“An assured and gripping debut.” — Ian MacMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3
“His subtle and clever novel weaves together five different narrative strands...plotted so artfully.” — The Big Issue
“Like a four-part harmony, Hogg balances these voices, strengthening the book's message of staying true to one's roots... His swift change in style really shines.” — The Sunday Herald
“Well researched and exciting...The journal by the Fijian is convincing and Nicholas Hogg shows that he is a fine storyteller with a good grasp of 19th century life.” — Waterstone's
Nicholas Hogg's debut novel, Show Me the Sky is available from amazon.co.uk, play.com, Borders, Waterstone's, Blackwell, WHSmith and other retailers in the UK, and amazon.com and other retailers in the US.
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On The Sun Warped Highway, follows US border agent Tate Morgan from California to Mexico, and will be published in the next edition of the literary sensation, Litro. — “For the last three years he rode the fence at Tijuana, patrolling the beach on an ATV. Black goggles and flak jackets. Agents in teams of four like mechanised horsemen of the apocalypse churning up sand or watching with binoculars the bikinied senoritas across the Mexican border. Countries divided by a mesh fence where families came for Sunday picnics and husbands talked with wives and kids through chain link.”
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Sammy, a new short story exploring the friendship of two ten year-old boys from broken homes, features alongside work from writers such as Joanne Harris and Henry Shukman in the next edition of Riptide. — “Sammy pulled out a flame on the end of a stick and watched it closely, his dark eyes huge in the flickering glow. I could see the scald marks around his mouth where his dad had once poured in boiling water. Just when I thought he might cry he looked at me and said, “Be a better laugh if you runaway, too.”
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Gimme Danger, a short story by Nicholas Hogg, features in Punk Fiction, an anthology of writing inspired by Punk. Punk Fiction is available from amazon.co.uk and other book sellers in the UK.
Teenage Cancer Trust will receive £1 from every copy sold.
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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes, a short story blending Vietnamese fable and modern day California, has won an ‘Editor's Choice Award’ in the 2009 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.
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UPCOMING EVENTS :
Sunday July 19th at 9pm: In the Lattitude ‘Literary Arena’ Nicholas Hogg, along with a suitably mohicaned actor, performs Gimme Danger, his short story from the acclaimed Punk Fiction anthology (see above).
Wednesday 29th July at 7pm: Nicholas Hogg reads in the ‘Days of Roses’ night at Filthy McNastys Whiskey Cafe, 68 Amwell St, London EC1.
Tuesday 13th October at 8pm: Nicholas Hogg features in the Ilkley Literature festival as part of Cadaverine Magazine's young writer's event.