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The Kindly OnesCliff JamesAt last, it's out! The new novel by Cliff James, The Kindly Ones, is now available to buy from the publisher, Lethe Press (follow the link below), and Amazon. It should soon be available from all bookstores including your local bookshop. ISBN 9781590216903

Here's what they're saying about it...

"... the narrative raises pressing philosophical questions about ethics and altruism while conjuring fascinating characters and an eerie setting." - ​Publishers Weekly

"[A] post-apocalyptic, queer-spiced thrill" - Patrick Gale

"Cliff James is a rising star of contemporary British literature celebrated for his exquisitely observed characters & beautifully weaved, nuanced story-telling.
The Kindly Ones is a story for an extinction rebellion era set at the edge of extinction. It's about homelessness, displacement, shelter & survival. It's about growing up where death looms daily. It's about human compassion & religious ridiculousness. It's about acquired family & family bound by blood & faith. It's about intimacy, tenderness & humour and it's about disorientation, discomfort & despair. It's about fragility & resilience. It's about slavery & injustice & violence. And within the chaos & destruction blooms love." (Andy Taylor, Voices of Awareness)

To order a copy, follow this link to the Lethe Press website: https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store...The Kindly Ones

"‘Natural justice is to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another,’ Rhea read aloud. It was such a pithy formulation that she wondered whether it could really be that simple, if that were all there was to it. She had harmed a man once, sharply, bloodily, in the back without seeing his face, and she had done it to prevent him from harming Francesca. When she thought about it now, that terrible night in the last house, she knew she had only done what was necessary. And she would not hesitate to do it again to prevent anyone from harming her girls or the boy, her true kin. It had not been revenge, not an eye for an eye, but she still felt that it had tainted her, spoiled her forever. She hated the man for that: not just for what he would have done to Francesca but for what he had driven her to do, in effect for what he had done to her. She read the consoling sentence again. To prevent one from harming another, that is justice. She sighed and put the book down. That would have to do for an answer today..."

It's out! The Kindly OnesThe Kindly Ones is now available from the Lethe Press website, from Amazon, and very soon to order from all good bokshops (ISBN 9781590216903).
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Now that his new, dystopian novel The Kindly Ones is available to buy, Cliff James reads an extract from Chapter Two of the novel - video on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/UnNZHEz3uOE

The Kindly Ones
Cliff James