Overview

The perfect read to surpass the wildest dreams (and nightmares) of the most dedicated cosplay fanatic. Joy is a gifted archer, a retired Olympian and former stuntwoman on a cult Japanese tokusatsu show. Raised by a feckless grifter, her home is Bodkins Point, a tiny country town which annually hosts an ultra-violent medieval festival called ""Agincourt."" There, the town and the townsfolk's reality is in a constant state of tug-of-war with their elaborate, 150 years running, parallel fiction. In the aftermath of a terrible fire, Joy's past and the town's dark history are set on a collision course as she takes the furious road to revenge. Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons - Nock Loose is like nothing else in OzLit.

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'Marlborough is that rarest thing: a dangerous Australian writer. Read them before it's too late.' Michael Winkler 'Mad, rad and merciless: Australia's own energy-drink-era Vonnegut.' Sam George-Allen 'Nock Loose runs a rake over decades of D-Grade Australian culture and draws a narrative between all that was caught between the tines. Feeling like the cinematic amalgam of a nineties daytime talk show, an op shop joke book, and a hijacked reddit thread, only Marlborough could (or would) write this book.' Max Easton 'Patrick Marlborough's Nock Loose is a wryly post-modern and cynically satirical novel that hits the ground running and never lets up ... audacious, macabre and deeply felt.' Anica Boulanger-Mashberg, Books+Publishing Fogarty Literary Award (shortlisted, 2023)

Author Information

Patrick Marlborough is an underemployed writer/comedian/musician/drongo living with their parents in Walyalup, Western Australia. They have been published in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Slate, Gawker, Meanjin, Crikey, Kotaku, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Going Down Swinging and various other forgotten blogs, magazines, and anthologies. The manuscript for their first novel, A Horse Held at Gunpoint, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021 and is still looking for a publisher. They are the founder and editor of The Yeah Nah Review, as well as Wharf Rat Press. They co-author all of their work with their bad dog, Buckley, who is solely responsible for any problematic elements therein.

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