Vile was released on November 3rd 2019 and is the debut novel of Keith Crawford. It is an epic science fantasy novel. Here's a little about the book:
Elianor Paine is a Magistrate of the Peace in the Kingdom of
Trist and a republican secret agent. She has 6 days to subvert her
investigation, supplant war-hero Lord Vile, then coerce his adult children to
start a revolution, before her masters discover the truth and have her killed.
Just how far is she willing to go? And can she change the world without
changing herself?
About the Author
Keith Crawford is a retired Navy Officer, a disabled
veteran, a Doctor of Law & Economics, a barrister, a stay-at-home Dad, and
a writer. He has written for collections of scholarly works, academic journals,
and newspapers including The Economist. He has had more than thirty plays
recorded or produced for stage, been listed in a variety of short story
competitions (in spite of his hatred of short stories), and runs a radio
production company, www.littlewonder website, which regularly runs competitions
promoted by the BBC to help find, develop and encourage new writers.
In 2014 he was lecturing at Sciences Po in Paris and
negotiating a contract to write a book on banking regulation, when he and his
wife discovered to their delight that they were due to have their first child.
Rather than writing more work that would only be read by his poor students, and
then misquoted by politicians, he decided he would do his bit to stick his
fingers up at the patriarchy and stay home to look after his own kids rather
than the grown-up kids of rich people. Two more children swiftly followed.
Keith has discovered that if you recite Stick Man backwards you get the lyrics
to AD/DC’s Highway to Hell.
This (looking after the kids, not satanic rites with Stick
Man) allowed him to support his wife’s career, which appears to be heading for
the stratosphere, and also gave him the space to write about swordfights and
explosions. And spaceships. All of which are more fun than banking regulation.
As an extension to his work in radio production, he set up his own small press,
and his first novel, Vile, is due to be published in December 2019. More novels
will swiftly follow, like buses in countries that don’t privatise the bus
companies.
Thanks to Keith Crawford, and Love Books Tours for a place on the event.
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