Online Book Launch: Clark Gable and His Plastic Duck

With a new lockdown pending the book launch for Philip Tew’s new novel, Clark Gable and His Plastic Duck, will take place online on Zoom on 22nd October 2020 at 15:00 hours (UK time). Please do try to participate: you’re all welcome and we can accommodate up to 500 people!  

This is a Brunel Writers / Hillingdon Literary Festival (HiLF) Event. 

To register for a ticket please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-clark-gable-and-his-plastic-duck-tickets-122202225145  

Advance copies of the new novel are available at discount rate of £7:59 from Brigand Press: https://www.brigand.london/books/clark-gable-and-his-plastic-duck-philip-tew

1991, an alternative Britain you won't remember—.    

Prime Minister, Alan Clark, appoints Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher, a pariah since losing the Falklands in 1982, to key cabinet posts, their authoritarianism opposed by militaristic domestic groups.   

Bill Pugh laments past betrayals, a dead-end job and his doomed relationship. Entangled by a shadowy world of a privatized security apparatus and its violent antagonists, Bill’s life seems blighted. Who to trust: a louche and erratic school-friend; a strangely familiar new lover; or, a government thug closely resembling a 1930s film-star?        

In this world of love, greed and brutality, new digital technologies confuse Bill: power resides in both the pixelated screen and the barrel of a gun. Craving salvation, he traverses memories and a most bewildering present.  

Queries including press to: Philip.tew@brunel.ac.uk