Andrew McEwan


Biography

I failed English at school primarily because my handwriting was so bad; that and I fancied Mrs large the teacher. She was, ironically, only little. But my mind was anywhere but in a book. Leaving aged 16 I found myself unemployed and started reading books I found in my sister's bedroom, Mr Arkadin by Orson Welles being amongst the first. Then I read One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich and it remains one of my favourite novels to this day. I still have the same copy, and it still has the Hookergate Comprehensive stamp in the front... It wasn't long before I started writing, really badly as my grammar was awful, but Mrs Large must have made some impression (beyond the above) as I soon got my spelling and puncuation sorted and my sentences have been shrinking ever since. Then I discovered Thomas Pynchon. If you're good enough you can get away with anything, I thought, immersed in Gravity's Rainbow. Nearly 30 years later I think I may even be getting somewhere near.

My latest novels The Orange Propeller and Ocellus are available in paperback from online booksellers.

Where to find Andrew McEwan online


Where to buy in print


Books

Armwrestling the Dead    by Andrew McEwan
Price: $0.99 USD. 88540 words. Published on June 24, 2012. Fiction.

When an alien world mutates, who is to say what is and what is not human?
Underlay    by Andrew McEwan
Price: $0.99 USD. 72040 words. Published on June 17, 2012. Fiction.

'Meet Thorpe, who has a franchise from Death. Meet his car, a Ventura large and black...'
Disko    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 44310 words. Published on June 16, 2012. Fiction.

The Beach At Reality. Coal, bad sex and cosmic misadventure.
Grasslands    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 28700 words. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction.

Through H-shaped windows. My name is Broken. I fix things. It's what I do.
Subvision    by Andrew McEwan
Price: $0.99 USD. 56570 words. Published on April 18, 2012. Fiction.

Scherzo Trepan's journey to the underworld begins each morning on the banks of a river. A rusted fridge is his elevator and to the sweat and heat of an incinerator plant he travels. Until one day he wakes up in a hospital to the sight of aliens landing and the sound of a snapped on rubber glove.
Mus Peechy's Other End    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 24720 words. Published on April 18, 2012. Fiction.

The comedy of horrors prevalent in a man's head.
Imbroglio    by Andrew McEwan
Price: $0.99 USD. 55170 words. Published on April 18, 2012. Fiction.

Life manifests as an ovegrown, petulant baby, whilst melancholy flirts dangerously with an identity crisis.
Warm Refrigerator    by Andrew McEwan
Price: $0.99 USD. 40490 words. Published on April 16, 2012. Fiction.

An unfortunate private eye washes up in a town out of time and off the map.
The Long Walk Up From The Beach    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 34460 words. Published on March 11, 2012. Fiction.

The end of one universe and the beginning of another.
Rocket Fuel    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 30080 words. Published on February 28, 2012. Fiction.

A ship. A crew. A version of reality.
The Pale Maraud    by Andrew McEwan
Price: Free! 40330 words. Published on February 15, 2012. Fiction.

Death's mute champion on a bloody sojourn through the warring seasons of Hell.

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