Looking for something to read this weekend?
Better known as John Christopher, author of The Death of Grass and The Tripods tetralogy, Sam Youd started his career writing straight (aka ‘literary’) fiction, very different in tone from the dystopian and genre novels which made his name. This coming Sunday – April 16th – marks the 101st anniversary of his birth. In celebration, The SYLE Press will be making available for free download, the Kindle version of his 1951 novel Babel Itself.
Babel Itself focuses on the strange shifting times in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the motley sample of humanity that has washed up on the shores of a down-at-heel London boarding house. Their mutual proximity enforced by shared impoverishment, they decide that perhaps a séance might assuage the evening boredom before the nightly trip to the pub …
Babel Itself is free on Kindle from 15th till 17th April. Note: Amazon begins its promotions from midnight Pacific Standard Time!).
And if you would like to find out more about Sam’s non-genre writing, we’re also promoting other SYLE Press Sam Youd titles – The Winter Swan, A Palace of Strangers, Holly Ash, Messages of Love, ... – all are available on Kindle this weekend, at reduced prices!
... as well as The Gull’s Kiss by Peter Graaf (which Sam originally wrote under his own name).
Feel free to pass on to anyone else who might be interested!
Best wishes
Nick
The SYLE Press
http://www.thesylepress.com/
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