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Driving Jaimie

Ben Morris

£5.99

Cosmic … Fay Weldon
Compelling Elegaic Dreamy … hypnotic Deliciously evocative
Echoes of Highsmith, shades of Mulholland Drive Reader reviews

Towards the end of 2013 I got fed up with collecting rejection letters and self-published my novel Driving Jaimie on Kindle. It had found a few fans on Authonomy when I tried out some chapters there. It found a few more through Kindle, where one or two 5-star reviews trickled in along with a Thriller of the Month recommendation from e-thriller.com, alas no longer with us.

Digital eBook publishing is a long way from realising its promise, misunderstood by publishers and hijacked by Amazon, Google, and friends. But the journey from Gutenberg to (say) the Kelmscott Press took almost half a millennium. Digital publishing has a way to go. Of course I would trade all its unlimited freedom for copies in bookshops. But my novel is still there. And you can still read it.

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  • Digital eBook (ePub/Mobi) 160 pages

  • ISBN: 978-0-9927834-0-2 (eBook formats)

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Driving Jaimie cover image

Driving Jaimie

Ben Morris

£5.99

Cosmic … Fay Weldon
Compelling Elegaic Dreamy … hypnotic Deliciously evocative
Echoes of Highsmith, shades of Mulholland Drive Reader reviews

  • First published:

  • Digital eBook (ePub/Mobi) 160 pages

  • ISBN: 978-0-9927834-0-2 (Mobi) 978-0-9927834-1-9 (ePub))

It’s 2005, a forgettable year.

Jaimie is a painter whose moment has passed. He's living on a reputation made decades ago. And he's feeling his age.

Francis has the gift of youth. He's drifting through life with no clear purpose. Footloose and bored, he accepts an offer from a London gallery friend to drive Jaimie to Turin, where his new exhibition will open.

Against the winter backdrop of the road, the mountains, and the city they fail to make much sense of each other. But something has sparked between them.

In Turin we meet Max, the gallery owner, and his hangers-on. Jaimie throws himself into the daily details of preparing his exhibition, but something is wrong. He feels his life unravelling. Perhaps it's Francis.

The private-view after-party is wild. At night in the fog in the hills above the city, events begin to spin violently out of control.

Driving Jaimie is a stylish and hypnotic first novel.

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