Böcker av Ian Walters

Crocanthropus is an absurdist humorous short novel that proposes an evolutionary mistake that produces a crocodile-ancestored creature taking hominid form. The creature brings grief to all that encounter it. It combines the horrific legacy of a reptilian past, a feral child, and narcissist personality. It barks. It eats human flesh. It is wild, uneducated, nasty and mean. The novel also pokes fun at the reviews for over the top praise for good writing that inevitably accompany new fiction releases. Some examples of this absurd gratuitous praise reviewing are included as a component of the novel itself. In tandem with this, the body text of the novel comprises ridiculously bad writing, cocking a snook at the often very ordinary prose that is published to lavish acclaim.

Princess of Chaos... This is a tale about a protagonist with small-scale regal ambitions to dominate. It deals with chaos, mayhem, anti-order, and system-wrecking, as well as being a document to bullying, emotional violence and self concern at all costs. A sweet girl who suffers badly in the upbringing stakes, beginning life in poverty and neglect, comes to adulthood bearing features that reflect her origins. It is a tale of deceit, addiction and crime, of one poor soul's careless disregard for the law and for any semblance of order and decency that may attempt to insert themselves into her daily existence. If there was to be a movie made from its content it could aptly be titled Princess Chaos.

Can things begin by cross species reproduction? Can a horse have such an influence on a woman and her consequent offspring? Can nature be violated in this way? A strange tale of a Centaur-like creature born of woman, living with pain and disadvantages, easing them with cheap sherry and poetry writing. When working days are done, life on a park bench takes form. The old being''s end comes with an even stranger creature, Princess Darnergy, who ushers in Vuk''s denouement.

Hanh Dien is a novel set in Vietnam at the turn of the millennium. The eponymous protagonist is addicted to gambling and power. For her these incorporate key motifs of fear and misery, both of which she aspires to bring to those upon whom she turns her torch. Caught in her lights, we see antagonists' life plans destroyed as their hopes and dreams descend into misery and death.