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CHEERIO Publishing
08 April 2024
A powerful literary novella from award-winning author Tade Thompson, about obsession, the creation of art and the many ways in which the urge to make can also turn into an urge to destroy.

In this shocking, and at times darkly comic, novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on Francis Bacon becomes obsessed with the artist, his life, and the characters who surrounded him. As he becomes consumed with the need to understand Bacon, and to create his own art, his grip on reality becomes increasingly tenuous, and he is haunted by disturbing figures. This short, bold piece of fiction explores how the passion needed to create art can also destroy the artist.

Tade Thompson is a writer best known for his Arthur C Clarke Award and Nommo Award-winning novel Rosewater, and the Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne.

'A darkly weird thunderbolt of a novella... by the end you can practically taste the tang of scorched earth in the air.'

Daily Mail

'An exquisite, razor-sharp exploration on the nature of all-consuming art. Tade Thompson is a wonder.'

Irenosen Okojie
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Imprint:   CHEERIO Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781739440527
ISBN 10:   1739440528
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tade Thompson is a Yoruba writer best known for his Arthur C. Clarke Award and Nommo Award winning novel ROSEWATER and the Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella THE MURDERS OF MOLLY SOUTHBOURNE. His novels, novellas and short stories have been finalists for the Locus Awards, the Hugo Award, The Philip K. Dick Award, the British Science Fiction Award, The John W. Campbell Award, The Theodore Sturgeon Award among others. He has multiple works under development for screen adaptation. He lives and works in the United Kingdom.

Reviews for Jackdaw

'A wild, darkly comic nightmare set on the borderlines of creativity, imagination and madness.' Guardian; 'Thompson's prose, contaminated by Bacon's unflinching view of the human animal, makes for vital, unsettling reading' - Will Maclean, author of The Apparition Phase


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