GUY MANKOWSKI

With 'An Honest Deceit' having recently been re-released as an Audiobook (narrated by Ian Rankin's excellent narrator Chris Reilly) it was truly great to see that the book has just reached number one in quite a few of Amazon's charts- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honest-Deceit-gripping-thriller-shocking-ebook/dp/B01LXYS1OR/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= You can buy it as a novel, for the Kindle, or (if you're more of a listener) as an Audiobook on the link above. Thanks to all those who've bought it and made it my most reviewed book so far. 

I thought a blog post making my PhD readily available online might be helpful. This was a Creative Writing PhD on self-design in the post-punk movement. The novel component of the PhD, entitled 'How I Left The National Grid', is available as  a free preview on Google Books, here-   https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/How_I_Left_The_National_Grid.html?id=yABKBgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y   Abstract Through creative and critical practice, this PhD makes an original contribution by developing theories of self-design in relation to understandings and creative representations of the post-punk movement. These materials inform the creative component of this PhD, a novel entitled   How I Left The National Grid   (hereafter,   HILTNG).   Broadly, speaking, the results, discussion and conclusion for the PhD are as follows: The term ‘self-design’ builds upon the research of Stephen Greenblatt (1980).   Greenblatt used the term ‘self-fashioning’ to ex...