Nicholas John Turner
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New Year’s Eve, 1989. At a residential care home in suburban Australia, fireworks explode in the distance while an elderly man dies in troubling circumstances. Decades later, a proof-reader, disfigured by a childhood accident, prepares to meet a celebrated and reclusive novelist. Between these two figures a subtle and intricate web is woven, implicating the members of a mystical cult, the victim of a beheading, an impostor artist, and the enigmatic presence known only as Agent Vell.
NICHOLAS JOHN TURNER is based in Brisbane, Australia. This is his literary debut in North America.
Reviews
“Turner upends everything. His language is like a taut but complex tool of excavation that just keeps burrowing into deeper terrain. This guy means business.”
—SERGIO DE LA PAVA, Author of A Naked Singularity and Lost Empress
“One of the boldest Australian literary débuts of recent years.”
—Shannon Burns, THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN, 1/19/2018
“Hang Him When He Is Not There is a gripping read and an incredible debut novel. I’m not sure who to compare Turner to, as he seems to have found an inventive style and voice all his own. I felt some of the lingering foreboding that I experience with Bolaño or Krasznahorkai’s Satantango, along with the reconciling piecemeal confusion of Dara’s The Lost Scrapbook.”
—Dylan Lackey, THE COLLIDESCOPE, 8/21/2022