To no doubt universal amazement, I may sometimes use this post to promote my new novel, “Flirting at the Funeral” published by Cillian Press in September 2012. There is more information about the book on: www.cillianpress.co.uk www.chriskeil.eu
Flirting at the Funeral – an extract
The city resisted his memories of it. Wheeling sea-gulls, their gullets full of fish, swung in from the estuary to feed their squalling chicks on warehouse roofs around the docks. Morgan stood near the water’s edge in Praça do Comércio looking out across the Tagus, watching the commuter ferries pushing back and forth across the river from the suburbs and …
Cillian Press – publishers of “Flirting at the Funeral”
A writer, a designer, a publisher, a brilliant pub (The Dulcimer in Chorlton): working life doesn’t get any better than this!
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL
Flirting at the Funeral is getting some fabulous customer reviews on amazon: intellectually sharp, emotionally sophisticated, alert to imagery and metaphor, to the musicality of language – exactly the kind of readers I write for!
Flirting at the Funeral: a magisterial review on Amazon
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Thrice in Europa 1 Oct 2012 By Mynydd du. Flirting at the Funeral (Cillian Press, 2012) Format:Paperback “Flirting at the Funeral” is the third in a sequence of novels by Chris Keil. Like Keil himself, whose mother was a native Welsh speaker, his inspiration springs from rural Wales where he lives & works but …
Flirting at the Funeral
“Flirting at the Funeral is a philosophical novel in the best sense, beautifully written, as if G.M. Hopkins had turned to prose and lived to see the modern age… a very good novel – the product of a formidable and original mind.” Ben Shephard, author of: A War of Nerves; After Daybreak; The Long Road Home
Chris Keil’s new novel
Chris Keil’s new novel – “Flirting at the Funeral” – available in September.
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL
Flirting at the Funeral
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL
Flirting at the Funeral will be published by Cillian Press in September 2012. “I really like the group of characters, and the control of all the different strands is really strong. Some lovely images too – the dead twin village; the fire of paperbacks; the matchstick cathedral; the old lady pumping her own heart. I love the mix of settings, …
Flirting at the…
Flirting at the Funeral Below them, a power-boat backed slowly out of its berth in the marina, twin outboards bubbling and grumbling at its stern. Matty settled the bottle in the ice-bucket, watching the boat as it swung through a half-turn in the crowded dock and gathered way, heading for the harbour-mouth and open water. A young man in a …
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL
BREAKING NEWS: Coming out in autumn 2012 – keep watching this space!
Flirting at the funeral
Coming soon – watch this space!
June 2010
I was thinking about the Beach Boys, and about the movement of regret that arcs across the five years between Surfin USA and Do It Again, and about the melancholy resonances of that second song, with its sun-tanned girls and its beautiful coastline; because, of course, you can’t do it again. There is only ever a first time. I suppose …