Darren Allen – författare

"Very funny, odd, clever, brimming with interesting characters and excellent dialogue... I can''t stop thinking about it."

Terry Gilliam

Fired is a burlesque epic set in a world out of joint. It is a heroic journey of self-discovery, a study of contemporary minds at the endof their tether, a salt-in-the-eye satire of the dystopian modern world, a heartbreaking outpouring of grief for the condition of creatures in existence, an anarchic vision of comic madness, a good old fashioned supernatural love-story, and a situational comedy, in the tradition of British losers gloriously, pointlessly and pathetically fighting a battle they cannot win. 

Why is the world so mad? Why is everyone so unhappy?

What''s the point of it all? What on earth is going on?

It''s all over bar the shouting, but fear not dear friends,

Modra the Monkey God has some good news...

The Fire Sermon is a straightforward guide to the human condition, the insane world we live in, and how to free yourself from both. It explains the real reason why everyone is so bored, the cause of your suffering, why the world turns people into machines, what death is, how to locate your conscience and take passionate action. The Fire Sermon is painful and beautiful, easy to understand and terrible to grasp, a kind of agony and a kind of ecstasy; the kind of gift that only the oldest gods can give you: apocalyptic optimism.

''Who am I?'' Such an easy question; and yet I keep getting it wrong.

An original, wide-ranging and accessible philosophy of all and everything, presenting a synthesis of metaphysics, science, psychology, art, sex, gender, character, culture and history. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, objective nor subjective, theist nor atheist, Self and Unself expresses the unfathomable paradox at the root of all branches of human experience, providing a new, radical ground of understanding, and solving, en route, all the actually important questions of philosophy; who I am, who you are, why we are here and what on earth is going on.

Everything? Yes, nothing.

Why are philosophers and scientists baffled by reality?

Why must the mediocre man rely on method?|

Why do the realest times of our lives feel unreal?

Why do women value men who ''don''t take themselves seriously''?

Why do we find masks so terrifying?

Why doesn''t the anxious mind get the joke?

Why do people never suffer for the reasons they think they do?

Why do people cling to absurd beliefs?

Why did we build this god-awful world?

Why am I still discontent?

Why am I still here?

Self and Unself solves these, and many other mysterious whys, by laying bare the what that lies behind them.

It is so much better than you think.

It is so much worse than you think.

In the perfect dystopian system, the prison and the prisoners are one.

A radical guide to the entire system in its final, most developed form. 33 Myths of the System takes apart the fabrications of all the ideologies of the system, exposing the iniquitous fictions at the heart of socialism, capitalism, professionalism, postmodernism, scientism, economics, psychology, technocratic progress and the anti-culture that the system presents to us as meaning.

33 Myths of the System presents a revolutionary new way to perceive, understand and deal with the unhappy supermind that directs, penetrates and even lives our lives.

''Angry. Funny. Nightmarish. ArseHole-ish. Painful and sad ...a tremendously smart, darkly comic, and surprisingly moving tale of life in today''s London. It will definitely get your head spinning. You may even discover it''s your own life in print...''''

Terry Gilliam

Danny Hickman will do whatever it takes to become a great artist. He escapes from a meaningless job by fabricating mental illness and he escapes from an equally meaningless art scene by fabricating tiny clay heads. But nothing seems to give him the freedom he craves.

A chance encounter with a Russian criminal followed by one of the more bizarre of Daniel''s romantic failures leads him to an unusual and psychologically liberating evening with a prostitute which, in turn, leads to an emotional armageddon that threatens to literally obliterate him.

Drowning is Fine, is the tragi-comic coming-of-age story of Daniel Hickman, a young man struggling to survive as a sane man in love and an artist in dystopian London; goals which turn out to be two aspects of the same apocalyptic mission-to see the world as it is, in all its sordid beauty.