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Fire Horses (Paperback)

by Mark Liam Piggott (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Legend Press Ltd (31 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906558019
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906558017
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 814,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Reading Fire Horses is like riding pillion on a motorbike driven by a poet. --Jonathan Trigell

Passionate, powerful, poetic a fine debut from an original talent. --John King

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Joe Noone is a degenerate and enthusiastic explorer of the gutter. Fire Horses views England over the last 25 years, from small town to the grimy metropolitan underbelly, through the eyes and lens of one deeply troubled individual and his complex relationships with his childhood friend and the women in his life. Laced with dark humour, poetic beauty and angry political asides, Fire Horses is an unflinching lesson in modern history. An epic love story about ordinary people, the novel is an examination of the pain-inducing traps we can set for ourselves in life and how and whether we can escape them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shiny Stuff From Rubbish, 15 Jun 2008
"You're fire horses, twice over. Conceived and born under the sign. You're the end of the world, you two."

Fire Horses is a contemporary novel written in a poetic literary voice dealing with the hard grit of British life as experienced through Joe Noone. It's about consequences and how Joe has to travel a world that doesn't always make sense whilst his past and future rage against him.

"All the sublime magic of youth had been knocked out of me; I was still wandering, but all the wonder had gone."

Joe doesn't walk a track that commercial demographics would predict walking into Burtons and spending money. He walks off the beaten track. Sometimes invisible, sometimes walking into traps that destroy those around him. He embraces the drinking culture and is wired chemically for sex, yet is a hopeless romantic.

"Hours were lost, the sky darkened, alcohol began to coat my brain and eat away at all the layers of sophistication, culture and self-consciousness."

Blur's, Modern Life is Rubbish, sums up this book well. Yet despite this, or because of this, there is hope and redemption threaded throughout the book. Mark Piggott shows us the rubbish, but embraces it and produces art and a life for Joe that has beauty once Mark has shown you how to look.

Mark Piggott obviously loves his characters. At one point Jo muses, "Only be a passenger if the driver has something to live for," and it could be said the same for Jo as a character in Mark's novel, "Only be the protagonist if Mark gives me something to live for." I can almost see Mark pitching the job to fictional Jo, "It will be bad, real bad. But you'll get to have lots of sex and I'll dangle the carrot of love before you. The money will be shit though."

As in life, where humour is born out of misery and gives reason, Mark's book is full of fun one liners. At one point Jo says, "It came as a relief when I reached my 34th birthday because then I knew for sure I wasn't Jesus."

As a debut novel it shines, both in the quality of the writing and the insights into mankind and modern history.

Now that's not bad.

Shiny stuff from rubbish - go buy it and see for yourself.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fire Horses, 27 Mar 2009
By Lisa Mckenzie (Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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I discovered Fire Horses through a friend, who had fallen in love with this book, and so I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about. And I wasn't let down. The writing is compelling and I was torn between sympathy and dislike for the main character. The novel is scattered with moments of beauty, humour and action that are frankly brilliant and this is probably the best book I have read so far this year and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good read.
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