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Independent. Manchester/Salford. Debut release, To Rise in the Dark (2024) Second release, Hunter (2025)

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · May 8

“…a very funny, discursive detective story on the Pynchon tip…”
A dachshund goes missing, a disgraced author disappears, a local death cult may or may not be on the loose.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...

WHEN ALL SEEMS LOST…
…CALL HUNTER
an ebook and paperback of Hunter by Nick J. Brown.
Cover features a dachshund with a stethoscope

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1h

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2d

Happy New Pynchon Novel Day to all who celebrate!

A Thomas Pynchon balloon in an NY parade

A copy of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 2d

‘…a very funny detective story on the Pynchon tip…’
A dachshund goes missing, a disgraced author disappears, a local death cult may or may not be on the loose. When all seems lost, call Hunter.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...

A copy of Hunter by Nick J. Brown and the quote, ‘…a very funny detective story on the Pynchon tip…’

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 7d

This is all very welcome but for the mistake in the final paragraphs; Shelagh Delaney was from Salford!
Get it right MANCHESTER Guardian!

Hopefully, after a period of much talk and little action, the city that gave us Shelagh Delaney, Caroline Aherne and the Gallagher brothers can lead the way.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 9d

What do they write in a script before Benedict Cumberbatch enters a scene?
Cue Cumberbatch.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 9d

Withnail and I remake films end scene with unorthodox lead actor…

‘And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’

Gema @gema.bsky.social · 10d

Urban wildlife of south east London

A Henry Hoover sans nozzle contemplating freedom on the streets of south east London

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 10d

Cheers, Andy!

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Andy ❤️⬆️％🇺🇦 @andymoorhouse.bsky.social · 11d

This was a great read, made me laugh out loud a lot, which is what we all need nowadays, right? Don’t miss out 👇

Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

99p ebook Sale!
A disgraced author disappears, a dachshund goes missing, a local death cult may or may not be on the loose. When all seems lost, call Hunter…
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 12d

Last few days at 99p! Goes back to full price on Wednesday.

Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

99p ebook Sale!
A disgraced author disappears, a dachshund goes missing, a local death cult may or may not be on the loose. When all seems lost, call Hunter…
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunter-When-...

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 14d

ruin a book with a car

Tinker Tailor Nissan Micra

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 14d

ruin a book with a car

Gravity’s Renault

Nevada Jones @nevadajones.bsky.social · 14d

ruin a book with a car

To Kill A Thunderbird

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 14d

In other Novelists at The Cricket news, Samuel Beckett fell asleep at Lord's during the 1961 Ashes Test.

While he was in England, he accompanied the wheelchair-bound Harold Hobson to a crowded Lords Cricket Ground for the Test Match between England and Australia. It was a low scoring game which ground slowly to an English defeat and Beckett felt that he let himself down by falling fast asleep during the match, but he enjoyed the atmosphere and being there with Hobson, whom he liked.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 14d

Stephen King researching his novel The Stand with the late Dickie Bird…

Umpire Dickie Bird (left) and novelist Stephen King during King's visit to Trent Bridge, 23 August 1998 © PA Photos

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16d

New James Joyce novel just dropped...

Pucker Factor 10
Memoir of a US Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
by James Joyce.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 16d

A big thank you to all who have bought, liked, shared and supported my books. Cheers!

Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 16d

1,000th book sold!
Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy and supported along the way!

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 16d

Two paperback covers and two pictures showing figures of book sales.

Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 16d

1,000th book sold!
Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy and supported along the way!

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 26d

The Viv Savage Detectives.

#spinaltapnovels

Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 26d

The Viv Savage Detectives.

#spinaltapnovels

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 26d

"Call me Saucy Jack."

#spinaltapnovels

Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 26d

Fufkin The Time Of Cholera

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 26d

TJ Davidson’s, also immortalised in the Love Will Tear Us Apart video and my book…

A bloke and a plaque

Site of the iconic
T.J. DAVIDSON'S
TIM RECORDS AND
REHEARSAL STUDIOS
From 1977-1981
Became the epicentre in the explosion of Manchester music

Legendary Joy Division
studios marked with plaque

The first few hundred yards are comprised of nothing but a car park to our left and identical, redbrick and grey apartment blocks to our right, one of which occupies the geographical space that was TJ Davidson's, a recording studio and rehearsal rooms where Joy Division filmed the 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' video. Someone lives there now. Not with the same floor or the walls or graffiti riddled door, though I like to think something remains. The ghost of lan Curtis, perhaps, with his guitar shaped like some lost Dali design for a revamped twenty pence piece, while five yards away the renter/owner watches this same scene on a tiny rectangle.

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · 28d

Last day at 99p for a booze-fuelled odyssey through Manchester as the daughter of a dead cult singer drags her dad’s former bandmates around the city in search of a truth they’d rather remained buried…
www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Dark-Wh...

A selection of Manchester pubs, venues and other things that feature in To Rise in the Dark.

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Buster Keaton and Marlon Brando before a snowy landscape and a single tree.

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

‘Medium-paced Horses’.

Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

‘Gravy’s Rainbow’.

Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminish a book.

‘The Habit’.

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Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

What price the rock ‘n’ roll dream? 99p, that’s what!
Released a year ago today, the ebook of To Rise in the Dark is only 99p for the next week on Amazon!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG

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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · Sep 5

What price the rock ‘n’ roll dream? 99p, that’s what!
Released a year ago today, the ebook of To Rise in the Dark is only 99p for the next week on Amazon!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG

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