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Allen Miles

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Born

in Hull, East Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.sittingontheswings.com

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Genre

Contemporary, Fiction

Influences

Charles Bukowski John Fante Irvine Welsh Cormac McCarthy Albert Camus ...more

Member Since

August 2012

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Allen Miles is a six-foot three anaemic stick insect with a bit of a cold. He is 32 years old and lives in Hull with his wife Sally and his daughter Gabriella. He rarely sleeps, drinks too much and is useless with money. His first major work, 18 Days, reached No7 in the Amazon Urban Fiction chart and is now included in his latest collection of short stories, This Is How You Disappear, out now through Abrachadabra Books. His work has been compared to that of Hubert Selby Jr and Charles Bukowski, and one reviewer termed his writing as "a masterpiece of a hangover from the post-Trainspotting generation." ...more

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Self-Disgust Is Self-Obsession Honey

I was never cut out for a career. I'm too socially awkward and I never found anything that stirred my passions enough to attempt to forge a livelihood from it. I have a job, but I refuse to be one of the arse-kissing yes-spitters in my workplace so I'll never get on the ladder. I have found people who I get on with at work and they have similar principals/flaws (same thing, these days), which is w Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 18, 2014 15:27 • Tags: allen-miles, scott-walker, this-is-how-you-disappear

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Average rating: 4.19 · 102 ratings · 31 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Twelve Mad Men by Ryan Bracha (Goodreads Author), Paul D. Brazill (Contributor), Gerard Brennan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2014	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
	Gloves Off Volume 1 by Craig Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gareth Spark, Richard Godwin (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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
	The Thirteen Lives of Frank Peppercorn by Ryan Bracha (Goodreads Author), Dominic Adler (Goodreads Author), Jason Beech (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 31 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
	This Is How You Disappear 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	12 Mad Men by Ryan Bracha (Goodreads Author), Paul D. Brazill, Gerard Brennan (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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