Chad Taylor: 6 books

"You gamble, you believe in luck. Like if you're swimming, you believe in water. Right?" Robert Marling is on a losing streak. He's a struggling architect with a gambling problem, and a wife who is suing him for divorce. When he meets Heaven, a transexual streetwalker who glimpses...

Three short stories by Chad Taylor: 'Here She Comes Now', 'Close to You' and 'DIN.'

Five short stories by Chad Taylor, first published 1988-1990 'The Man at the Door,' 'Geisha', 'Two Friends', 'Girl from Mars' and 'Rusty Blades'.

A burglar's theft of Hokusai's Great Wave sends her into the wake of the Japan tsunami. Aurélie is a fast-paced, tightly plotted modern noir short story from the author of the novels Shirker, Electric, Heaven and Departure Lounge. Earlier reviews of Chad Taylor's writing: • "Smart,...

"In the beginning conversation was something that kept your brain from admitting that your body was doing all the work." Carrie Factor and Louis Cloud smash into each other hundreds of times a second: exploding and rebuilding themselves, breaking down, rising up. They are obsessive,...

A new edition of the original 1995 collection The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself with new cover art by Christchurch artist Ian Dalziel. The collection features 12 short stories: 'Running Hot & Cold', 'Calling Doctor Dollywell', 'The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself', 'Fire in the Hole', 'Archie...