Pulp Pusher: Media pimpage for A TASTE OF ASHES

Thursday, 12 November 2015

Media pimpage for A TASTE OF ASHES

Me - being a jakey in the Auld Toon.

A TASTE OF ASHES continues its media spree with a bunch of reviews and articles in the press of late.

First off was a fine piece in the Ayrshire Post, later pasted onto The Daily Record website in full. I nipped back to the Auld Toon for this interview, and posed as a rather convincing jakey for renowned snapper Alister Firth in the pic, left.

The Big Issue selected their Top 5 whodunnits this week and parachuted A TASTE OF ASHES into the No.2 slot. Not bad considering Gone Girl was No.3 and The Silence of the Lambs No.4!

And The Sunday Post featured a piece about my visits to Arran - the setting for the climax of A TASTE OF ASHES - on Sunday, like they do.

:: A TASTE OF ASHES is still going for under a quid on Amazon right now.

"A rare and heartfelt fable."
-Paul Sayer, Whitbread-winner

"The Last Tiger is Tony Black's most brilliant and resonant novel so far."
-Barry Graham, Winner of the American Library Association book of the year

"Unexpected, moving and magical."
-Emlyn Rees, International bestseller

"It's great ... creates a genuinely engaging picture of strangers in a strange land, as well as carving a haunting space between historical reality and timeless fable."
-Nick Barlay, Granta 'Best of Young British Novelists'

"In this, his next book, Tony Black demonstrates what a talented and versatile writer he is. His prose is at times spare and at times poetic as Tony delivers up a fascinating and moving novel."
-Michael Malone, author of The Guillotine Choice

'A beautiful, powerful tale to move the hardest heart.'

-The Sun

'Black put his heart and soul into this, and the very personal, cathartic nature of the novel makes it a hard one to put down.'

-The Herald

'This is a tale of father and son, man and wife, and how a journey to be reunited can mean rediscovering part of yourself that was buried long ago – and Black tells it perfectly.'

-Scotland on Sunday

'Heartfelt and incredibly moving, the sins of the fathers are confronted in a narrative that seethes with raw, blistering emotions.'

-The Daily Record

"This is an elegiac noir for the memory of a place, delivered in a prose as bleakly beautiful as the setting."
-The Guardian

"Tony Black is clearly the major existentialist crime writer working today and The Storm Without is also his most humanistic book."
-You Would Say That, Wouldn't You?

"Highly entertaining, fast paced and tightly, almost sparingly, written."
-Undiscovered Scotland

"An excellent piece of work ... lean ... pacy ... packs one hell of a punch. Everything you’d want from a Tony Black book is here."
-Crime Fiction Lover