Times Two

by Bill Bailey


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Softcover
£16.65
Softcover
£16.65

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 16/01/2004

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 564
ISBN : 9781414021492

About the Book

This is a dramatic and chilling tale told in the time zones of the present and future.  The almost animate physical structure of the State is revealed as it disintegrates around the lives of characters including a television evangelist looking for money and finding redemption, despite the stench of his own corruption.  A crazed media baron is embedded in his castle in the Channel Islands, at last realising his sexual and financial fantasies.  An American ex-private detective helps lead a hopeless band of scattered comrades in a modern and most definitely post-modern Britain.  The leader of the Labour Party resigns on the eve of her election in what seems to be an act of idiotic self-destruction.  The action swirls into the funnel of a whirlpool as an unimaginable catastrophe threatens the existence of humanity.  The survivors fight desperately to re-weave the social fabric, opposed by forces who struggle to restore the values of the thief and thug.  Fast-moving.  Emotionally powerful.


About the Author

Born in a small rural town in North Carolina, Bill Bailey began his itinerant life after graduating from university with a degree in philosophy.  Subsequently ejected by the US Army, he found work as a prison guard in Canada before briefly prospecting for gold in British Columbia.  Having meanwhile accidentally married a Texan heiress, he moved to Houston, Texas where he managed a ranch, scrambled motorbikes, rallied sports cars, worked as a bouncer, taught English and French, cut wheat and organised the first white collar union in the US meat-packing industry.  Backing quickly away from Texas after stumbling into the acting profession he moved to London.  Within a year of his arrival he became the first full-frontal male nude on the British stage.  In the course of his acting career he has worked extensively in film - in Hollywood and Europe - television and London’s West End.  He now lives with a foul-mouthed parrot called Dizzy.