Bearing in mind their hit rate recently, it might be worth keeping an eye out for the Indeterminate Creatures by Alan Apperley, soon to be released into the world by Tindal Street Press (on 25 March, as I understand it). It’ll be the one with the cover that looks something like this:
From the blurb accompanying this news we learn that the book is:
an insightful and inventive turning thirty novel with a wonderful cast of eccentric characters – and a remarkable surprise from history.
And that the author is:
Alan Apperley is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Wolverhampton University and a member of 1980s cult post-punk band The Nightingales, who played more Peel sessions than any other band excluding The Fall. The Nightingales re-formed in 2004, with Alan on lead guitar. INDETERMINATE CREATURES is his delightfully witty and erudite debut novel.
Amazon’s description of the book is a little fuller:
Hope and Michael celebrate their first anniversary together with rain-soaked, drink-fuelled sex that results in conception. She’s a librarian at the local university; he’s a stock controller at a plastics company with a fascination for the migration of the Monarch butterfly and for his best friend’s girlfriend, the copper-fringed Evette. Hope and Michael view the nine months ahead with honesty, anxiety, duplicity and excitement but, most of all, very differently form one another indeed.
Reminds me of the old advert ‘We want to be doing the garden’!
Sounds very entertaining – I must look out for it. Thanks for posting.