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Miles Beard
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AMERICANITIS
published by Renard Press (UK) out now!
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Americanitis-by-Miles-Beard/9781804471043
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Americanitis
Following the death of his wife, Miles, an academic and hypochondriac suffering from acute anxiety, finds himself in need of professional help. Back in his nati
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April 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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do you like novels about erotic adventures?
Financial Times review of my novel: "The deracinated Scot at the centre of Americanitis by Miles Beard (Renard Press, £10) has a different but no less intense affinity with the US, where he pursues erotic adventures while ostensibly researching his doctoral thesis on jazz musician Charles Mingus. The novel purports to be the text written by “Miles Beard” at the behest of his therapist as he wrestles with guilt over the death of his wife, Sarah." Why not buy a copy? Available from blackwells.co.uk with free international shipping for around £10/$13
January 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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this is pretty much the plot of 'the unconsoled' by kazuo ishiguro
Boots, 'with the fur' @afraidofwasps (Realizing i zoned out for 15 years and have a family now without noticing) (Realizing l never committed my beautiful child's name to memory) You - (forgetting if we have hogs or not but going with my gut feeling) Feed them hogs
January 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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do you like novels about erotic adventures?
Financial Times review of my novel: "The deracinated Scot at the centre of Americanitis by Miles Beard (Renard Press, £10) has a different but no less intense affinity with the US, where he pursues erotic adventures while ostensibly researching his doctoral thesis on jazz musician Charles Mingus. The novel purports to be the text written by “Miles Beard” at the behest of his therapist as he wrestles with guilt over the death of his wife, Sarah." Why not buy a copy? Available from blackwells.co.uk with free international shipping for around £10/$13
January 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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December 26, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Very happy to have my novel AMERICANITIS included in this Edinburgh International Book Festival mailer!

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Find here: stay-up-all-night fiction, poetry to set a fire in you, nonfiction to give you hope. Where will you begin? An old favourite: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Hot off the press: Americanitis by Miles Beard A favourite from the 2024 Festival: My Friends by Hisham Matar Something poetic: With Love, Grief, and Fury by Salena Godden Brilliant nonfiction: History For Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric For young readers: The Stories Grandma Forgot by Nadine Aisha Jassat
September 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Very happy to have my novel AMERICANITIS included in this Edinburgh International Book Festival mailer!

mailchi.mp/edbookfest/i...
Find here: stay-up-all-night fiction, poetry to set a fire in you, nonfiction to give you hope. Where will you begin? An old favourite: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Hot off the press: Americanitis by Miles Beard A favourite from the 2024 Festival: My Friends by Hisham Matar Something poetic: With Love, Grief, and Fury by Salena Godden Brilliant nonfiction: History For Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric For young readers: The Stories Grandma Forgot by Nadine Aisha Jassat
September 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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The Daily Mail of all places 💅
AMERICANITIS by Miles Beard (Renard Press £10, 208 рр) I HAD a blast with this freewheeling debut about a widowed literary academic's breakdown. If you've ever delighted in the autofictional shenanigans of authors like Philip Roth and Paul Auster, you might love it, too. Those writers and many more are name-checked here - Auster's daughter, Sophie, is even a character. Our narrator - Miles, naturally - is a Scottish postgraduate recalling his sexual adventures in US lecture halls prior to the death of his wife, on whom he cheated flagrantly as he led a hectic double life using online aliases. Now he's writing about it all under the advice of his therapist. As questions sprout up about what's really happening and what isn't, the game-playing becomes increasingly frenzied, but Beard more than sustains frenzied, but Beard more than sustains his manic high-wire act in a book that lives on the strength of its satirical detail and rug-pulling glee.
August 16, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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The Daily Mail of all places 💅
AMERICANITIS by Miles Beard (Renard Press £10, 208 рр) I HAD a blast with this freewheeling debut about a widowed literary academic's breakdown. If you've ever delighted in the autofictional shenanigans of authors like Philip Roth and Paul Auster, you might love it, too. Those writers and many more are name-checked here - Auster's daughter, Sophie, is even a character. Our narrator - Miles, naturally - is a Scottish postgraduate recalling his sexual adventures in US lecture halls prior to the death of his wife, on whom he cheated flagrantly as he led a hectic double life using online aliases. Now he's writing about it all under the advice of his therapist. As questions sprout up about what's really happening and what isn't, the game-playing becomes increasingly frenzied, but Beard more than sustains frenzied, but Beard more than sustains his manic high-wire act in a book that lives on the strength of its satirical detail and rug-pulling glee.
August 16, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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