Algorithm Party

by Roy Porter

Algorithm Party  is a debut publication in which an utterly original, fully-formed literary voice announces itself, somehow full of life, on the page. Liverpool's spoken-word performer Roy's deft, articulate and startlingly observed stories veer from the comic to the calamitous in a breath, cutting to the quick of the broad swathe of people and personalities that comprise his native city, from struggling parents to small-time criminals, pent-up white-collar workers to drinkers long lost to the ale. Roy's eye is as keen as it is generous, presenting, in the great tradition of English realism, the real lives of people up against it in all sorts of ways, muddling through, trying to make the best of it.

Paperback

Published December 1, 2020

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

Reviews

[Arlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been dead homesick lately so this collection of scouse short stories was a exactly what I needed. Really vibrant, razor sharp snapshots of cosmic scallies, gangsters, kids not fitting in, blokes just doing their best to get by. Highly recommend this if you like Chris McQueer and Irvine Welsh.

[SY · Rating 3 out of 5]

The language barrier is also real...

[Liam Bratley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful stuff, made me laugh on a page by page basis, shame it wasn't longer.

As my friend said, Roy mines his own historical inventory of experience and uses the rough gold he finds to make jewels.

Absolutely not written by Roy Porter either.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant short stories centered around snapshots of life in Liverpool

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love scousers <3