Lobe

by Tom Mallin

274 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1977

About the author

Tom Mallin was born in the Black Country in 1927 and studied on scholarship at the Birmingham School of Art in 1943-1945. Upon returning from national service, Mallin studied at the Anglo-French Arts Centre in St. John’s Wood, and became interested in the ‘New Realist’ school of painting, popular in Paris at the time. He worked as a picture restorer for many years, and moved to stables in Suffolk, converted into an artist’s studio, in 1955 to raise his two children, meanwhile producing a significant body of artistic works, from lifesize sculptures to cartoons and paintings. Mallin began writing around this time, and completed his ambitious first novel, Erowina, in 1962 (published a decade later as his third). Mallin’s work was taken on by Allison & Busby in the early 1970s, and before his death to cancer in 1977, he published five novels: Dodecahedron, Knut, Erowina, Lobe and Bedrok, leaving behind many unpublished works. His play Curtains was also published around this time. Mallin’s works are striking and stifling acts of creative expression, and demonstrate a dark and fertile imagination often exploring the familiar bedfellows of sex, violence, and religion.

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Reviews

[MJ Nicholls · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read up to p180. Underwhelming.