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A Scruffian Survival Guide (album & ebook)

by Hal Duncan

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Stolen from homes & streets down the centuries, Scruffians are waifs, urchins, foundlings, hellions. Fixed as ageless & indestructible by the Stamp, for use as child labour, but with spirits as resilient as their flesh, these underdogs are more likely to bite back than submit. In the rhymes and fabbles by which they 'membrance their secret history, they're always already rallying and resisting, a fierce sodality of the abject determined never to let marginalisation mean victimisation.

Like fugitives from the musical Oliver! by way of Clive Barker, like some queer punk bastard brat born of Neil Gaiman and William Burroughs, the anarchic Scruffians should appeal to readers of dark fantasy with a wicked sense of black humour and a fierce passion for social justice. Wielding whimsy in the service of satire, with a wink to Peter Pan, a nod to The Borribles, and a salute to Sweeney Todd, this is punk fiction for yer inner feral child.

"Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection that digs uncompromisingly into the ribs of the establishment. This latest volume, populated as always with wonderful characters old and new, deepens that exploration and brings it bang up to date. I loved every word of it." -- Neil Williamson

*Releasing August 2017, the chapbook will be available for pre-order here from July in limited hardback, paperback and ebook, with this album included as part of each package.

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released July 1, 2017

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Hal Duncan Glasgow, UK

Hal Duncan is the author of VELLUM and INK, more recently TESTAMENT, and numerous short stories, poems, essays, even a few musicals. Homophobic hatemail once dubbed him "THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!!" (sic), and you can find him online at www.halduncan.com or at his Patreon for readings, revelling in that role. ... more

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