Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
Feb. 13, 2014
J.W. Carey
Biography
I've lived in the North-West of England my entire life, and in 23 years I haven't managed to achieve a single thing. I write these things because it lets me feel like I've achieved something, and it lets me tell myself that I am something beyond that which I am in my daily life.
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Books
Solpadol II
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 25,360.
Language:
British English.
Published: September 23, 2019
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Poetry » U.K. Poetry
Solpadol II continues the Broken Polemic with humanity at its core; humanity and its desperate, aching need for love and for poetry and for all the things in between. But there is no poetry in small-town England, save the poetics we dig from our own souls.
The Burden
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 28,900.
Language:
British English.
Published: November 14, 2017
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
Robert Amuigh's brother is dead, and it is meaningless. The Burden follows Amuigh’s misunderstanding of himself and the world around him.
A short narrative that struggles to cement the blurred line between identity, mental illness and what it really means to be free in the early 21st century.
Solpadol
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 27,220.
Language:
British English.
Published: May 9, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Solpadol is a story about self-destruction, drug dependency and unrequieted love.
Taking place over the course of a single day, Solpadol is another semi-confessional, semi-fictional piece of work that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. This time, love is the overwhelming theme of the narrative, with much of the day revolving around a single conversation.
Mychandra
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 39,660.
Language:
British English.
Published: January 23, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary
Mychandra follows five days in the life of a man from Wigan, suffering from a modern mental illness.
The Caitiff
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 112,600.
Language:
British English.
Published: December 21, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary
One of the last Homo Sapiens, Cedric Healy is trapped. Trapped by his good job, with its high prospects, trapped by the ghosts of a personal morality in a world evolved beyond the need for one, and trapped by his self-destructive refusal to worship the Money-God. Everything he believes to be human appears to be fading away around him, amongst the tall buildings of the Manchester skyline.
God Metaphor
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 27,050.
Language:
British English.
Published: November 18, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Religious
Carey turns his attention to religion, and spirituality and himself in this fascinating follow-up to Adjective Narcissism.
'The writing [is] engaging and the author's attention to detail [paints] a wonderful picture.' - onlinebookclub.org
Adjective Narcissism
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 24,670.
Language:
English.
Published: November 16, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
A complex portrayal of life through a young man's eyes, over the course of one evening Carey's protagonist finds himself caught in an honest author's exercise in narcissism.
'A quick read, that provokes genuine thought' - onlinebookclub.org
The Desperate Light
by J.W. Carey
Price:
Free!
Words: 5,620.
Language:
British English.
Published: August 4, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Written over the course of one night, Carey tells the story of a man becoming truly lost.
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