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Ian Shadwell

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Ian McEwen, Martin Amis, PG Wodehouse and Joseph Heller

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July 2014


Ian Houston Shadwell is a writer who enjoys playing flamenco guitar, cycling and sailing. He shaves irregularly, has played scrabble with Kylie Minogue and once asked Ewan McGregor if he could sing. He loves satire, history, surrealism and white wine - often all at once.

His first novel Slush Pile was released in June 2014 and has been hailed as an hilarious take on the publishing industry and the dilemmas of the writer’s life.

Average rating: 3.69 · 35 ratings · 11 reviews · 2 distinct works
Slush Pile

3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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I've had a great run of reviews for my first novel, here's a list of some of the things critics have said,

"A rollicking black comedy..." The Australian

"Hilarious..." Books+Publishing

"a finely-tuned comic touch" the Sun Herald

"a romp through the life of a literary desperado" Newtown Review of Books
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Herman Melville
“Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-labourers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally, as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humour or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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