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Garth Jones

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Born

Broken Hill, Australia

Website

https://www.passtheamyl.com/

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

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Mongrel Punk | Ozploitation | David Lee Roth | Zodiac Mindwarp | Lemmy ...more

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December 2021

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Garth is a writer from Wilyakali country in the deserts of far western New South Wales, Australia – the Mad Max zone.

His first job was designing ads for phone sex lines; he did time as resident Atheist provocateur at a church newspaper, and drew comics for DAVID LEE ROTH just out of uni.

Garth’s first novel, HOME BREWED, VAMPIRE BULLETS, was shortlisted for a variety of prizes. Walkley award winning journalist Richard Cooke reckons “there’s nothing like Home Brewed... – it’s new, weird, and out there, and that makes it too good not to get into!”

Garth's next project, BLACK PILLS, is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the shit show that is our present reality.

It features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award winning ‘Hug ...more

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Average rating: 4.87 · 55 ratings · 46 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol One 4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Pills 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheapa Skips: The Feel-Bad Sessions '20/21 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol Two it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, Vol Three 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, The Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Get one, or all of my books at a disgustingly low price, with the short story collection ‘Tales From The Fuck-You-Ni-Verse’ now included in two bundles!

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Bad Wisdom

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Garth Jones rated a book it was ok The Green Lantern: Season Two, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
BREAKING: scientists confirm the sound of one person’s head disappearing entirely up their own arse. Liam Sharp’s art, when it appears, is a treat, though.
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Mozza is wrong about Kyle Chandler, but this remains a bunch of loopy fun.
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Garth Jones rated a book it was amazing Kluge by Pip Adam (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was slow going, mainly because you need to sit with the unbottled rage Kluge evokes as it unpacks Pip Adams’ fictional nerd reich’s litany of sociopathic evils. Nonetheless, you need to get around this thing. This is the year that reading became r ...more
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The kicker to this powerful and disturbing treatise on the fascist creeps trashing the planet comes when the author’s bio reveals he was an advisor to the sclerotic centrist hacks Diane Feinstein, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris. What a fucking rug pull ...more
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