Potential conflict of interest: This book is published by my current publisher (the very lovely Bad Press Ink). But no one has asked me to think that the opening scene is one of the realest evocations of Friday night in a 2010s pub in a shitty British town. I can feel my shoes sticking to the floor behind the bar; I can hear the young regulars begging for one last round of Sambuca. Most of all, I can feel the half-weary, half-angry, ‘I’m tired and sober, and I want you lot to fuck off clubbing.’ The book then takes a left-turn into pub-based sci-fi, and even then, you can tell that this is written by a guy who’s spent as much time leaning on the bar and observing as he has soaking up Dr Who."

Check out our guest blog post '10 Favourite Drinking Scenes in Books' by author of and The Sadness of The King George Shaun Patrick Hand.

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