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The Barricade
The Barricade oozes originality and violates the rules of plot and storyline with extraordinary success. It’s 1984 and the 28-year-old narrator is grappling with growing up, predestination, the nature of time and metaphysics; fuelling himself with a dozen pints of Courage Best Bitter in a once-elegant Victorian pub in London.
The scene appears banal at first: idle banter, a few people gambling at cards, a little dancing to the jukebox. But with exquisitely detailed description, The Barricade unravels a complex, hidden world of the profound, the tragic, the surreal and the hysterical. All careering to the evening's climactic finale.
The narrator's deeply introvertive analysis and deliciously acerbic observations on anyone and everything around him creates a brilliantly quirky odyssey that leaves the reader exhausted and enriched.
Ten Past Five Publishing , September 2026.
