Sunday, September 14, 2025
Trumpet Face
My new book is a short novel, a comedic fantasy full of strange characters and stranger incidents. It is the first book in the "Knick Knack Trilogy" but the three books can be read in any order because they are also self-contained. The other two volumes will be published before long. Each book will be graced with an Introduction by a renowned author.
With an Introduction by Michael Moorcock, Trumpet Face is the first of the three to be written and the first to be published. Influenced by Ronald Firbank, Nathanael West, Boris Vian, Flann O'Brien, Donald Barthelme, and Moorcock himself, it is a light absurdist adventure, a surreal comedy, an experiment with lateral thinking, and a fictive application of the alternative logics of wordplay and ideas association.
The book is available as a paperback from Incanubula Press and will soon be available as an ebook from Gibbon Moon Books. The publisher's back cover description of the novel runs as follows:
"The explorer who can turn his head into a trumpet if he tries really hard has crashed his balloon again, an accident that leads to him becoming the guest of a very strange household. He is introduced to the members of the tribe, including a living suit of armour, levitating skull, sentient reflection, and the woman or women in a state of quantum superposition he is fated to fall in love with.
In a world ruled by the flux of wordplay and ideas-association rather than ordinary cause and effect, he must adapt quickly to the demands of lateral logic or perish. He must learn to blow impossible fanfares with his own face to secure his future."
# posted by Rhys Hughes @ 11:44 AM 
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