Fiction

‘Like William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Scar Culture is a book not to read, but to reread’ Sunday Herald
‘Compelling… A novel of ideas that is also humanly compelling’ Times Literary Supplement

‘The Gradual Gathering of Lust is a wonderful collection. It contains writing that often threatens to overwhelm the reader with explorative potential. Despite the facility with and evident love of language, the impression is given that words aren’t all; they’re merely the scrim on a concealed truth, enormous and ineffable and unutterable.’ Guardian

“Within a headlong story of adventure and suspense, a story masterfully structured around amazingly nuanced characters, My Gun Was As Tall As Me bears witness to the moral complexities attending the soul-shredding plights of internally displaced people and those trying to help them. For anyone who would make a difference in the world, this novel should be required reading.”
Jim Dodge,

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Summer 2015
The Alpine Casanovas is a stunning, sophisticated tour de force of sex, drugs, violence and death, exploring the lives of those caught between East and West.

The Amerasian Beat and the Eurasian Quyn share the same heritage – both are half Vietnamese. Beat is a star of Asian action movies who lives in the US, relying on sex, drugs and acclaim to survive. Whilst filming in Vietnam he fakes his own death and then watches the media circus from the refuge of a chalet high in the mountains.

Quyn is the product of an adulterous affair between his father, a bootlegger, and a Vietnamese refugee. Brought up in the family barn, when Quyn’s father immolates, Quyn is left itinerant. He drifts through corrosive casual jobs before returning to the mountain, building a treehouse close to his birthplace.

Toni Davidson follows his acclaimed novels Scar Culture and My Gun Was As Tall As Me with his most accomplished and mature work to date; a bold, challenging and timely exploration of the loss of heritage, identity and community. As Davidson weaves a beguiling and complex web, both men are driven to near madness by the circumstances of their births, culminating in an explosive, shocking climax.