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Foxy-T on the book club quilt

Ginny sent news that the front cover of the first edition of my novel Foxy-T (Faber and Faber, 2003) is to be included in her book club quilt. Thank you Ginny, this made my month. I will find out more about this anon but I think that the idea of a ‘book club quilt’ is fairly self-explanatory. It is also completely brilliant; such a great idea.

Ginny’s book club has been going for a while now and they’ve read a lot of books, so I’m really honoured that Foxy-T is included. It’s also a particularly nice cover, which was designed by Jonathan Gray of gray318 – who at the time was being justly celebrated for the cover he did for Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated.

Ginny sent this jpeg of the patch, which I love. It is currently unhemmed. I will ask Ginny to send another few images as the book club quilt nears completion (though I have no idea how many weeks, months or years away that might be).

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[...] 2010 at 2:01 pm Having posted about my novel Foxy-T (Faber and Faber, 2003) being included on the Book Club Quilt recently, I just found this excellent photo by my old friend Daniel Wootton of the former Telecall [...]

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'This is, in fact, the best book that has ever been written about Brick Lane [...] an amazing tour de force.' Roy Moxham, The Browser

'...this affectionate tale may tell you more about love, longing and ambition in the inner city than a dozen official reports. Indeed, some readers would argue that it captures the flavour of Asian lives in London E1 with more inside-track relish than another novel of 2003: Monica Ali's Brick Lane.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'The book I like best is Tony White’s Foxy-T. Ventriloquism among the Cannon Street xeroxing machines, innit?' Sukhdev Sandhu, 3:am Magazine

'"What's your favourite British novel from the past ten years?" The other day I was with a group of friends, and someone posed this question. A few fairly obvious titles were suggested, which gave me time to think. And when it came my turn to speak, I said, "Foxy T by Tony White".' Toby Litt, Guardian

'...made me grin with surprised admiration. Rejecting familiar influences of the past 20 years, White joins a handful of contemporary writers who are proving that the novel has never been more alive. He is a serious, engaging voice of the modern city.' Michael Moorcock, Guardian

'One of this year's key novels [...] an ingenious, beautifully crafted, thrillingly contemporary love story set in the Bangladeshi east end and narrated in that area's distinctive patois [...] A complex, clever book whose future status as a GCSE set text must be assured.' Time Out
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'Weirdly Brilliant Steampunk Thing. Anyone who loves alternative versions of London a la Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore should get their hands on Albertopolis Disparu, a short story available for free at the Science Museum. It's a densely-laden tale of secret machines, converted turrets and tunnels and Edwardian techno-espionage, played out over the rooftops and catacombs of Exhibition Road. Any eight-page story that references Michael Moorcock and ends with a fleet of Zeppelins attacking Imperial College with plasma weapons is a winner with us. The campaign starts here to persuade the author, Tony White, to turn this into a full-length novel.' Londonist

'White uses primary texts to create his secondary ones and overtly cites five sources, plus the James Colvin ‘Terminal Session’ triple bluff that cavorts back to the great Michael Moorcock who started it in the first place and then back again (which adds up to three) plus the ‘listening post’ pothook of the South Kensington Science Museum plus the American Technical Society of 1911 publication. It might be a story but more likely it merely reads like one to the casual peruse. [...] White is a killer. He’s the deal.' Richard Marshall, 3am Magazine

'Albertopolis Disparu startet mit einer Referenz an Michael Moorcock und endet mit einer Flotte Zeppeline, die mit Plasmawaffen angreifen, was will man mehr?' Clockworker
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'[...] the marginal but intriguing terrain of avant-pulp. It's here that writers such as Tony White (CharlieUncleNorfolkTango) [sic.], Stewart Home (Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton) and Peter Sotos (Index) channel the energy and drive of pornography, the skinhead paperbacks of Richard Allen and the cartoon anarchism of Leo Baxendale's Beano comics to escape the stylistic and rhetorical corsets of the metropolitan novel.' Sukhdev Sandhu, Telegraph

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'Still trying to struggle through Irvine Welsh's Filth? Give yourself a break, toss it and pick up this little number. The Rozzers, for it is they, are busy beating the living shite out of crims, driving around in a riot van, and being abducted by aliens. You are guaranteed to laugh or at least darkly smirk your face off as they muse philosophically on life the universe and what blokes and birds do.' The Source

'Charlieunclenorfolktango is contrived to ignite a reaction. Like an explosive concoction, this book threatens to unhinge our perception of normality and turn reality on its head. A political exercise in defamiliarisation. A highly satirical effort, White's book throws us in at the deep end, making us work at extracting the meaning, shaking off complacency and taking a fresh look at ourselves.' The Buzz

'This is the most remarkable novel of alien abduction I've ever read. The entire book is written in a phonetic, verbal style, making it read as utterly brutal but darkly hilarious at the same time, and the strange thoughts that occur to the intellectually stunted Lockie make him a tragic figure, surrounded by sinister undercurrents. Every sentence is punctuated by filth, in that casual way that only the truly foul-mouthed can pull off successfully [...] you can't deny that this book is an original.' Front
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