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About Me

I write fiction. Novels, short stories, scripts. Also journalism --Novels Counterparts (Barrington Books, 1993), Saxophone Dreams (Penguin, 1996), The Matter of the Heart (Abacus, 1997), The Director's Cut (Abacus, 2000), Antwerp (Serpent's Tail, 2004) --Short stories Mortality (Serpent's Tail, 2006) --Novella The Enigma of Departure (PS Publishing, forthcoming). Find out more here .I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Breaking into abandoned buildings.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who feels the way I do about golf.

Music:

Performance, Sparks, Cipher, Arve Henriksen, Joy Division, The Fall, Githead, Keith Jarrett, Deathprod, Roger Eno, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Theo Travis, Jah Wobble, Steven Severin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire, Scanner.

Movies:

Nicolas Roeg, Peter Greenaway, Harry KÃ¼mel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, BÃ©la Tarr, David Lynch. Don't Look Now, Daughters of Darkness, Thundercrack!, Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Last Year at Marienbad, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Inland Empire.

Books:

Derek Marlowe, Steve Erickson, Shelley Jackson, M John Harrison, Joel Lane, Cris Mazza, Conrad Williams, Rhonda Carrier, Christopher Kenworthy, Michael Marshall Smith, Anna Kavan, Rupert Thomson.

My Blog

Necklines Through the Ages

Nicholas RoyleA room within a room. Safe, contained, secure. Sitting inside this 18th century Henrietta Street parlour exquisitely restored and painstakingly reconstructed in the British Galleries of ...
Posted by Nicholas Royle on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:24:00 PST

The Pied Piper of Hammersmith

If you've ever sat alone at night in one of those houses or flats that back on to the overground sections of the Hammersmith & City line, then you will know as Michael did that the trains which go...
Posted by Nicholas Royle on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:17:00 PST