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Jay Slayton-Joslin

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Jay Slayton-Joslin is the author of Sequelland: A Story of Dreams and Screams (Clash Books, 2020) and Kicking Prose (KUBOA, 2014). Jay graduated with a BA in American Literature with Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Surrey. He lives in Leeds, England.

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Average rating: 4.27 · 113 ratings · 35 reviews · 9 distinct works
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Pretty incredible -- perhaps my new favourite SGJ, which is really saying something.

Interview with the Vampire meets a Western. Told across centuries. It's smart, well-written with his infectious style and extremely fun.

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Interesting to read about a monumental British event that I've never heard about. It's written well and clearly well-researched. Just not that fascinating to me other than how it captures the time of live TV and formation of the SAS.

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Interesting to read about a monumental British event that I've never heard about. It's written well and clearly well-researched. Just not that fascinating to me other than how it captures the time of live TV and formation of the SAS.

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Maybe listening to this as an audiobook wasn't great because it didn't do too much for me. I think it probably could have just been the quick checkpoint lists at the end. ...more
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Maybe listening to this as an audiobook wasn't great because it didn't do too much for me. I think it probably could have just been the quick checkpoint lists at the end. ...more
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I really enjoyed this and can see why it gets a lot of the attention it does. One major issue is I feel like it doesn't really hit it's stride till after the first 1/3rd. The love story and passion is worth following, the down and out behaviour of th ...more
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