More Lies

<p><em>More Lies</em> is a highly referential comedy thriller about a writer being held hostage in their own apartment and forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale holding a pearl-handled gun and her brother a small-time thug with big-time ambitions. This wild tale about assassination lost gold betrayal passion and identity theft engages the reader in the many layers of the author's witty but deceptive journey. Through a series of lies backflips and alternative versions of the tale the author moves from being a trapped hack forced to prostitute themselves to dazzling the world with the acrobatics of their imagination to the heart of the matter: storytelling is all that is keeping them alive. </p><p><br></p><p>A phantasmagoric avant-garde story set in a lost New York Richard James Allen's <em>More Lies</em> both entertains and provokes as it reveals a world where 'truth is never enough/Or it's unlikeable.' A fluid narrative forward motion and a sense of the fundamental mystery of it all have never been so closely intertwined. </p><p>- Nicholas Birns New York University</p>