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Carl Shuker

Biography

Carl Shuker

Carl Shuker was born in New Zealand in 1974, and lived many years in Tokyo before settling in London, where he currently lives with his wife and daughter. His first novel, THE METHOD ACTORS,  was shortlisted for the Prize in Modern Letters, the richest prize in the world for an emerging writer. His second novel, THE LAZY BOYS, is currently being developed into a major motion feature by director Brendan Donovan and producer Michael Wrenn.

Carl Shuker

Books by Carl Shuker

The Royal Free
by Carl Shuker - Fiction, Humor

James Ballard is a recently widowed father to a baby daughter. And he is a copy editor tasked with saving the Royal London Journal of Medicine from the mistakes no one else notices --- misplaced apostrophes, Freudian misspellings, the wrong influenza strain. This job is utterly boring but --- he tells himself --- totally crucial. The Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body and a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world. In London, outside the office, the prognosis for the body politic is grim: there are riots in the streets. While attempting to balance a six-month-old baby, his grief, and his work with a cast of mad and lovably eccentric medical editors, he finds himself the target of a violent gang of North London teenagers.