Friday at the Nobody Inn

by Mark Hayhurst

My question to you Steve is this; do you want to look back later in life and regret never having tried this, or do you want to look back proud and think Jesus Christ! That was fucking mental?!"

And with those words he was officially SOLD. Struggling northern band Jimbob Rifkin begin to follow a path of madness, mayhem, mania, and a relentless descent into self-induced destruction. Their only hope; that one way or another by the end of the day, it will all be over. They'll either be dead, in prison or completely in the clear.

Over the course of six consecutive Fridays their secrets will burst at the seamswith sick, twisted and hilarious consequences.

Warning: Contains sex, drugs, rock & roll, violence, murder, necrophilia, racism, sexism, sizeism, homophobia, disabilism...

Cry of the Justice Bird

by Jon Haylett

Jon Haylett Winner of 'The Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Bridport Prize debuts his first novel The Cry of the Justice Bird.

Boromundi, a small African state, ravaged by civil war…

Rebecca Wise and Annabel Mbanga, two young women on an outing, are dragged from their minibus into the roadside mud, raped, and horribly mutilated.

Devastated by the death of the girl he loves but unaware of the crime behind it, Armstrong McKay flies out to bring Rebecca’s body home. Amid the dancing, drink and catharsis of Rebecca’s wake, he meets Temba Mbanga, Annabel’s husband, who reveals the brutal truth.

Faced with a weak government and the severed stump of the Boromundian legal system, the two men wrestle with a stark choice: turn aside as the authorities wash their hands of murder, or mete out justice themselves.

In the darkness of the early morning rain, surrounded by the grating cry of Kisasi the Justice Bird, they make their decision: to track down the murderers one by one – and execute them.

Only then will the Justice Bird be silent…