The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow | 
At Sydney Writers' Festival, Denton said he's always had a fascination with rain, and wanted to play with a society that's never seen the sun. The title draws on Goethe's poem Der Erlkoenig.
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At Sydney Writers' Festival, Denton said he's always had a fascination with rain, and wanted to play with a society that's never seen the sun. The title draws on Goethe's poem Der Erlkoenig.
Boozy BookClub night! The barman makes us all a cocktail inspired by the book. For this Irish dystopian debut novel he created “The King” - Irish whiskey, lime, honey and Guinness- is sure made the conversation flow!!! #bookclubrocks #mighthaveaheadachetomorrow
so-soFictitious language, interludes, play script excepts & shifting narrators, make this novel a bit hard to follow at times. When the narrative broke by a change of style /authorship, I found myself asking is this getting in the way, or helping create complexity in the story? For me, on first reading, it gets in the way. The book is very atmospheric - dark, damp,drunken and drug fuelled dreams create a real dystopian sense of despair and lawlessness.
That‘s the great thing about Bookclub - reading something you might never have chosen. #bookclubsarecool
