Billy Liar (Penguin Decades)

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A founding editor of the magazines Billy Liar and Liar Republic, he has written extensively for TV, film, radio and the theatre. Uncommon. Previous books include Cunawabi, The Rat’s Mirror, The Last Bus, Beer & Skittles, Vermeer’s Dark Parlour, Big Bella’s Dirty Cafe, Dreams Days Break Portfolio (with photographer David Gray), Three Men on the Metro (with Andy Croft and Bill Herbert) and union: new and selected poems. The result is primitive cartography, a book about living under strange stars and learning the language of sunlight. Exchanging the cold North-East for bougainvillea, kookaburras and cane toads, Summers started mapping the emotional geography of his new world. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.

• Author:
• Paul Summers