The Nettleham Gentlemen's Club
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Overview
This book introduces readers to The Nettleham Gentlemen’s Club, a collection of the bizarre, the inane, and the borderline bonkers. We meet Humpty Dumpty’s fat egg brother, Victor Drake, who inhales gin rickeys and cocktail sausages with the voracity of a starving vacuum cleaner. There’s Clarence Constable, a gentleman with a pathological inability to negotiate a cheese counter, and Charles Bumbridge, an individual with a finely tuned dislike of eggs and who cannot properly deliver his own favourite joke. They are joined by Henry Calming, a dedicated late evening walker (precisely at 10:00 p.m.) who sits by the window, sips his drink, and plays cards. There are nine in all--a collection of odd and idiosyncratic individuals who belong to a club to which, perhaps, no one else wishes to be admitted. Is there some overarching theme to their saga? Perhaps the docile joys of old age and a sagacious acceptance of death/the afterlife? Regardless, it never hurts to read a superbly crafted and odd story.
“The Nettleham Gentleman’s Club marks another dive into
the weird and wonderful mind of Charles Johns. Quirky, offbeat,
imaginative, and thought-provoking. Mr. Johns strikes again!”
—Arthur Fogartie, Freelance Editor, Upwork
“The Nettleham Gentleman’s Club is like a party you’re
invited to where you meet a group of most interesting and fun
people and leave after too short a time, wishing you’ll meet
again.”
—Andrew McLuhan, Director, The McLuhan Institute
“The Nettleham Gentlemen’s Club is a fictional exploration
of mystery through abundance, of character through absence, and of
depth through the surface.”
—Brian Willems, author of Henry, Henry: A Novella
- Title: The Nettleham Gentlemen's Club
- Author: Charles William Johns
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666716429, 9781666716405, 9781666716412, 1666716421, 1666716405, 1666716413
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666716429
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T06:40:36Z
Charles William Johns is an affiliate researcher at the
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, and is a member of many
committees such as the Sartre Studies International Journal
and the Journal of International Comparative Literature. His
philosophical work has been heralded by many and is directly
associated with the speculative realist movement in contemporary
philosophy. His fictional work has piqued interest from the likes
of Julian Barnes and D. M. Thomas and is generally associated with
the new sincerity movement. The Nettleham Gentlemen’s Club marks
his eighth book at the age of thirty-three.