“An assured and gripping debut.” — Ian MacMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3
“Show Me the Sky is an absorbing exploration of identity, escaping the past — and the urge to return home.” — Product Magazine
“His subtle and clever novel weaves together five different narrative strands... plotted so artfully.” — The Big Issue
“A superb novel…an ambitious and accomplished work and a harbinger of further riches to come” — The Compulsive Reader. ...read more
“The voices are convincing, the tension relentless, the book's narratives alternating with perfect timing.” — Barrie Sherwood, author of Escape from Amsterdam
“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
“Show Me the Sky is a serious tour de force.” — Vanessa Gebbie, author of Words from a Glass Bubble. ...read more
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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.
Read the opening pages using Amazon's Look Inside feature.
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Nicholas Hogg is interviewed in the Autumn 2008 edition of Product Magazine — available from most book sellers and magazine retailers in the UK.
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Mao, a poem by Nicholas Hogg, filmed by North Isle Productions, has been selected from over 1000 entries for inclusion in the 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. Judging of the competition takes place in Berlin on October 12th 2008.
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Read a sample from Show Me the Sky in the July 2008 edition of Pulp Net. Or to get a free copy of the book, write a review for author Laura Hird's website.
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Nicholas Hogg describes seven days reading, dancing, sleeping in cow fields, and not writing in Untitled Books' My Week column.
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Nicholas Hogg writes in Bookslut about his ‘close encounter’ and aborted motorcycle ride across the Australian Outback which inspired the Terra Incognita strand of Show Me the Sky.
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Listen to the BBC Radio 4 broadcast of Naked, a short story by Nicholas Hogg.