Howard Jackson

Howard Jackson has written three books that will be published in the next 12 months.  These are:

‘Mortal Shuffle’

‘Innocent Mosquitoes’

‘Treat Me Nice – Elvis and the Creature from Frankenstein’.

‘Mortal Shuffle’ and ‘Innocent Mosquitoes’ will be published next year.

‘Mortal Shuffle’ is a thriller with a distinctive style that features a drug addicted and self-destructive detective, Nathan Wrench. The book has a modern Gothic setting and its murder mystery combines with the complicated behaviour of Nathan to produce an unusual novel that contains action, romance and humour.

‘Innocent Mosquitoes’ describes the journey around Brazil made by the author but invents an independent narrator called Alfred. The purpose of the journey is to visit Canudos in the back lands of Brazil. Canudos is where in 1896 a millennial community of 30,000 Brazilians was slaughtered by the Republican Army. The narrator imagines meeting famous characters from the history of Brazil and these experiences and other memories explain the roots of Brazil and why the journey is important to Alfred.

‘Treat Me Nice’ analyses the circumstances of the career of Elvis Presley. Comparing the career and Elvis to the Creature from Frankenstein the book explains the tragedy of a wasted talent. The book is sympathetic to Elvis and identifies the significant musical achievements but insists a failure to nurture potential, a blind faith in galvanisation and an unwillingness to accept the singularity of Elvis contributed to a tragedy. Treat Me Nice will be published in August 2011.

Extracts from all three books can be found to your right.