Sideways Movers

by Escobar Walker, Bojan Rajic (Illustrator), Mauricio Gomez (Illustrator)

★★★ The hard-hitting sequel to the multi-award nominated novel BOWLING BALL ★★★ Starting with frenzied masturbation, a back door entrance to a Glasgow nightclub and a racially-aggravated altercation in a east London strip joint, Escobar Walker's second novel SIDEWAYS MOVERS resumes in the immediate aftermath of the author's multi-award nominated debut BOWLING BALL. WITH HIS FLATMATE dead and his nemesis Chaz Nisbet languishing in prison on a murder charge, life is gradually starting to look back up for anti-hero Dempsy when a free summer holiday in Spain is quickly followed by a potentially lucrative compensation pay-out falling into (or rather out of) his lap whilst eating in a well-known fast food chain. Unfortunately the arrival of precocious bawbag Barry Veitch at his workplace just as quickly drags the serial-masturbator back down into the harsh realities of modern life, with his shell-suited teenage colleague acting as a stark reminder not only of Dempsy’s bleak future prospects selling double-glazed windows on one of Glasgow’s poorest council estates, but also of the even more depressing monkey that remains on his still being a virgin in his twenties. Set against the backdrop of a pubic lice infestation and the mundane lives of the stories five main characters, SIDEWAYS MOVERS portrays a grim pastiche of under-achievement in everyday life in central Scotland (no money, no girlfriend and very little hope of getting either). The story edges closer towards an inevitable car-crash conclusion as our main protagonist takes matters into his own hands to resolve his sexual and financial frustrations, first with an unsuccessful late-night visit to a red light district and then with a more profitable foray into an upmarket housing estate in Milngavie to boost his ailing sales figures. Or at least it is looking that way until an invitation to a Halloween party results in something altogether more sordid and sinister . . . At over 80,000 words, SIDEWAYS MOVERS is a full-length novel. TALES OF THE GREAT PIMP MCDADDY, the third and final instalment in Escobar Walker's 'Three Realistic Holes' trilogy, will be published in 2015.

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 2, 2014

About the author

Escobar Walker is the author of contemporary Scottish fiction.

His first novel BOWLING BALL was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize and Brit Writers Awards 2011, and also long-listed for the US Amazon Breakthrough Author Awards 2012 prior to being published by the UK imprint of Twisted Literature.

His second novel SIDEWAYS MOVERS is due out in 2014.