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Explore the literary work of Rhys Clarke. His work is dripping with dark comedy, political satire and subversive dystopian worlds.
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About My Novels

What makes my novels different?

Relevant Stories

As a writer, I am heavily inspired by significant cultural and political events, often drawing on major social upheaval for key plot points. My novels are crafted to exaggerate and reflect the many absurdities that emerge from modern politics.

Blending Genres

My work avoids being constrained by the limits of traditional literary categories, and often combines elements from contrasting (and complementary) genres. My novels blend features from political satire, science-fiction, dark comedy, fantasy, and dystopia.

Challenging Stories

Not one to pull punches, my novels often explore controversial topics, frequently intertwining pressing moral debates, tumultuous political clashes, and subversive beliefs around complex and challenging narratives. I am not afraid to humanise characters that are typically pigeon-holed into simple black-and-white categories, highlighting the deep complexity that underpins humans from all walks of life.

Literary Influences

My writing draws on a wide range of literary influences, including the darkly comic novels of Martin Amis and John Niven, the political satire of George Orwell and Sinclair Lewis, and the experimental narrative voices of Irvine Welsh.

Experimental Styles

Despite being an avid reader, I have found that a large quantity of modern fiction, even the bestsellers, have been hampered by a curious uniformity of writing style. Many of the stories that line the windows of mainstream bookshops follow the same narrative voice, depict the same types of characters, explore the same kinds of themes…I want my novels to contribute to a new wave of experimental literary fiction, blending and playing with alternate (and neglected) prose styles, featuring unconventional, strange new characters.

New Worlds

I enjoy taking readers into strange, bizarre alternate realities where our contemporary beliefs and fears are warped into absurd, nightmarish hellscapes. Being able to immerse oneself in weird, but entertaining new worlds is something that I have always enjoyed as a lover of fiction–and it is a feeling that I am keen to pass on to my own readers.

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Campaigning For The Apocalypse

A political satire about a young man with dreams of overthrowing the government.

Campaigning For The Apocalypse is a darkly-comic, political satire about “Mark,” a nihilistic ex-student who thinks that the only way to save the country from the stagnant wasteland of late-stage capitalism is to destroy the political establishment, bringing about a state of complete freedom and anarchy that he calls “the paradigm shift.” Unfortunately, he’s convinced that the only way to do this is to help bring a gang of unstable and dangerous fascists into power. Lurching from political catastrophe to moral crisis, Mark is forced to question his commitment to political revolution when his actions attract the attention of the sinister far-right activist, Lorcan Peel…

Campaigning for the Apocolypse
Campaigning for the Apocolypse
Campaigning For The Apocalypse

A political satire about a young man with dreams of overthrowing the government.

Campaigning For The Apocalypse is a darkly-comic, political satire about “Mark,” a nihilistic ex-student who thinks that the only way to save the country from the stagnant wasteland of late-stage capitalism is to destroy the political establishment, bringing about a state of complete freedom and anarchy that he calls “the paradigm shift.” Unfortunately, he’s convinced that the only way to do this is to help bring a gang of unstable and dangerous fascists into power. Lurching from political catastrophe to moral crisis, Mark is forced to question his commitment to political revolution when his actions attract the attention of the sinister far-right activist, Lorcan Peel…

Carnivorous
Carnivorous

Exploring the dark underbelly of the world’s first officially vegan state.

Adrian Sawyer should be a happy man: he’s one of the most successful novelists of the twenty-first century; a man whose literary work helped form the bedrock of a revolution responsible for transforming the United Kingdom (now called The New Union) into the world’s first official, ethical vegan state. He’s rich, admired, and married to a beautiful philosopher; a cultural icon. Unfortunately, Sawyer is haunted by a terrible secret: he (and, seemingly, only he) knows that his novel that helped inspire a political revolution is actually rather mediocre. 

Worse than that, as Sawyer launches a tour for his newly published memoirs, he finds himself targeted by a mysterious online conspiracy theorist called The Inquisitor, who claims to have undeniable proof that Sawyer has been eating contraband meat in secret. As Sawyer attempts to unmask his digital stalker, he finds himself uncovering terrible secrets about the dark heart of the New Union. Secrets that, if exposed, might lead to another, far more violent revolution, this time targeting men like Sawyer…

The Windzer Clan

If the Royal Family lived on a Council Estate, they’d be the sort of family your parents would tell you to avoid.

Meet “Queen Liz.” She’s forty-two, morbidly obese, unemployed, and proud of it. A chain-smoking, sexually promiscuous loudmouth, unafraid and unashamed to air her considerably filthy laundry in public. She is also a hugely popular celebrity and the star of Channel X’s longest-running reality TV show: The Scroungers

Egged on by a jeering morbidly, fascinated public, as well as their own desire to keep their names in the headlines, Queen Liz and her equally hideous brood catapult themselves from one scandal to another. Racist pub brawls, hooliganism, petty criminality, gambling, fraud, pornography…through it all, the Windzers know they have one thing that holds the family together: each other. Or do they?

The Windzer Clan
The Windzer Clan
The Windzer Clan

If the Royal Family lived on a Council Estate, they’d be the sort of family your parents would tell you to avoid.

Meet “Queen Liz.” She’s forty-two, morbidly obese, unemployed, and proud of it. A chain-smoking, sexually promiscuous loudmouth, unafraid and unashamed to air her considerably filthy laundry in public. She is also a hugely popular celebrity and the star of Channel X’s longest-running reality TV show: The Scroungers

Egged on by a jeering morbidly, fascinated public, as well as their own desire to keep their names in the headlines, Queen Liz and her equally hideous brood catapult themselves from one scandal to another. Racist pub brawls, hooliganism, petty criminality, gambling, fraud, pornography…through it all, the Windzers know they have one thing that holds the family together: each other. Or do they?

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