Hang Him When He Is Not There


“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

Hang Him When He Is Not There

by 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.

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